Brain Imaging Techniques
Connections
Unconscious CNS
Effective Teaching Techniques
Brainy Humor
100
An electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light.
What is an X-Ray?
100
What happens when a new synaptic connection occurs?
What is learning?
100
Carries messages between the brain and the body.
What is the spinal cord?
100
A core strategy used by teachers to help students that involves using visuals.
What is pairing graphics with words?
100
What happens when your brain sees a friend across the street?
What is it gives a brain wave?
200
A procedure that uses radio waves, a powerful magnet, and a computer to make a series of detailed pictures of areas inside the body.
What is an MRI?
200
Excitatory or inhibitory chemical messanger
What is a neurotransmitter?
200
The key to balance, maintenance of body posture, and coordination of muscle function.
What is the cerebellum?
200
Summative and formative assessments are used to boost what?
What is retention?
200
Why did the brain refuse to take a bath?
What is it didn’t want to be brainwashed?
300
A diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce images of the inside of the body.
What is a CAT Scan?
300
Three factors that create and form a faster neural network.
What are experiences, novelty, and repetition?
300
This brain structure is in a strategic position to act as a relay station to direct the flow of information between the sense organs and the cortex.
What is the thalamus?
300
Alternating these types of problems will help students in the classroom.
What are solved and unsolved problems?
300
What do you call a human skull without a hundred billion neurons?
What is a no-brainer?
400
An imaging test that can help reveal the metabolic or biochemical function of your tissues and organs.
What is a PET Scan?
400
The brain is shaped by not only its inherited genetic code but also by its environment.
What is neuroplasticity?
400
Controls the functions necessary for homeostasis.
What is the hypothalamus?
400
It is important to link these two kinds of concepts.
What are abstract and concrete concepts?
400
How much money do you have when you combine touch, vision, smell, hearing, and taste?
What is five sense?
500
A recording of brain activity
What is an EEG (Electroencephalogram)?
500
Where are neurotransmitters generated?
What is the cell body or axon terminals?
500
This part of the brain plays a major role in the control of emotions.
What is the amygdala?
500
These types of questions will help students think more critically about the topic at hand.
What are probing questions?
500
What did the Hollywood film director say after he finished making a movie about myelin?
What is that's a wrap?