Brain Tools & Technology
This dynamic picture of the brain gives details of localization of brain activity via a radioactive glucose transmitted via IV or cup.
What is PET scan?
What is Visual Centre?
Regulates the heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
This is considered primarily a female hormone that regulates the menstrual cycle as well as gives the ability to nurture others.
What is estrogen?
This type of research, although is largely considered unethical, was instrumental in learning about the influences of biological and environmental factors that affect behavior.
What are "Twin Studies"?
Great way to monitor brain waves all over the brain.
What is an EEG machine?
Located in the temporal lobes, this area serves as the primary auditory cortex in each brain hemisphere.
What is Auditory Centre?
This is the "sensory switchboard".
What is the thalamus?
Known for its involvement in making an individual feel a sense of well-being and happiness and is found in the gastrointestinal tract and in the brain.
What is Serotonin?
Animals have feelings.
Animals form attachments.
Animals should not suffer.
Animal lives matter, too.
What is "Something that animal activists might say when protesting animal experiments for the benefit of understanding human behavior"?
This takes a still picture of the brain using X-rays.
What is a CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan?
What is Language Centres?
This is the last part of the brain to mature. It is where you find personality, judgment, emotions, and impulsivity.
What is the frontal lobe?
High levels of this neurotransmitter are linked to the onset of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
This is the age-old psychological debate as to whether the environment or hereditary has the most influence on a person's behavior.
What is nature vs. nurture?
This is the more technical cousin to the scanning machine that uses radio frequency. It measures magnetization between oxygen-rich areas within the blood flow of the brain.
What is a fMRI?
What are Motor Centres?
The auditory nerve transmit neural information from the environment to this area of the brain.
What is the temporal lobe?
This is maintained by the pituitary gland and affects reproductive behavior as well as maternal behavior?
What is Oxytocin?
My grandfather was an angry man and killed a person with his bare hands. My father once barreled through a wall because he was so angry. I am regularly being suspended from school because I initiate and participate in fights on a weekly basis. As you can see, I got this anger issue honestly!
What is something that "someone who believes in genetics playing a dominate role in a person's behavior" might say?
Which two technologies would a doctor most likely use for a stroke patient?
What is a fMRI and PET scan?
Focused on sensory information that is positioned next to the motor cortex in the parietal lobe.
What is the Somatosensory Centre?
This area of the brain regulates a person's level of awareness and wakefulness. It enables a person to sleep, but if it is malfunctions, the person will experience insomnia.
What is the reticular formation?
This enables a heightened sense that provides for a "fight or flight" response.
What is "adrenaline"?
These chemical substances enable the enhancement of sexual attraction through bodily fluids (i.e. sweat, secretions, saliva, etc.).
What are pheromones?