All about the Neuron
Another name for a "nerve cell".
What is a neuron?
The weight of the adult human brain.
What is 3 pounds?
Memory loss, dementia, depression, plaques and tangles.
What are symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease?
General term for someone who studies the nervous system?
What is a neuroscientist?
Another name for the sense of sight.
What is vision?
The part of the neuron that brings information to the cell body.
What is a dendrite?
The two main divisions of the nervous system.
What are the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system?
Disease characterized as an electrical "brainstorm".
What is epilepsy?
Uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
What is an MRI? (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
Lobe of the brain important for hearing.
What is the temporal lobe?
The part of the neuron that takes information away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
Area of the brain responsible for thought, language, and planning?
What is the cerebral cortex?
Excessive daytime sleepiness, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations.
What are the symptoms of narcolepsy?
Electric activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain electrodes.
What is an EEG? (electroencephalography)
Sour, sweet, salty, bitter, and umami fall under this category.
What are the five basic tastes.
The junction between two neurons.
What is a synapse?
Connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
Transmitted by ticks; joint pain, chills, fever, and headache.
What is Lyme Disease?
Scanning method that detects radioactive material that is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain.
What is PET? (Positron Emission Tomography)
Hair cells in the inner ear are an example.
What are sensory receptors?
The explosion of electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends information.
What is an action potential?
Name of the man who survived after an iron rod went thorough the frontal lobe of his brain in 1848.
Who is Phineas Gage?
Weakness, paralysis, death of neurons in the motor cortex and spinal cord; named for a famous baseball player.
What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.
What is a CT scan? (Compound Tomography)
Location of photoreceptors in the eye.
What is the retina?