Dates with Technology
This type of imaging technology uses sound we cannot hear and was first created around 1950
What is an ultrasound?
These are the building blocks of the nervous system
What are neurons?
This neurological disorder is a sleep disorder that impairs the brain's ability to regulate the sleep-wake cycle... and makes for some sweet puppy videos
What is narcolepsy?
This part of the brain is konwn for memory formation, although I am not sure if hippopotamuses have much to do with it
What is the hippocampus?
Geering Up does this
What is teaching youth STEM?
What is an MRI machine?
This animal does not have a traditional brain, but a nerve net that lets them swim, glow, and sting
What is a jellyfish?
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is more commonly referred to as this
What is ADHD?
Gustatory means taste and eating, which is probably why the part of the brain dealing with taste information is named this
What is the primary gustatory cortex?
This is the amount of years Geering Up has been around
What is 31 years?
This machine adds only one letter to its cousin, the MRI, but was revolutionary in 1991 for mapping changes in blood oxygen levels
What is the fMRI?
This neuron performs movement commands
What is a motor neuron?
This condition might make reading really difficult
What is dyslexia?
This net-like network of neurons is involved with many processes like arousal, consciousness, sleep/wake, and breathing
What is the reticular formation?
This city hosts our sister Geering Up team, affiliated with UBCO
What is Kelowna?
This technology was named Time Magazine's medical invention of the year in 2000, and its name reminds me of my dog
What is a PET scan?
This neuron gathers information and sends it to the brain
What is a sensory neuron?
If you have unprovoked seizures with abnormal electrical activity in the brain, you might have this disorder
What is epilepsy?
This part of the brain is the relay station or gatekeeper, it organizes information from all senses except smell
What is the thalamus?
Geering Up is a part of this faculty at UBC
What is the Faculty of Applied Science (aka: Engineering)?
1924 was the first time electrical brain signals were captured by this method
What is an EEG?
This neuron is only in the CNS (central nervous system)
What is an inter neuron?
This condition most commonly causes involuntary shaking of parts of the body and it's symptoms come on gradually, seen in aging populations
What is Parkinson's disease?
This part of the brain can be referred to as the 'homeostasis station'
What is the hypothalamus?
The mascot of Geering Up
Who is Geermo?