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Ill Will
100
This is available on the website for you to become an official part of Interaxon.
What is the membership form?
100
Latin word for "brain"
What is the cerebrum?
100

This child was used as a prime example of classical conditioning techniques in humans, his experimenter teaching him to fear a white rat by pairing it with a loud noise.

Who is Little Albert?

100

When we get scared, we experience a rush of this hormone and a release of endorphins and dopamine.

What is adrenaline?

100
This is caused by uncontrolled misfiring of neurons.
What are seizures?
200
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What is the Interaxon t-shirt?
200
The part of the brain used for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
200
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 is phantom limbs?
200

Which month is Down Syndrome Awareness Month

When is October?

200
The most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's?
300
The year and place Interaxon was formed.
What is 2006 and UCLA?
300
REM
What is rapid eye movement?
300
Retrograde Amnesia
What is the inability to remember events prior to accident causing damage to the brain?
300

This mathematician developed his curve of forgetting, which illustrates how, the longer the time spent learning, the steeper the rate at which people forget new information, if no attempt is made to retain it.

Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus ?

300
EEG stands for ______________.
What is electroencelphalogram?
400
The email(s) of Interaxon.
What is interaxn@usc.edu or uscinteraxon@gmail.com
400
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?
400

This is part of HM's brain that was removed by surgeons.

What are the left and right medial temporal lobes?

400
A neurological disorder caused by damage to the portions of the brain that are responsible for language.
What is aphasia?
500
The application/interview based position offered by USC Interaxon
What is Interaxon leader?
500
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).
500

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?


500
A neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway
What is synesthesia?