Medical Scans
What is an EEG?
Measures brain wages, used to diagnose sleep disorders
What is neurogenesis?
The brain can repair itself by forming new neurons
What is the frontal lobe?
The front door to complex thinking. Higher order thinking, critical thinking, judgement, long term plans, goal setting. Also involves movement and speaking
What is the Hippocampus?
Memory; I will never forget the day I saw a hippo on my high school campus.
When the neurotransmitters come back home
What is a MRI?
Scans the structure of the brain
What is the dendrite?
The trees, receive the message
What is the occipital lobe?
Vision. Ollie the spider (8 eyes)
What is Broca’s Area?
Makes words
What controls arousal?
The reticular formation. Re-tickle- formation
What is a fMRI?
Scans for function and structure.
What is the myelin Sheath?
Gives life support to cells.
What is the temporal lobe?
Hearing! Like tempo for music
What do all senses, except smell, go through?
The Thalamus
What is the wrinkly part of the brain, and what does it do?
Cerebral cortex; information is processed. Texas hat on head.
What is a CAT scan?
X-ray of brain, tissue, and bone.
What are glial cells?
gives nutrients to nerve cells
What is the corpus callosum?
Connects the two hemispheres like a highway. Callosum is two people fighting.
What does the Hypothalamus do?
4 f’s
food (hunger)
fight or flight
Fahrenheit (temp)
Fornication (sexual arousal)
involves hormones/controls the pituitary gland
Who is Micheal Gazzaniga?
Did split brain, left brain he can speak, right brain can draw. Cross wired.
What did Phineas Gage damage?
His frontal lobe.
What are interneurons?
What is the Parietal lobe?
All the senses EXCEPT smell (piranha fish bites you, you can feel it!!) top of head
What does the Amygdala do?
influences fear and aggression. Amy d Gala is an angry person, I fear her.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Myelin sheath starts to break down.