Brain Regions
Brain Disease
Upstairs/Downstairs
Fun Facts!
Last Week Today
100
This region helps you balance and coordinate your movements
Cerebellum
100
Sudden lack of blood or bleeding into the brain is called what?
Stroke
100
Sensing FEAR is an upstairs or downstairs brain function?
Downstairs
100
When does the thinking brain fully mature?
Mid 20s
100
The heart has how many chambers?
4
200
This area regulates your heart rate and breathing
Brainstem
200
Hydrocephalus is where there is too much of what?
Cerebrospinal fluid (brain water!)
200
Solving a math problem is an upstairs or downstairs brain function?
Upstairs
200
What is this nerve doing?
200
The brain weighs _____ pounds
3
300
This area thinks! It also serves as your short term/working memory.
Frontal cortex (also ok: front of brain)
300
What causes Chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
Repeated head trauma
300
Hitting someone who made you angry is an upstairs or downstairs brain reaction?
Downstairs
300
Where neurons connect, this is called a __________?
Synapse
300
This organ MAKES urine, and this organ STORES it
The kidney and the bladder
400
This lobe is next to your ear
Temporal
400
Wearing a helmet prevents what kind of brain injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
400
Noticing your heart race and palms feel sweaty
Upstairs
400
Name an organ that contracts unconsciously
Heart, intestine, stomach, bladder, gallbladder, arterial blood vessels
400
Provide an example of how the largest organ in the body regulates body temperature
Sweating, shivering, hair standing up, flushing
500
This region is where your long term memories are stored
Hippocampus
500
This disease is caused by uncontrolled firing of neurons
Epilepsy
500
Why does meditation build your brain staircase?
It practices connecting your upstairs and downstairs brain
500
This part of a neuron promotes speedy transmission
Axon (also acceptable: white matter)
500
This part of the brain processes light into images to produce vision
Occipital lobe (also acceptable: back of the brain)