Neurotransmitters
What neurotransmitter is known as the happiness hormone?
Dopamine
This is the master gland.
Pituitary Gland
Claustrophobia
Name all of the worlds continents
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
A neurotransmitter that acts as a natural pain reliever and mood booster?
Endorphins
What structure is in the middle of your brain and connects the right to left hemispheres (sides)?
The Corpus Callosum
What are you afraid of if you have Astrophobia?
Fear of space and stars
the process by which our brains interpret and organize sensory information, allowing us to understand and respond to the world around us
Perception
What is Montana's state flower?
Bitterroot
Neurotransmitter that plays a role in social bonding, reproduction, and childbirth?
Oxytocin (Love Hormone)
What is the function of the amygdala?
Emotional processing
What are you afraid of if you have Arithmophobia?
Numbers
Name the 4 stages of sleep in order
NREM, NREM2, NREM3, REM
What is the most popular sport in India?
Cricket
This neurotransmitter stimulate your body’s response by increasing your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure. It also heightens attention.
Epinephrine
This part of the body regulates body temperature, controls hunger and thirst, and is located above the pituitary gland.
Hypothalamus
Name the 4 types of drugs
Hallucinogens, stimulants, opiates, depressants
Name 4 of the Great Lakes
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie or Ontario
What is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system?
Glutamate
What structure is a part of your brainstem and handles unconscious processes and jobs, such as your sleep-wake cycle and breathing?
The Pons
What is Xenophobia?
Fear of anything foreign or strange
What is the difference between Broca's area and Wernicke's area?
Broca's is the creation of speech while Wernicke's the comprehension of speech.
Solve the Riddle:
The person who makes it has no need for it; the person who buys it has no use for it; and the person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin