Brain Parts
Controls vital reflexes.Regulation of breathing, heart rate and blood pressure.
What is Medulla?
Lobe involved planning actions and social and emotional behavior.Gives one self-awareness.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Which side of the brain controls the left side of the body?
What is the right side?
Computed tomography scan.Series of x-rays taken from different angles.
What is CAT/CT Scan?
Neurotransmitter that can lead to schizophrenia when high and Parkinson's when low.
What is dopamine?
The brain can repair itself and create/repair neural pathways that have been damaged, the brain is not set in stone.
What is Neural Plasticity?
Lobe at the upper middle of the cerebrum.Contains that area where feeling sensations are processed.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
Which part of the brain allows communication between the two hemispheres?
What is the corpus callosum?
Positron emission tomography.Shows brain activity using radioactive glucose.
What is Pet Scan?
Voluntary movement, learning, reward and pleassure.
What is Dopamine?
Area of the brain most involved in balance and posture
What cerebellum?
Lobe at the lower sides of the cerebrum.Contains areas important to hearing and understanding speech.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Which side of the brain is usually used for logic and language?
What is the left hemisphere?
Amplified recording of waves of electrical activity the brain gives off.Measured by putting electrodes on scalp.
What is EEG (electroencephalogram)?
Neurotransmitter involved in fight or flight symptoms like increased heart rate.
What is Norepinephrine?
Like a switchboard for information about all senses except smell.
What is the thalamus?
Lobe at the back of cerebrum.Contains areas important to vision.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
A brain surgeon touched a part of Don's brain and he felt tingling in his left hand. Which specific part was touched?
What is the right sensory strip?
Magnetic resonance imaging.Uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create still images showing different types of soft-tissue.
What is MRI?
Mood,hunger,sleep,dreaming, Emotional State.
What is Serotonin?
Part of the brain involved in fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
Small strip of parietal lobe that controls sensation of touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.
What is the Sensory Cortex?
A picture of a bird was flashed to the right hemisphere of a split-brain patient. She would be able to identify the bird how?
What is by touching it with her left hand?
Shows activity and blood flow in the brain while it’s working, using radioactive glucose.
What is fMRI?
Enables muscle action (movement) and low levels are found in Alzheimer's diseasse .
What is Acetylcholine?