What does the brain do?
A complex organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger and every process that regulates our body.
What is the brain?
This controls blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, and digestion
What is the medulla?
A brain doctor
What is a neurologist?
This type of scan detects brain waves, used in sleep research
What is an EEG?
Information messengers
What are neurons?
This part of the brain controls fine motor skills.
What is the cerebellum?
A sudden loss of body control.
What is a seizure?
This medical technique provides a detailed structure of the brain's soft tissue
What is an MRI?
What does the left side of the brain control?
This part of the brain controls aggression and fear, coordinates "fight or flight" response.
What is the amygdala?
A drug that affects neurotransmitters called dopamine and causes intense happiness and energy
What is cocaine?
A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This side of the brain controls creative talents like writing and drawing.
What does the right side of the brain control?
Largest lobes in the brain
What are the frontal lobes?
This drug may affect how the brain builds connections for functions like attention, memory, and learning.
What is marijuana?
These patients whose corpus callosums have been cut and are unable to say what they see in their left visual field because speech is in the left hemisphere.
Who are split brain patients?
the brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or building new pathways based on experience
(i.e. learning a new language)
What is brain plasticity?
This area of the brain interprets written and spoken speech.
What is Wernicke's Area?
This substance makes it harder for the brain areas controlling balance, memory, speech, and judgment to do their jobs.
What is alcohol?
Who is Michael Gazzaniga?