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Can
You
Be
Super
Brained
100
This is when your brain, when you are younger, can take on new functions
What is plasticity?
100
This part of the neuron would be affected if a poison was developed that blocked dopamine
What is synapse?
100
This is why you can pull your hand away from fire
What is involving the spinal cord and brain only?
100
This is the master gland
What is the pituitary gland?
100
This is the brief electric charge that travels down the axon of a neuron
What is action potential?
200
This is what Broca and Weirneke's areas are responsible for
What is speaking and understanding language?
200
This is the part of the brain that causes aggression and anger
What is the amygdala?
200
This is the purpose of the thyroid gland
What is energy and metabolism?
200
Schizophrenia is closely linked to this neurotransmitter
What is dopamine?
200
This is the correct sequence of a transmission of a neural impulse
What is dendrite, cell body, axon and synapse?
300
This is what the cerebellum is responsible for
What is movement (especially fine motor like playing music)?
300
This is the cortex that involves touch
What is the somatosensory?
300
This is the response in the neuron that means the intensity of firing is always the same
What is the all-or-nothing response?
300
These are two brain scans used to explore hemispheric differences
What is the PET and fMRI scans?
300
This is the function of dendrites
What is receiving incoming signals from other neurons?
400
This is a drug that is an agonist
What is mimicking a neurotransmitter?
400
This is the longest part of the neuron
What is the axon?
400
These lobes of the brain receive input and allow you to feel someone scratching your back
What is parietal?
400
If a picture of a comb is processed in the right hemisphere of a split brain patient, she would be able to do this
What is using a left hand to draw a picture of the comb?
400
This part of the brain receives information from senses (except smell)
What is the thalamus?
500
This hormone is released when you are fearful
What is epinephrine?
500
This is the refractory period of a neuron
What is the recharging phase?
500
This is the long crack in the cerebral cortex
What is the longitudinal fissure?
500
This part of the brain controls breathing and heartbeat in the brainstem
What is the medulla?
500
The somatic nervous system is a component of this nervous system
What is the peripheral?