Fast Facts
The age the brain is fully developed
What is 25?
The lobe that is primarily responsible for vision and spatial processing.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
The stage of development when the limbic system is very active
What is adolescence?
Feelings of attraction are produced by these.
What are hormones and neurotransmitters?
Nuerotransmitters are chemicals exchanged from these.
What are neurons?
The average human brain weighs.
What is 3 pounds?
The lobe responsible for reasoning, problem solving,impulse, and movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
Part of the brain that allows people to experience emotions, fall in love, store memories and react to situations.
What is the limbic system?
Nuerotransmitter that can induce feelings of intense euphoria for the person attracted to.
What is dopamine?
Enormous changes of these take place during adolescence.
What are hormonal changes?
Consumes this percentage of the body's energy
What is 20%?
The lobe that houses language and auditory sounds, and helps process some memories.
What is the temporal lobe?
Part of the limbic system responsible for anger and fear response.
What is the amygdala?
The hormone or neurotransmitter that helps create a feeling of closeness, often called the "cuddle hormone".
What is Oxytocin?
The place where two neurons meet.
What is a synapse?
Genes, childhood experience, and the environment a person grows up in.
What shapes behavior?
The lobe that processes sensory information like touch, temperature, and pain.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
The control center for the body's hormone system.
What is the hypothalamus?
The hormone or neurotransmitter that increases sexual desire in males and females.
What is testosterone?
The stage of human development with with the greatest capacity to learn.
What is early childhood? (0-5)
Nerve cells that exchange information with each other.
What are nuerons?
Form of child abuse that can result in permanent brain damage or death.
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
This healthful practice helps bring people into the present and calm the amygdala so the prefrontal cortex can come back online.
What is mindfulness?
PEA, Adrenaline, Testosterone, Oxytocin, and Dopamine are brain chemicals that create a physical state.
What is love potion?
Substance Abuse, lack of sleep, and stress all have a negative affect on the teen brain causing this imbalance.
What is a chemical imbalance?