Lobe it or leave it
The largest structure in the brain, divided into two hemispheres, each with two lobes.
What is the cerebral cortex?
The brain is made up of billions of these.
What are neurons?
The "mini brain". Helps with movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
This method has electrodes all over the scalp.
What is an EEG?
This disorder results in your senses being confused with one another.
What is synesthesia?
The lobe of the brain responsible for hearing and language
What is the temporal lobe?
The part of a neuron that receives signals from another nerve cell.
What are dedrites?
This part of the forebrain controls functions like hunger, thirst, sexual behaviour, and temperature regulation.
What is the hypothalamus?
This scan looks at blood flow and oxygen consumption, to study both structure and function.
This disease causes a decline in memory and cognitive abilities.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
The lobe with parts that are the last to develop.
What is the frontal lobe?
The space between two neurons.
What is the synapse?
This structure serves as the only point of communication between the two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This type of scan employs radioactively tagged chemicals in the brain to study blood flow.
What is a PET scan?
A disease where you would not be able to recognize the face of your best friend.
What is prosopagnosia?
The lobe of the brain responsible for receiving sensory information.
What is the parietal lobe?
The burst of electrical activity that travels down a neuron.
What is an action potential?
This structure allows you to form new memories, and is important for long term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Scientists create these on the brain in order to study function associated with that area.
What are lesions?
This degenerative movement disease is linked with a decline in neural connections in areas of the brain associated with movement.
What is Parkinson's disease?
The lobe of the brain responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
These are released into the synapse and pass the signal from one neuron to another.
What are neurotransmitters?
This system is made up of the hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala, and hippocampus.
What is the limbic system?
Multiple x-ray images are shot of the brain and allow us to see structure of a horizontal section of the brain.
What is a CT?
This disorder resulting from damage to the temporal lobe results in the inability to be understood when you are speaking.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?