Title: Blank Jeopardy
1All about the Neuron
The Mighty Brain
Neurological Disorders
Neuroscience Methods
Come to Your Senses
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2Another name for a nerve cell.
3What is a neuron?
4The part of the neuron that brings information
to the cell body.
5What is a dendrite?
6The part of the neuron that takes
information away from the cell body.
7What is the axon?
8The junction between two neurons.
9What is a synapse?
10The explosion of electrical activity sent down
an axon when a neuron sends information.
11What is an action potential?
12The weight of the adult human brain.
13What is about 3 pounds or 1.4 kilograms?
14The two main divisions of the nervous system.
15What are the central nervous system and the
peripheral nervous system?
16Area of the brain responsible for thought,
language and planning.
17What is the cerebral cortex?
18Connects the right and left hemispheres of the
brain.
19What is the corpus callosum?
20Name of the man who survived after an iron
rod went through the frontal lobe of his brain in
1848.
21Who is Phineas Gage?
22Memory loss, dementia, depression, social
withdrawal plaques and tangles.
23What are symptoms of Alzheimers disease?
24Disease characterized as an electrical brainstorm
.
25What is epilepsy?
26Excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep
paralysis, hypnagogic hallucinations.
27What are symptoms of narcolepsy?
28Transmitted by ticks joint pains, chills, fever
and headache.
29What is Lyme disease?
30Weakness, paralysis, death of neurons in
the motor cortex and spinal cord named for a
famous baseball player.
31What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? (Lou
Gehrigs Disease)
32General term for someone who studies the nervous
system.
33What is a neuroscientist?
34Uses detection of radio frequency signals
produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic
field.
35What is MRI? (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
36Electrical activity of the brain recorded with
scalp or brain electrodes.
37What is an EEG? (Electroencephalography)
38Scanning method that detects radioactive material
that is injected or inhaled to produce an image
of the brain.
39What is PET? (Positron Emission Tomography)
40Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams
passed through the head.
41What is a CT scan? (Computed Tomography Scan)
42Another name for the sense of sight.
43What is vision?
44Lobe of the brain important for hearing.
45What is the temporal lobe?
46Sour, sweet, salty, bitter and umami.
47What are the five basic tastes?
48Free nerve endings, Pacinian corpuscles, Ruffini
endings.
49What are sensory receptors in the skin?
50Location of photoreceptors in the eye.
51What is the retina?