What two anatomical structures does the brain stem connect?
What is the spinal cord and the brain?
100
What is serotonin?
Which neurotransmitter influences our moods?
100
What is the function of the cerebellum?
What is cordination, control and fine tuning of all skeletal muscle contractions?
100
What is the part of the brain responsible for conscious thought?
What is the cerebral cortex?
100
What area of the brain is associated with fear?
What is the amygdala?
200
What is the part of the brain stem that controls consciousness, muscle tone, and attention span?
What is the reticular formation?
200
What is Dopamine?
This neurotransmitter influences learning and feelings of pleasure, which one is it?
200
What does an MRI do?
This test disrupts the spinning atoms of brain molecules and measures their location when they start spinning again through the use of magnets and radio waves.
200
What is the part of the cerebrum responsible for subconscious motor control?
What is the motor cortex?
200
What area of the brain helps us to remember facts?
What is the hippocampus?
300
Which brain cells carry nutrients and myelin?
What are glial cells?
300
What is glutamate?
This neurotransmitter influences memory, which one is it?
300
What brain structure helps you judge time?
What is the cerebellum.
300
What is the function of the cerebrum that detects and perceives body stimuli?
What is sensory function?
300
Which area is associated with pleasure and reward?
What is the hypothalamus?
400
What is the main "brain food", how much supply does it need?
What is glucose, 20% of body's supply?
400
What is the synaptic gap?
This is the space between a sending axon terminal and receptor sites on the receiving neuron, what is this called?
400
What does the cerebellum help to regulate?
What is posture and balance? Coordinates movements.
400
What are the association areas?
What areas house the the ability to recognize things and construct new meanings?
400
When a person loses her sight, she may start to hear better. What property of the brain allows this to happen?
What is plasticity?
500
What two body functions are in the brain stem?
What are heartbeat and breathing?
500
What are endorphins?
This neurotransmitter was discovered when researchers attached a radioactive transmitter to morphine.
500
What is an unconscious memory or implicit memory?
Riding a bike is an example of something that might be stored a a memory in the cerebellum, what type of memory might this be called?
500
What is the part of the brain that controls subconscious contractions of muscles (e.g. automatic arm swinging)
What is the motor cortex?
500
Which lobe of the cortex is associated most with vision?