What is the oldest part of the brain that controls automatic survival functions?
100
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, and Occipital.
What are the four lobes of the brain?
100
Your brain is divided into these two parts
What is the left and right hemispheres?
100
The ability of your brain to change in response to normal development, damage, or experience.
What is Brain Plasticity?
200
Structure and Function of your Brain
What do brain scans show?
200
Lower-level brain structure that controls basic life support functions such as heartbeat, breathing, circulation, and swallowing.
What is the medulla?
200
This band of neural tissue connects your right and left hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
200
Language and speech are controlled by this hemisphere.
What is the left hemisphere?
200
When doctors sever the corpus callosum between the left and right hemispheres.
What is split-brain operation?
300
Recording the waves of electrical activity in your brain
What is an EEG?
300
The "little brain" attached to the brainstem that controls voluntary movements and balance.
What is the Cerebellum?
300
The part of your cerebral cortex that enables your most higher-ordering thinking -- judgement, planning, impulse control.
What is your frontal lobe?
300
This area is located in your frontal lobe and it helps you make the muscle movements in your mouth that allow you to speak. If this area is damaged, you have "broken" speech.
What is Broca's area?
300
This is a part of your limbic system and controls emotions.
What is the amygdala?
400
John McClusky
What is the name of the Arizona man that received a shortened sentence due to the results on his brain scans?
400
The ring of structures on the border of the Brainstem that include the hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala.
What is the Limbic System?
400
This part of your cerebral cortex includes the somatosensory cortex and your general association areas that allow for processing information and integrating memories.
What is the parietal lobe?
400
This area is located in your left temporal lobe that helps you understand language and the meaning of sentences created with those words. If you have damage in
What is Wernicke's area?
400
This band of nerves in the brainstem that control wakefulness and arousal.
What is the reticular formation?
500
Shows the path of blood flow in the brain
What is a PET or fMRI?
500
It is your brain's sensory switchboard that receives information and distributes it to the region of the brain for processing.
What is the thalamus?
500
This area is located in your frontal lobe and responsible for controlling voluntary movements.
What is the motor cortex?
500
Inability to understand or formulate speech, typically due to damage in the Broca and Wernicke area of your brain.
What is aphasia?
500
Sochi, Russia
What is where the 2014 Winter Olympics are taking place?