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