Scans and Tests
What scan is used to measure brain's electrical activity (think sleep).
Which region of the brain is the oldest?
Where is the parietal lobe located?
What is severed to create a split brain patient?
What is the corpus callosum.
What does the left side of the brain control?
Rational, logical thoughts along with speech and words.
An MRI measures ______ as an fMRI measures ________.
What is soft tissue and blood-flow/structure and function.
Fight or flight is associated with which part of the brain?
What is the amygdala.
The hypothalamus is responsible for what?
Regulating hunger, thirst, body temperature, and sexual behavior.
What is the localization of activity or function in one side of the brain?
What is lateralization.
What does the right side control?
Images, emotions, intuition, drawing inferences.
How does an fMRI show brain activity?
By measuring the blood-flow to and within the brain.
What processes memory?
What is the hippocampus.
What is the term for the growth of new brain cells?
What is neurogenesis.
Neurosurgeons have severed the corpus callosum to reduce what?
What are epileptic seizures.
Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere reduces people's ability to do what?
What is speak fluently.
Which brain scan is able to show the differences in those who have schizophrenia?
What is an MRI.
Planning complex cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior are all controlled by what?
What is the prefrontal cortex.
A younger child has a better chance of recovering from a traumatic brain injury over an adult because of what?
What is brain plasticity.
If a word is presented in the left visual field, are you able to say it? Why or why not?
No, because language is processed by the left hemisphere, and the right hemisphere controls the left visual field.
What brain area is involved with reading aloud?
What is the angular gyrus.
A PET scan shows the brain's hot-spots by measuring what?
What is the consumption of sugar glucose.
Seeing a stick of dynamite and a lit match together mean nothing until they are associated together, what is responsible for putting them together?
What are association areas.
What cells feed and insulate nerve cells?
HE-ART was flashed on a screen. HE in the left visual field and ART in the right visual field. What did the patient point to when asked to point with their left hand?
What is HE.
Someone who has difficulty speaking after a stroke is experiencing what?
What is aphasia.