Lobes of the Brain
This lobe is responsible for receiving and processing visual information and sending it to other parts of the brain for further storage.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
Cannot be used in patients with metal devices.
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging? (MRI)
This part of the nerve cell receives incoming nerve impulses.
What is the dendrite?
This structure is located in the back of the brain and controls posture, balance and body movement.
What is the Cerebellum?
What factor would prevent a patient from being a candidate for MRI?
What is metal / magnetic sensitive item?
This lobe is responsible for voluntary movement (Primary Motor Cortex), reasoning, decision-making, judgement, appropriate behavior and personality.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
This technique creates cross-sectional images of the brain by passing x-ray beams through the head.
Shows anatomy, but NOT physiology
What is a Computed Tomography Scan? (CT Scan)
This part of the nerve cell carries messages AWAY from the neuron and can be up to 3 feet long.
What is the axon?
What is the Blood Brain Barrier?
This is another word for neuron cell body.
What is soma?
What is the Temporal Lobe?
This imaging technique detects radioactive material that has been injected into the body.
Provides an image of brain activity (function).
What is a Positron Emission Tomography Scan?
(PET Scan)
This part of the nerve cell contains the DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This structure is the location in the brain where the left and right optic nerves cross.
What is the Optic Chiasm?
This lobe of the brain creates a map of body position.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This lobe of the brain contains the Primary Sensory Cortex.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This imaging technique uses radiofrequencies and magnetic fields to detect changes in the direction of blood flow in the brain.
Displays anatomy and physiology of the brain.
What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging?
(fMRI)
This part of the nerve cell insulates and protects, causing the nerve impulse to travel faster.
What is Myelin Sheath?
This structure controls heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, and some reflexes (coughing, sneezing, vomitting).
What is the Medulla Oblongata?
This structure is a large band of nerve fibers that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
This side of this lobe is responsible for understanding language.
What is Left Temporal?
This technique is often used to diagnose epilepsy, sleep disorders and brain injury by detecting electrical activity in the brain.
What is Electroencephalogram? (EEG)
This is a chemical-electrical substance that crosses the synapse as a nerve impulse moves from one neuron to another.
What is neurotransmitter?
This structure regulates breathing and is a relay station between the Cerebellum and the Cortex.
What is the Pons?
The age when the Frontal Lobe is fully developed in a human.
What are mid-20's?