Day 1
The brain and the spinal cord make up this division of the nervous system.
What is the CNS?
Electrical impulses that travel down a neuron's axon
What is an action potential?
What is the Broca's area?
The device that helps people with sleep apnea breathe at night.
What is a CPAP machine?
Who is Stuti?
The four lobes of the brain
What are the frontal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe and parietal lobe?
The most common form of dementia
What is Alzheimer's?
The three germ layers that form in the womb.
What are the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm?
The repetitive behaviors that people with autism typically exhibit.
What is stimming?
She has played four instruments in the past.
Who is Raelle?
Controls your body's fight or flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Damage to this midbrain structure causes a loss of dopamine-producing cells that is thought to result in Parkinson's disease.
What is the sonic hedgehog signaling molecule?
The uncontrollable, recurring thoughts that occur in OCD.
She once forgot to record an entire class because someone else's AI notetaker was doing it.
Who are Raelle and Stuti?
Memories of specific events in your life (ex: your third birthday party)
What are episodic memories?
What is ALS?
Neurons arise from a fairly limited pool of these two types of cells.
What are stem and progenitor cells?
The two types of episodes in bipolar disorder.
What are manic and depressive episodes?
She posts the daily materials in Spanish.
Who is Stuti?
Located in the entorhinal cortex and act as coordinates for the brain to track your position in space without any external cues.
What are grid cells?
Involuntary and irregular muscle movements that are characteristic of Huntington's disease.
What is chorea?
What are radial glia?
The receptors that detect pain.
What are nociceptors?
(I'm sure your mental nociceptors are firing right now because you are in so much pain that ScioCamp is over.)