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All about the Neuron The Mighty Brain Neurological Disorders
Neuroscience Methods Come to Your Senses
2. Another name for a nerve cell. 3. What is aneuron ? 4. The
part of the neuron that brings informationto the cell body. 5. What
is adendrite ? 6. The part of the neuron that takes information
away from the cell body. 7. What is theaxon ? 8. The junction
between two neurons. 9. What is asynapse ? 10. The explosion of
electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends
information. 11. What is an action potential ? 12. The weight of
the adult human brain. 13. What is about3 pounds or1.4 kilograms ?
14. Thetwomain divisions of the nervous system. 15. What are the
central nervous system and theperipheral nervous system ? 16. Area
of the brain responsible for thought, language and planning. 17.
What is the cerebral cortex ? 18. Connects the right and left
hemispheres of the brain. 19. What is the corpus callosum ? 20.
Name of the man who survived after an iron rod went through the
frontal lobe of his brain in 1848. 21. Who isPhineas Gage ? 22.
Memory loss, dementia, depression, social withdrawal; plaques and
tangles. 23. What are symptoms of Alzheimers disease ? 24. Disease
characterized as an electrical brainstorm. 25. What isepilepsy ?
26. Excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep
paralysis,hypnagogic hallucinations. 27. What are symptoms
ofnarcolepsy ? 28. Transmitted by ticks; joint pains, chills, fever
and headache. 29. What is Lyme disease ? 30. Weakness, paralysis,
death of neurons in the motor cortex and spinal cord; named for a
famous baseball player. 31. What isamyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
(Lou Gehrigs Disease) 32. General term forsomeone who studies the
nervous system. 33. What is a neuroscientist? 34. Uses detection of
radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a
magnetic field. 35. What isMRI ? (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) 36.
Electrical activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain
electrodes. 37. What is anEEG?(Electroencephalography) 38. Scanning
method that detects radioactive material that is injected or
inhaled to produce an image of the brain. 39. What isPET ?
(Positron Emission Tomography) 40. Brain scan that uses a series of
X-ray beams passed through the head. 41. What is aCT scan
?(Computed Tomography Scan) 42. Another name for the sense of
sight. 43. What isvision ? 44. Lobe of the brain important for
hearing. 45. What is the temporal lobe ? 46. Sour, sweet, salty,
bitter and umami. 47. What are thefivebasic tastes ? 48. Free nerve
endings, Pacinian corpuscles, Ruffini endings. 49. What aresensory
receptorsin the skin? 50. Location of photoreceptors in the eye.
51. What is theretina ?
