Brain Anatomy
The lobe in the very front of your brain
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Your brain is about this percentage water.
What is 75%
The 2 main divisions of the Nervous System:
Central Nervous System & Peripheral Nervous System
The Location of the Brain Bee
UVM College of Medicine
The year CVU Neuroscience was founded
What is 2023
The most important type of cell in the brain
What is a Neuron?
This part of your body protects your brain like a helmet.
What is the skull?
This structure of the limbic system plays a key role in forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
How many years has the CVU Neuroscience Club participated in the Brain Bee?
What is 2?
The class is Jack taking at UVM
The lobe that is responsible for processing visual information
This is the estimated number of neurons in the human brain.
What is about 86 billion?
This brain structure connects the two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
The rounds of the Brain Bee Competition?
What are Oral, Practical, and Final?
The # of years Elle has participated in the Brain Bee
This is the largest part of your brain and is responsible for thinking and movement.
What is the cerebrum?
This structure in the brain controls balance, coordination, and fine motor skills, and its name means “little brain.”
What is the cerebellum?
This fatty substance insulates axons and increases the speed of neural transmission.
What is myelin?
The number of CVU members who placed in the top 10 (aka final elimination round) of the Brain Bee this year
What is ALL? Or 5 :)
Our first exhibit at Echo Day about (What model did we bring in?)
What is Olfaction? (Or Marble run)
This part of the brain connects to the spinal cord and controls breathing and heart rate.
What is the brainstem?
The brain communicates through these cells, which transmit electrical and chemical signals throughout the nervous system.
What are neurons?
Disruption in this neurotransmitter’s levels is commonly linked to Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
The coordinator of the Vermont Brain Bee (the woman Elle interned for)
Who is Lisa Bernardin?
Who were Elle, Kennedy, and Sebastian?