Intro and Miscellaneous
Brain Parts and Functions
Protection and Vocab
Cranial Nerves and Vocab
Disorders and Med Terms
100

This is sometimes referred to as the "emotional brain"

What is the limbic system?

100

 The primary visual area is located in this lobe

What is occipital?
100

The brain needs a constant supply of these two things:

What is oxygen and glucose

100

Sensory, motor or both: olfactory

What is sensory

100

Inflammation of the meninges

What is menigitis?

200

The choroid plexus create this liquid

What is cerebrospinal fluid?
200

This section of the brain contains the cardiovascular center, which controls the rate and force of the heartbeat and the diameter of blood vessels

What is the brain stem? (medulla oblongata)

200

The barrier between the blood and CNS neurons is called the

What is blood brain barrier?

200

Sensory, motor or mixed/both:vagus

What is mixed?

200
Analgesia is a term for

What is pain relief?

300
The number of neurons in the brain

What is almost 100 billion

300

The portion of the brainstem which is continuous with the spinal cord is the

What is the medulla oblongata?

300

The meninges that is closest to the skull bone

What is dura matter?

300

 The process by which information acquired through learning is stored and retrieved is called

What is memory?

300

Parkinson's disease is due to the degeneration of neurons that produce this neurotransmitter

What is dopamine?

400

The right and left cerebral hemispheres are connected by a broad band of white matter called the

What is the corpus callosum?
400

The location of the auditory association area.

What is the temporal lobe?

400

 The CSF is gradually reabsorbed back into the blood at finger-like structures found at the top of the brain called

What is arachnoid villi?

400

An injection of an anesthetic into the space between the dura matter and vertebral column is called an

What is an epidural (epidural block)?

400

Lou Gehrig's disease is the common name for neurodegenerative disease called

ALS

500

This separates the temporal and parietal lobes

What is the central sulcus?

500

The location of the primary olfactory area (lobe)

What is the temporal lobe?

500

The part that controls what substances cross into the brain tissue is called:

What is blood brain barrier?

500

The cranial nerve that innervates the gastrointestinal tract is the

What is vagus?

500

Describe Alzheimers

What is a progressive neurological disease of the brain leading to loss of neurons and the loss of intellectual abilities