Brain

Question 1

Cerebullum

Answer 1

Co-ordinating movement and balance

Checks whether the motor programme being used is correct

Question 2

Temporal lobe

Answer 2

Processing auditory info ie hearing, speech, sound recognition
Memory

Question 3

Parietal lobe

Answer 3

Orientation, movement, sensation, calculation, recognition

Question 4

Occipital lobe

Answer 4

Processing info from eyes ie vision, colour, shape recognition and perspective

Question 5

Frontal lobe

Answer 5

Planning, reasoning, decision making

Forming association and ideas

Question 6

Hypothalamus

Answer 6

beneath the middle part of the brain, maintains the body temp

Question 7

Medulla oblongata

Answer 7

Controls breathing and heart rate

Question 8

MRI

Answer 8

Investigation: Higher quality for soft tissue, difference between abnormal and normal, function only worked out by looking at damaged areas
Medical: Damaged or diseased areas of brain - Tumour cells respond differently in magnetic field, show up lighter, exact size of tumour and its location
3D

Question 9

CT

Answer 9

Investigation - Major structures not functions
Medical - Blood has different densitry (lighter), extent and location of bleeding, work out blood vessels damaged
Radiation and x-rays
2D - brain disease - monitor over illness

Question 10

fMRI

Answer 10

Investigation: detailed and high resolution picture of structure and function
Medical: Study conditions caused by abnormal activity in the brain ie scan before and during seizure find cause
Human acitivites 3D
More oxygenated blood flows to active areas - respond differently

Question 11

PET

Answer 11

Investigating: very detailed and for both
Medical: show if areas are inactive or not
Radioactive tracer into tissues and scanner detects the radioactivity of the tracer
3D - cancers