The Brain
The three main parts of the nervous system
What are the brain, spinal cord, and nerves?
The part of the nervous system that contains the brain and the spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
The five basic tastes
What is sour, sweet, salty, bitter and umami?
A brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.
What is a CT scan? (Computed Tomography Scan)
The mascot for University of Minnesota
Who is Goldy Gopher?
The lobe responsible for interpreting and remembering auditory information such as music or speech?
What is the temporal lobe?
The cells provide transmission electrical and chemical signals that regulate all the processes in our body?
What are neurons?
The photoreceptor cells that allow the eye to detect black, white, gray shades
What are rods?
This technology uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
What is MRI? (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
The full name of Co-SIGN
Co-Student Interest Group in Neurology
The lobe that is still developing in teenagers and young adults.
What is the frontal lobe?
The junction between two neurons.
What is the synapse?
The bottom layer of the skin that the sense of touch originates.
What is the dermis?
This is characterized by excessive daytime, sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations.
What is narcolepsy?
The coach for the football team
The side of the brain that controls creative talents such as writing and drawing.
What is the right side of the brain?
The explosion of electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends information.
What is an action potential?
Hairlike structures that line the mucous membrane and move the particles trapped in the mucus out of the nose
What is cilia?
This is characterized by memory loss, dementia, depression, social withdrawal; plaques and tangles.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
The year that University of Minnesota was founded
What is 1851?
The part of the brain that stores memories and emotions
What is the hippocampus?
The system that involves involuntary responses to internal stimuli.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The shell shaped part of the inner ear which produces nerve impulses in response to sound vibrations.
What is the cochlea?
This is transmitted by ticks and is characterized by joint pains, chills, fever and headache.
What is Lyme disease?