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To Round Two!
Check Out My Brain!
I’m So Nervous!
Let’s Chat You’re on my last neuron
Brain Stem
In this scan, electrodes are placed on the scalp to record
electrical brain waves.
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A series of X-rays taken from different angles that can reveal brain damage.
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Glucose in injected & this gives a visual of brain
activity when you perform certain functions.
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Technique for revealing bloodflow, activity, & function of the brain.
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Respectively, the division of the nervous system made up of the brain & spinal cord AND the division responsible for
communication with muscles & glands.
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The part of the Peripheral Nervous System that enables voluntary
control of our muscles.
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You don’t have to concentrate to get this half of the PNS to work
because it does so automatically.
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Part of the PNS that gives you energy to spring into action (ready for “fight or flight”).
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These are responsible for releasing the hormones
(i.e. epinephrine/adrenaline & norepinephrine/nonadrenaline)
associated with the “fight or flight” response
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Chemicals released by one neuron and received by
another neuron.
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A message received by a neuron that decreases the
likelihood of the neuron firing.
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Messages pass to other neurons, muscles, or glands through this
part of a neuron.
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This is the level of stimulation required to trigger a neural
impulse.
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This part of the brain stem controls your heartbeat &
breathing.
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Hey! Pay attention! Something important is happening! It’s this part of the brain stem
that alerts you to potentially important goings on in your
environment.
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This “little brain” helps us coordinate voluntary movements, such as balance and walking.
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This sits at the top of the brainstem and is the brain’s
sensory switchboard through which all sensory info (except smell) travels.
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To Round One
Midbrain LobesTwo halves
make a whole
Sleep & Dreaming
Grab bag
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Brain structure that controls your drives to survive, such as
hunger, thirst, & body temp.
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This neural system is associated with emotions and drives (the 4
Fs).
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This supervises the other glands and is known as
the “master gland”.
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If you can’t remember playing this game an hour from now, you may have a problem with
this brain structure.
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If this structure is stimulated, you might get
aggressive and punch Julissa in the mouth & kick Esquivel in his big
head.
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If the thalamus is sent images from the eyes, they will be sent to this
lobe.
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Goldilocks may have been using this lobe as she judged
porridge to be too hot, too cold, and just right.
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After a freak accident, Phineas Gage showed a change in
personality when this lobe was damaged.
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This area let’s you speak, but it’s not the area that helps
you understand.
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Broad band of nerve fibers connecting the right and left
brain hemispheres.
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When you recognize a face in a crowd you are most
likely using this hemisphere.
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If a picture is shown in your left visual field, it will be
processed by the occipital lobe in this brain
hemisphere.
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If you are shown a picture in your right visual field, and then are asked to draw it, you will
most likely use this hand.
It may help to assume you are a split brain patient.
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These are patterns of electrical activity that
changes during stages os sleep?
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It’s the stage of sleep when you are most likely to
sleep walk?
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To sleep perchance to dream. You are more likely to do
that during this type of sleep.
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The fact that students often dream about taking exams
seems to support this theory of dreaming.
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It the theory of dreaming that says that your cerebrum is just making stories to make
sense of random signals from the pons (brain stem).
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A shortage of this neurotransmitter might make
you feel sad.
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Michael J. Fox has this neurological disorder associated with the
neurotransmitter dopamine.
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The brain’s ability to change, reorganize, and build new pathways after damage.
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What is:
Autonomic nervous system?(Controls and regulates internal
organs, glands, and blood vessels. These processes are automatic
and involuntary.)
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Sympathetic nervous system?(A branch of the autonomic nervous system. The
sympathetic nervous system increases a body’s energy output, so that the body can be easily
mobilized into action. Analogous to a gas pedal on a car. )
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Synapse?(Synapse includes the space between neurons
(Synaptic gap or cleft), the axon terminal, and receptor sites on the receiving cell)
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inhibitory?(Neurotransmitters are released from the axon
terminals of the sending sell and picked up by the dendrite of the receiving cell. If sufficient stimulation occurs, the receiving cell may fire
(excitatory) or stop firing (inhibitory).)
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What is:
Myelin sheath(Fatty substance that acts to insulate axon. The myelin
sheath increases speed of impulse because electrical charge of nerve impulse doesn’t have to move along
entire cell membrane – instead the impulse jumps from node to node, the spaces between the sheath.)
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What is:Action potential?
(Also call a nerve impulse. When a neuron is stimulated, it’s electrical charge changes from negative to positive. The resulting electrical
charge moves through the cell body and down the axon. )
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What is:Glia?
(These cells are involved in keeping neurons functioning, e.g. providing nutrition. They also
are involved in communication between neurons.)
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Sensory-carry info to brain & spinal cord
Motor-carry info from brain/spinal cord to muscles & glands
Interneurons-communicate bw sensory & motor
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The medulla?(Controls automatic, usually unconscious functions like
breathing and heart rate.)
