Brain Anatomy
This part of your brain is responsible for making decisions, thinking, and voluntary movement.
Cerebrum
What are two things the hypothalmus is responsible for?
Appetite, weight, temperature, hormone production are some examples.
The gap between neurons where messages where message are released to each other.
Synapse
This brain injury can occur when you hit your head. It can cause you to have signs and symptoms such as a headache, nausea, balance problems, and feeling tired.
Concussion
These types of drugs can change the way you feel and think. They can mess up your sensory nerves and motor nerves.
Illegal drugs
Dani got hit in the head with a basketball during the game. She gets up from the ground and is having a hard time with walking, balance, and coordination. What part of the brain was most likely injured? Where is it located?
Cerebellum. Back of the brain.
Messages enter through what part of the neuron.
Dendrites
This brain injury occurs prior to birth and is caused by the pregnant mother drinking alcohol.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
These types of drugs make the heart pump faster. Caffeine and nicotine are examples of this type of drug.
Stimulant
This part of the brain is responsible for vital functions of life. Vital functions are involuntary and are necessary to survive.
Brain Stem
The pituitary gland is the size of pea. What does it do?
Makes hormones and sends it to different part of the body. Types of pituitary hormones help with growth, blood sugar, and puberty as some examples.
Nerve cells are called.
Neurons
This brain injury is caused when there is blood clot that does not allow blood or nutrients to get to a part of the brain.
Stroke
These types of drugs slow down messages in the brain. Marijuana and alcohol are examples of these types of drugs.
Sedatives
To lobe or not to lobe that is the question... Which lobe of the brain might support your voluntary movements?
Frontal Lobe
What is the cerebellum's function?
Controls balance and coordination
If a cold ice cube or a pin stimulates a nerve to sense it through sensory nerves... then the ice cube or pin are called.
Stimuli
This can happen when your brain has too much brain activity. Also, epiliepsy is a type of this brain disorder.
Seizure
Brain cells and nerve cells can be destroyed by drugs. True or False. This means that once that cell is destroyed
True
The characters from the movie, Inside Out, might be big fans of this lobe found in the brain that is strongly connected to memories.
Temporal Lobe
What does the cerebrum do?
Thinking, memory, decision making, solving problems.
The brain and brain stem are connected to a nerve center called the...
Spinal cord
This disorder occurs when the myelin that covers the axon of neuron breaks down. The fat is replaced with scar patches.
Multiple Sclerosis.
If someone is struggling with drugs, who are three good resources to reach out to?
Parents, teachers, doctors, nurses, etc...