Do you read your emails?
The name of the room we are in right now!
What is the Gonda Conference Room?
Latin word for "brain"
What is the cerebrum?
This man survived a pole going through is head, only to undergo a severe personality change.
Who is Phineas Gage?
The main wires of the brain.
What are axons?
Beginning in the 1900s, there has been a pop science belief that humans use only a certain amount of their brain. What percent of the brain did they believe you used (and is it true)?
10%
NO!
Name one article topic or GM theme that we have had this quarter.
What is:
Stress in the brain
Alcohol induced overeating
Emotion and the gut
The part of the brain used for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
This is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb (even an organ, like the appendix) is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts
What are phantom limbs?
A depolarization of axon cell membrane that allows the transfer of signal through neural pathways.
What are action potentials?
The most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's?
_ stress can have more of an effect on your brain than oxidative stress.
What is emotional stress?
REM stands for what.
What is rapid eye movement?
What is the inability to remember events prior to accident causing damage to the brain?
Retrograde Amnesia
The region where signals jump to from one neuron to another.
What are synapses or synaptic cleft?
100 years ago, what product was promoted as a cure for asthma (something we now know causes cancer)
What are cigarettes
Brain information travels up to an impressive how many miles per hour?
What is 268!
faster than a formula 1 race car that travels at 240 mph
The part of the brain that is involved in higher level planning and thinking, emotions, decision making, and social behavior.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is part of HM's brain that was removed by surgeons.
What are the left and right medial temporal lobes?
The main branch points of the neuron that receive a signal and transmit to the cell body.
What are dendrites?
In 1929, Princeton researchers created a telephone using this as a medium
What is a heavily sedated but living cat!
~done in order to test how the auditory nerve perceives sound
~cut out part of its brain and attached one end of a telephone wire to its auditory nerve and the other end to a receiver
~When Bray said something into the cat’s ears, Wever could hear him through the receiver in a soundproof room
~lead to the development of cochlear implants
People who procrastinate tend to have larger __
What is the amygdala?
This part of the brain is responsible for vital functions like breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure
What is the medulla (part of the brain stem)?
SM had extensive damage to the ______ in each hemisphere. When asked to identify photographs of a series of facial expressions, she couldn't recognize fear.
What is the amygdala?
The main supportive cells to neurons in the CNS and the PNS.
What are oligodenrocytes and schwann cells.
The name of the first man to describe a neuron (a term coined in 1891)
*Hint = his name is used to describe a neuron in the cerebellum
Who is Purkinjie?