Brain Anatomy
Physiology
Sending Signals
Brain Injuries & Disorders
Drugs
100

This part of your brain is responsible for making decisions, thinking, and voluntary movement.

Cerebrum

100

What are two things the hypothalmus is responsible for?

Appetite, weight, temperature, hormone production are some examples.

100

The gap between neurons where messages where message are released to each other.

Synapse

100

This brain injury can occur when you hit your head. It can cause you to have signs and symptoms such as a headache, nausea, balance problems, and feeling tired.

Concussion

100

These types of drugs can change the way you feel and think. They can mess up your sensory nerves and motor nerves.

Illegal drugs

200

Dani got hit in the head with a basketball during the game. She gets up from the ground and is having a hard time with walking, balance, and coordination. What part of the brain was most likely injured? Where is it located? 

Cerebellum. Back of the brain.

200
What is the purpose of the corpus callosum?
Connects the right hemisphere to the left hemisphere through nerve fibers.
200

Messages enter through what part of the neuron.

Dendrites

200

This brain injury occurs prior to birth and is caused by the pregnant mother drinking alcohol.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

200

These types of drugs make the heart pump faster. Caffeine and nicotine are examples of this type of drug.

Stimulant

300

This part of the brain is responsible for vital functions of life. Vital functions are involuntary and are necessary to survive.

Brain Stem

300

The pituitary gland is the size of pea. What does it do?

Makes hormones and sends it to different part of the body. Types of pituitary hormones help with growth, blood sugar, and puberty as some examples.

300

Nerve cells are called.

Neurons

300

This brain injury is caused when there is blood clot that does not allow blood or nutrients to get to a part of the brain.

Stroke

300

These types of drugs slow down messages in the brain. Marijuana and alcohol are examples of these types of drugs.

Sedatives

400

To lobe or not to lobe that is the question... Which lobe of the brain might support your voluntary movements?

Frontal Lobe

400

What is the cerebellum's function?

Controls balance and coordination

400

If a cold ice cube or a pin stimulates a nerve to sense it through sensory nerves... then the ice cube or pin are called.

Stimuli

400

This can happen when your brain has too much brain activity. Also, epiliepsy is a type of this brain disorder.

Seizure

400

Brain cells and nerve cells can be destroyed by drugs. True or False. This means that once that cell is destroyed

True

500

The characters from the movie, Inside Out, might be big fans of this lobe found in the brain that is strongly connected to memories.

Temporal Lobe

500

What does the cerebrum do?

Thinking, memory, decision making, solving problems.

500

The brain and brain stem are connected to a nerve center called the...

Spinal cord

500

This disorder occurs when the myelin that covers the axon of neuron breaks down. The fat is replaced with scar patches.

Multiple Sclerosis.

500

If someone is struggling with drugs, who are three good resources to reach out to?

Parents, teachers, doctors, nurses, etc...