The function of this brain structure is to regulate memory, emotion, and fear.
What is the Amygdala?
100
The name of the substance that wraps around an axon to act as an electrical insulator.
What is myelin?
100
All drugs of abuse act on this neurotransmitter.
What is Dopamine?
100
This term is used to describe a compulsive use of drugs or alcohol.
What is Addiction?
200
Which brain area is the very last to fully develop?
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
200
This brain structure is responsible for manufacturing the neurotransmitter Dopamine.
What is Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA)?
200
This is the name given to the electrical wave that goes from its initiation site at the cell body down the axon.
What is an action potential?
200
According to the film, this is the age range at which most addiction begins.
What is age 18-25?
200
Impulse control and decision making are located in this lobe of the brain
What is the Frontal Lobe?
300
This lobe of the brain is involved in memory, speech, and auditory stimuli.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
300
This brain structure is responsible for converting short term memories into more permanent memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
300
The name given to the space between two neurons.
What is a synapse?
300
The film states that this range of time is needed to see brain recovery from prolonged methamphetamine abuse.
What is one to two years?
300
This is the name of the man who had a tamping rod go through his brain and effected his personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
400
This is the name of the thick band of neural fibers that separates the two halves of the brain.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
400
This brain structure regulates basic vital functions such as, breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure.
What is the Brain Stem?
400
In general, neurons receive electrical information at this part of the neuron.
What is the dendrites?
400
The film states that this disease is the most costly to taxpayers.
What is Addiction?
400
The brain system that tells us to repeate a behavior because it is good for us or makes us feel good.
What is The Reward System?
500
This half of the brain is responsible for logic, reading and writing, rules, and boundaries.
What is the left half?
500
This brain structure helps control our levels of motivation by releasing Dopamine.
What is the Nucleus Accumbens?
500
This is a chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse and causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, a muscle fiber, or some other structure.
What is a neurotransmitter?
500
The man who died in the ER had been using this substance
What is marijuana?
500
This man damaged a specific part of his brain which resulted in him having no long term memory.