Brain Imaging Techniques
Structure of a Nerve Cell
Miscellaneous
Neurotransmitters
Nervous System
100

This type of brain imaging shows brain waves. 

What is EEG?

100

This part of the nerve cell is the main structure which is the cell's support center. 

What is the cell body or Soma? 

100

This is the term for the brains ability to change and adapt. 

What is neuroplasticity or brain plasticity? 

100

This neurotransmitter helps control arousal and alertness. 

What is nor-epinephrine? 

100

These neurons carry messages from the central nervous system out to the body's muscles. 

What are motor neurons? 

200

This brain imaging technique shows blood flow and chemical activity. 

What is a PET Scan?

200

This part of the nerve cell receives messages from other cells. 

What are dendrites? 

200

These are the two types of neuroplasticity. 

What are structural and functional?

200

This neurotransmitter affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal. 

What is serotonin? 

200

These neurons carry messages from the body’s tissues and sensory receptors inwards to the brain.

What are sensory neurons?

300

This brain imaging technique is an x-ray that shows the structure of the brain. 

What is a CT Scan?

300

This part of the nerve cell passes messages away from the cell body. 

What is the axon? 

300

This report has helped improve psychological testing and put the welfare of the subjects at the forefront of psychological study. 

What is the Belmont Report?

300

This neurotransmitter affects movement, learning, attention, and emotion. 

What is dopamine? 

300

This nervous system allows for voluntary control of our skeletal muscles. 

What is the somatic nervous system?

400

This type of brain imaging technique is unsurpassed in anatomical detail. 

What is an MRI? 

400

This part of the nerve cell helps speed up neural impulses. 

What is the myelin sheath? 

400

This part of the brain deals with breathing, digestion, and swallowing. 

What is the brain stem?

400

This neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory. 

What is acetylcholine (ACh)? 

400

This nervous system controls our glands and the muscles of our internal organs.

What is the autonomic nervous system? 

500

This type of brain imaging is an x-ray of the blood vessels.

What is an angiography? 
500

This part of the nerve cell forms junctions with other cells. 

What are terminals or terminal branches? 

500

This part of the brain deals with vision and color perception. 

What is the occipital lobe?

500

This neurotransmitter is linked to seizures, tremors and insomnia when it is under supplied. 

What is GABA? 

500

CNS stands for this. 

What is Central Nervous System?