Neuroscience
Which part of the nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord?
What is the central nervous system?
This founding figure is considered the father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This disease is commonly associated with memory loss in older adults.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This Pixar film features personified emotions such as Joy, Sadness, and Anger inside a young girl's brain.
What is Inside Out?
Before becoming a legendary NFL quarterback, this athlete was a dual-threat QB and Heisman winner at UF in 2007
Who is Tim Tebow?
This is the process by which a neuron sends an electrical signal down its axon.
What is action potential?
This type of learning occurs when a behavior is strengthened by a reinforcer or diminished by a punishment?
What is operant conditioning?
This condition leads to tremors, muscle rigidity, and difficulty with movement.
What is Parkinson's disease?
In this popular 2010 film directed by Christopher Nolan, characters enter different levels of dreams, where time moves differently, to manipulate someone’s subconscious.
What is Inception?
This annual rivalry football game between UF and the University of Georgia is played in this city.
What is Jacksonville?
This lobe is responsible for interpreting and remembering visual information?
What is the occipital lobe?
John B. Watson said, "Give me a dozen healthy ___ and my own specified world to bring them up in, and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select".
What are infants?
This is a chronic, progressive, and irreversible autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of the myelin sheath resulting in progressive physical disability.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
This famous sci-fi franchise features a "neuralyzer," a device used to erase memories, employed by agents to protect the secrecy of extraterrestrial life on Earth.
What is Men in Black?
This building is home to the UF College of Business, named after a major Florida philanthropist and businessman.
What is Heavener Hall?
This specialized cell type forms the blood-brain barrier and provides support to neurons.
What are astrocytes?
Personality theorists' "Big Five" personality traits are neuroticism, extraversion, _______, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.
What is agreeableness?
For this disease, the cause is unknown although some cases may be due to autosomal inherited traits.
What is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis?
Dory has this type of amnesia in "Finding Nemo".
Before adopting the 'Gators' mascot, UF's first athletic teams were known by this less fierce nickname.
What are the Orange and Blue?
This chemical symbol rushes through the voltage-gated channel into the neuron when the membrane is depolarized.
What is Na?
The next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, scheduled for publication soon, will be known as DSM followed by this number.
What is 6?
These protein clumps form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, disrupting communication between neurons.
What are amyloid plaques?
In the film 50 First Dates, the character Lucy injures this part of her brain.
What is the hippocampus?
In what year was the University of Florida established in Gainesville, following the Buckman Act?
What is 1906?