Lobes
This lobe is needed for planning, decision-making, and reasoning.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Digital dementia is often caused by spending more than this many hours per day on electronic devices.
What is seven hours?
This mild brain injury typically results in no permanent damage, though it may temporarily disrupt brain function.
What is a Concussion?
This is the length of a single full sleep cycle, after which the process repeats.
What is 90 to 110 minutes?
This ability of the Reticular Formation allows someone to focus on a textbook even while a television is making noise in the background.
What is Sensory Filtering?
This lobe processes visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This fatty substance undergoes rapid expansion to join and coordinate activities in different parts of the brain.
What is myelin?
This occurs when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures, depriving tissue of oxygen.
What is a CVA (Stroke)?
The length of the very first REM phase of the night.
What is 10 minutes?
When the RF ceases to function, a person enters this state where the cerebral cortex cannot be aroused.
What is a Coma?
This lobe is responsible for speech recognition, face recognition, word recognition, and memory formation.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Digital dementia is characterized by overstimulation of this side of the brain which leavs the other side underdeveloped.
What is the left side?
These "mini-strokes" serve as a warning sign; symptoms like slurred speech or numbness vanish within 24 hours.
What is a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack)?
This physical change in brain cells allows the "mental detox" to occur, flushing away toxins between the cells.
What is contracting/shrinking?
This occurs when the RF receives a significant impulse, such as a sharp pain or a sudden loud noise, causing the cerebral cortex to transition from sleep to alertness.
What is arousal?
This lobe has inputs from multiple senses and helps to know where you are in a space.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
While physical brain development is complete at age 10, internal connections are not finished until this time of life.
What is the mid-20s?
This condition involves swelling of the brain due to an inflammatory response, which can be fatal by compressing brain tissue.
What is Cerebral Edema?
This sleep stage is where neurons regenerate and long-term memories are solidified.
What is Stage 4 - REM?
This brain region makes up roughly 17% of the brain and receives the "filtered" data allowed through by the RF.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
This lobe receives inputs from the Parietal Lobe working to help with hand-eye coordination and eye movements.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Risky decision-making in teens is often blamed on a less developed frontal lobe and this active, emotional control center.
What is the amygdala?
This disease involves the destruction of anterior horn motor neurons.
What is ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)?
During REM sleep, the brain performs this task to help you learn and remember what happened during the day.
What is neural cleanup?
The RF is not a single organ but a complex network of these, located throughout the brainstem.
What are Nuclei?