Brainstorms! Your Central Nervous System

The Amazing Brain

100

Let's us move and be coordinated, know what we are touching, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and respond accordingly and think, learn, understand, and remember

Brain

200

Tells heart to pump, stomach to digest food and glands to sweat

Brain Stem

300

Smart, makes decisions, thinking

Cerebrum

400

Human "Switchboard"

Thalamus

500

Emotions and Regulate Temperature

Hypothalamus

Many Ways to Learn

100

Learn by seeing

Picture smart

200

Learn through music

Musical Smart

300

Learn by doing

Body smart

400

Learn BY THEMSELVES

Intrapersonal

500

Learn by discussing WITH OTHERS

Interpersonal

Sending Signals

100

Done without thought, do not go to your brain, done super fast, controlled by your spinal cord

Reflex Action

200

Send messages from the senses to the brain

Sensory Neurons

300

Sends messages from the brain to the muscles and glands

Motor Neurons

400

Messages enter the neurons through ______ . They can only pick up the messages. 

Dendrites

500

Messages leave the neurons through ______. They can only send messages. 

Axons

Drugs and the damage they do

100

Causes clumsy, unfocused, violence

Drugs

200

What are these steps called? 

1. Identify and avoid risky situations.

2. Say “NO!” with your words and your body; give a reason if you want.

3. Leave the situation.

4. Report to a trusted adult.

Refusal Steps

300

Slow down the messages going from one neuron to the next (barbiturates, alcohol, inhalants, marijuana)

Sedatives

400

Speed up the messages going from neuron to neuron (caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, crack, amphetamines, meth)

Stimulants

500

Distort, or mix-up, the messages traveling along the nerves (LSD, mescaline, certain types of cactus and mushrooms)

Hallucinogens

Injuries and Disorders

100

Most brain injuries can be prevented by wearing a _____. 

Helmet

200

When a bump is so hard to the head that the brain actually knocks against the bony skull causing dizziness, nausea, headache and blurred vision

Concussion

300

Another word for a fight

Conflict

400

Epilepsy, Autism, Stroke, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and Seizures are all types of what

Brain Disorders

500

What are these steps called? 

1. What is the conflict?

2. What do I want? What do you want?

3. How are our wants alike? How are our wants different?

4. What are possible solutions?

5. What predictions can we make about each possible solution?

6. Which solution meets our needs best?

Conflict Resolution Steps