True and False
The brain continues to grow and develop until about the age of 35
What is False
How many major lobes does the brain have and what are their names?
What is 4: frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal.
Memory loss, dementia, depression, social withdrawal, plaques and tangles are symptoms of _______ _____.
What is Alzheimer’s disease
Which fsu research lab studies working memory and cognitive control using techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
What is The Nee Lab
Electrical activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain electrodes.
What is EEG (Electroencephalography)
The brain itself cannot feel pain.
What is True
What are the 2 parts of the Nervous System?
What are the Peripheral and Central Nervous system
This class of drugs is commonly prescribed to those with depressive and anxiety disorders?
What are serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRIs).
What research lab looks at uncovering how electrical brain activity underlies cognitive control and becomes disrupted with psychiatric illness using EEG, fMRI, TMS, and tACS?
What is the Riddle lab
Uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
The brain is most active when we are in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep.
What is True
What is the process of coating neural axons called?
What is Myelination
Excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations are symptoms of
What is Narcolepsy
What research lab studies cognitive, behavioral, and biological processes in anxiety disorders, PTSD, problematic anger, and obsessive-compulsive and related disorders using computerized treatments?
What is the Cougle Lab
Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.
What is a CT scan (Computed Tomography Scan)
The human brain weighs about 1.5 pounds
What is False. It weighs around 3 pounds.
What connects the left and right hemisphere of the brain?
What is the corpus callosum?
Uncontrolled bursts of electrical activities that change sensations, behaviors, awareness and muscle movements are characteristics of _______.
What is epilepsy
What research lab studies behavioral, cognitive, and biological causes, correlates, and consequences of anxiety; assessment, treatment and prevention of anxiety pathology.
What is the Schmidt lab (ABHC)
Scanning method that detects radioactive material that is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain.
What is a PET (Positron Emission Tomography)
The brain is mostly made up of water and fat.
What is True
What part of the brain is responsible for the majority of emotional experiences?
What is the Limbic System
What is a brain disorder that causes unintended or uncontrollable movements, such as shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with balance and coordination that worsens over time.
What is Parkinson’s disease
What research lab studies genetic, molecular, cellular, and behavioral techniques in an evolutionary framework to understand the neurobiological mechanisms of social and affective behaviors in developing and mature mammals.
What is the Hammock Lab
A noninvasive form of brain stimulation in which a changing magnetic field is used to induce an electric current at a specific area of the brain through electromagnetic induction.
What is TMS (Transcranial magnetic stimulation)