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The reticular activating system?
(This network of nerve cells screens incoming sensory information and arouses or activates the cerebrum to
direct our attention to important information.)
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Top of the spinal cord?(The brain stem starts where the spinal cord
ends. It is often considered to be the most primitive part of the brain.)
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What is:Hypothalamus?
(Involved in emotions and motivations related to survival including thirst, hunger, reproduction. It is the executive in charge of the hormonal
system – the pituitary is it’s second in command. The hypothalamus also regulates
the autonomic nervous system.)
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The hippocampus?(Functions to store new information in the brain.
It is NOT where older information is stored in memory. So if your hippocampus is damaged,
you might have trouble remembering this game in a couple of minutes, you would still
remember older, previously formed memories.)
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Amygdala?(This structure controls your initial emotional response to stimuli. Also involved in arousal.
For example, may spur you to run in fear if you think you see a mugger behind a bush. This
initial response can be changed by the cerebrum upon further analysis. For example, if
you realize that the mugger is really just the wind blowing the limbs of the bush, you won’t
run.)
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Temporal?(Located above the ears, this is where the
auditory cortex is located.)
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Occipital?(The visual cortex is in the lobe
located at the back of the cerebrum.)
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Parietal?(The parietal lobe contains the somatosenory cortex. Soma means body, hence this part of the cerebrum analyzes sensory information, including temperature, sent from the body to the brain. The somatosensory cortex is adjacent to the motor cortex in the frontal lobe. So if Goldilocks senses that some porridge is too hot with the somatosensory cortex, the motor cortex can quickly send out a command to spit it out.)
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Frontal?(This lobe has many functions including social judgment, higher-order thinking, and planning – these may account for Mr. Gage’s personality changes. This lobe is also involved in memory, and speech production. The motor cortex is also found here.)
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Broca’s area?(Located on left side of frontal lobe. The area responsible for understanding speech is on the
left side of the temporal lobe, and is named Wernickes’ area.)
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What is:Left?
(This is true even of most left handers. Broca’s area for speech production is located in the left
frontal lobe. Wernicke’s area for speech comprehension is in the left temporal lobe.)
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Right?(The right hemisphere specializes in visual-spatial
tasks, and facial recognition may be a special case of such a task. This hemisphere is less
verbal than the left. Some people also believe it is more emotional and less logical than the left.)
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What is:Right?
(Information from the left visual field crosses over to the opposite brain hemisphere, i.e. the right. Information from the right visual
field goes to the left brain.
Note that the visual field is the external visual environment, it is not your eyes. The information from the visual field is picked
up by your eyes, and is then sent to the brain. )
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Right hand? (This is NOT because most people are right handed. Information
from the right visual field is processed by the left brain hemisphere. The left brain controls the right side of the body. Hence, the right hand has access to the picture seen by the left brain. You may remember that the left hemisphere is not a specialist in visual-spatial tasks, so it may not be a great artist. Despite this limitation, it can create a recognizable drawing.)
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Brain waves?(Different stages of sleep show different patterns of
brain waves as measures by EEG, electroencephalogram.)
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(This is the deepest level of sleep, so it is surprising that sleepwalking and talking often occur now. The causes of sleepwalking are
not completely understood, but is more common in children and is associated with
illness, e.g., running a fever.)
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REM?(Rapid eye movement. The first episode of REM sleep starts about 90 minutes after we fall asleep and recurs every 90 minutes thereafter. The length of REM varies, but tend to become longer at the end of the sleep cycle, i.e., when we are close to waking up. REM sleep is also called paradoxical sleep, because our brain waves show that our brains are very active – almost awake, but our muscles are partially paralyzed.)
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Reflection of current concerns?(Theory that our dreams reflect issues from our current life. Hence students dream about exams because they spend part of their waking hours
preparing for, taking, and worrying about exams. Nonstudents are less likely to dream about
exams.)
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Activation-synthesis theory?(The pons, a structure in the brain stem, is involved in sleep and dreaming. Neurons in the pons fire during
sleep, hence information is sent to the brain from the pons – this is the activation. The information is random, it is not in story form. The higher order functions of our cerebrum, however, tries to make sense of those random thoughts,
images, and feelings and incorporate them into a dream – this is the synthesis. This process may explain why many
of our dreams are so weird.
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PET scan?(Positron emission tomography works by tracking the brain’s use of
glucose. When a part of the brain is active, the blood carries glucose that the brain uses for energy to that part of the brain.
Hence by tracking the glucose use, investigators can get a sense of the workings of the brain. In studies, a radioactive element is
injected with a glucoselike substance. Special scanners track the radioactivity as it travels through the blood stream. The level of
radioactivity is very low and is not harmful. Some PET scans track blood flow or oxygen levels to determine brain activity. )
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