Techniques
Three Brain Division
What brain part is responsible?
Random Questions
What part is this?
100
The old belief that bumps on your head told us something about your character.
Phrenology
100
Which is not part of the HINDBRAIN?
- spinal cord
- pons
- cerebellum
- amygdala
Amygdala
100
For Oliver Sack's enjoying Bach's music even when he's not aware that it's Bach he's listening to
Amygdala
100
If you have a split brain, and see the word "DANCE" in your right hemisphere, and are asked what you saw, what will you say?
Nothing.
100
In pink
Hippocampus
200
Detects the electrical energy of the neurons in your brain.
EEG
200
If you had narcolepsy (spontaneously falling asleep), you'd like have a problem with this brain region.
Pons
Substantia Nigra
200
For Michael J Fox's tremors, due to Parkinson's Disease
substantia nigra
200
If you have a split brain, and the word "DANCE" comes to your right hemisphere, and you are asked to write down what you saw, what will you write?
DANCE
200
(the red dot is pointing to it)
The cerebellum
300
-Measures changes in blood oxygen levels
-Can show which brain areas are active
fMRI
300
The three parts of the LIMBIC SYSTEM (subcortical (underneath) the lobes.
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Amygdala
300
Which area of Clive Wearing's brain was destroyed by a virus, and resulted in his 7 second memory?
Hippocampus
300
Stephen was born with a hearing deficit, but there is nothing wrong with his ears. The doctors conclude that there must be damage to Stephen’s __________ lobes.
Temporal
300
Yellow
Occipital Lobe
400
-Uses a powerful magnetic field to momentarily disrupt or induce activity in a specific brain area.
Can be used to treat depression
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
400
The four lobes that make up the cerebral cortex
Frontal
Parietal
Occipital
Temporal
400
Which part of our brain acts like a triage nurse or mail sorter, taking in sensory information and deciding where to send the information
The thalamus
400
Which brain area explains why some people get excited by foot pics?
The somatosensory cortex
400
the light pink area
Motor Cortex
500
The old practice of drilling into your brain, to let the demons out.
Trepanation
500
The band of neural fibers that connect the two brain hemispheres (and that is sometimes cut when I person as severe epilepsy).
The corpus collusum
500
Which part of our brain keeps us balanced, in homeostatis?
The hypothalamus
500
Which lobe is responsible for long-term planning and strategizing?
Frontal
500
The green area
Midbrain, substantia nigra