What is the age group your myelin fibre grows within?
What is childhood to mid twenties
100
what can you take to help prevent alzheimers?
What is omega 3
100
the sleep in which you dream is called what?
What is REM sleep
100
When participants of the neuronal connections study began to decline in intelligence, what did they (the doctors) do?
What is a 5 hour training session
100
name a point on the importance of plasticity.
(ANSWERS MAY VARY)
200
When do you reach your "peak"?
What is about 39
200
the brain is ____% developed in the teenage years
What is 80%
200
what are the 5 stages of sleep?
What is 1,2,3,4,& REM
200
What is pruning?
What is when neuronal connections that arnt used fall away.
200
Intelligence is largely inpacted by memory loss. True or False
What is False.
300
Why do you start to lose Mylenation?
What is your brain losing nessesary fights it needs to repair myelin fibres.
300
We have less emotional reactivity when?
What is when we are younger
300
teenage brains release the hormone ________, later than adults.
What is melatonin
300
what is the point of connection called?
What is a synapse.
400
what does myelin fibres look like?
What is white fatty fibres?
400
DHA supplementation not only ______ memory in cases of Alzheimer’s disease but has also been shown to improve age-related memory loss as well. fill in the blank.
What is improves
400
teenagers have a ______, which detrmines when they sleep.
What is biological clock.
400
Define neuronal connections
What is the connection of neurons in the brain.
400
As a person ages, ________, the brain's nerve cells, die off and don't reproduce as quickly. Fill in the blank.
What is Neurons.
500
Whats the job of Myelination?
What is increase speed at which impulses pass along mylin fibre.
500
Scans showed________ interactions between the amygdala, a brain region involved in ____ __________, and the anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region involved in emotion control... fill in the blanks.
What is Increased & emotion detection
500
during stage 4, the brain produces________
What is delta waves.
500
a variety of molecules, including _______, ________,& ___________, populate the synapse.
What is carbohydrates, protiens and neurotransmitters.
500
Loss of memory is caused by what changes in the brain