3 membranes that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord: made up of connective tissue.
What are Meninges?
100
The brain controls the movements and the way a human thinks. It effects the daily lives of a human.
How does the brain control the human body?
100
Brain Aneurysm.
An artery in the brain develops a weak area that swells, balloon-like. What is the symptom of the condition mentioned?
100
Leeches have 32 brains.
What are Leeches?
200
largest part of the brain with connections to all parts of the body.
What is the Cerebrum?
200
Area that relays nerve signals to cerebral cortex.
What are Thalamus's?
200
The brain uses up most blood.
What part of the body uses up a lot of blood?
200
Blood flow and oxygen are suddenly interrupted to an area of brain tissue, which then dies. A blood clot, or bleeding in the brain, are the cause of most strokes.
How are strokes (brain infarctions) caused?
200
Sea squirts are mindless so they eat their own brains.
What animal eats their own brain?
300
The part of the brain that sits at the back of your head, under the cerebrum and controls coordination and balance.
What is the Cerebellum?
300
Called the "master gland" controls many other glands.
What are Pituitary gland?
300
The brain accounts of 2 percent of the total body weight yet it needs 20 percent of the body's blood.
What organ accounts 2 percent of the body weight?
300
Brain tumors are any abnormal tissue growth inside the brain. Whether malignant (cancer) or benign, brain tumors usually cause problems by the pressure they exert on the normal brain.
What has an abnormal tissue growth?
300
Dolphins have a larger brain than humans and remember things well.
What kind of mammal has larger brains than humans?
400
The part of the Brain that sits beneath your cerebrum in front of your cerebellum and connects the brain to the spinal cord and controls automatic functions such as breathing, digestion, heart rate and blood pressure.
What is the Brain Stem?
400
Largest of several bundles of nerve fibres that connect the 2 brains hemispheres
What is a Corpus callosum?
400
The protection of the brain is shielded by 3 protective membranes that envelope it, and the ventricles in the brain produce a watery medium within the skull known as cerebrospinal fluid that absorbs and disperses excessive mechanical forces which might otherwise cause serious injury.
What has 3 protective membranes that envelope it?
400
Alzheimer’s disease happen when nerves in certain brain areas decay, causing progressive dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia.
What causes progressive dementia?
400
Woodpeckers have air pockets in their brains, that's why their skulls aren't damaged when they bump into hard surfaces.
What kind of bird has air pockets in their skulls?
500
The part of the Brain that is a cluster of structures in the center of the brain and coordinate messages between multiple other brain areas.
What is the Basal Ganglia?
500
Situated under the thalamus; has many important functions including regulating body temperature and controlling the autonomic nervous system.
What is Hypothalamus?
500
The cerebrum is partly separated into 2 halves by the deep longitudinal fissure.
What is the part that is partly separated into 2 halves?
500
Parkinson's disease happen when nerves in a central area of the brain decay slowly, causing problems with movement and coordination. A tremor of the hands is a common early sign.
What is the name of the disease that takes away control over muscles, and nerves?
500
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel's have smushed brains because their skulls are too small.