Quiz studying

Question 1

What did Charles Bell discover?

Answer 1

The distinction between the two branches of the facial nerve

Question 2

What does the nervous system do?

Answer 2

It is the control centre of the body and it is responsible for receiving, processing, and transmitting information

Question 3

What does the Peripheral Nervous system do?

Answer 3

Connect the CNS to the limbs and organs, essentially serving as a relay between the brain and spinal cord and the rest of the body

Question 4

What does the Autonomic nervous system do?

Answer 4

It controls involuntary movements

Question 5

What does the Somatic nervous system do?

Answer 5

It controls voluntary movements and sensory perceptions

Question 6

How do neurons transmit information?

Answer 6

Through chemicals and electric signals

Question 7

What are the parts of the neuron?

Answer 7

Dendrites, cell body/soma, and axon

Question 8

What do sensory neurons do?

Answer 8

They transfer sensor info and perceive the world

Question 9

What do motor neurons do?

Answer 9

They help carry out voluntary movements

Question 10

What do internurons do?

Answer 10

They connect sensory and motor neurons. Rely signals and helps make decisions processing information

Question 11

What do Neuroglia do?

Answer 11

They play a supporting role, these cells outnumber neurons and provide functions like structural integrity and supplying nutrients

Question 12

What are the lobes of the brain?

Answer 12

Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, Temporal and Cerebellum

Question 13

What does the brain stem connect?

Answer 13

The brain and spinal cord

Question 14

What does the brain stem do?

Answer 14

Helps with breathing and digestion

Question 15

What does the left hemisphere of the brain do?

Answer 15

Thinking in words, sequencing, linear thinking, mathematics, facts, logic

Question 16

What does the right hemisphere of the brain do?

Answer 16

Feelings, visualization, intuition, rhythm, holistic thinking, arts

Question 17

What can you do to strengthen or weaken neural pathways?

Answer 17

Use to strengthen and don’t use to weaken

Question 18

What are cranial nerves and how many are there?

Answer 18

A network of 12 specialized nerves

Question 19

Where do cranial nerves originate from?

Answer 19

They emerge from the brain (and not the spinal cord like other nerves)

Question 20

What do mixed cranial nerves do?

Answer 20

They have both motor and sensory functions that control heart rate and digestion.

Question 21

What does the facial nerve do?

Answer 21

It carries both motor and sensory functions

Question 22

What does the optic nerve do?

Answer 22

It carries info from the eye to the brain

Question 23

What disorder affects the facial nerve?

Answer 23

Bell’s Palsy

Question 24

What disorders affect the optic nerve?

Answer 24

Glaucoma and Optic neuritis

Question 25

What did Korbinian Brodmann discover?

Answer 25

Different parts of the brain had very different neurological compositions (cellular) and it could hold the key to figuring out the brain’s specialisation

Question 26

What are the three primary brain vesicles?

Answer 26

Forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain

Question 27

What does cephalon mean?

Answer 27

Head

Question 28

What does the diencephalon do?

Answer 28

The thalamus which is a relay station, sensory information goes there and is redirected. The hypothalamus regulates essential functions like cicadian rhythm and hunger

Question 29

Where is the telencephalon located and how developed is it?

Answer 29

It is the outermost part of the brain and is the highly developed part.

Question 30

What does the midbrain/mesencephalon do?

Answer 30

It is involved in visual and sensory information. Moves really fast and will take over in fearful situations

Question 31

What does the hindbrain do?

Answer 31

Coordination and vital functions like automatic things like walking and tying shoes

Question 32

What does the Cerebellum/little brain do?

Answer 32

Movements, balance, and posture. It also helps people with hand-based skills and motor coordination in general

Question 33

What does the Pons do?

Answer 33

Regulates breathing and other things we don’t have to think about

Question 34

What does the Myelencephalon do?

Answer 34

Takes over when a person is fearful. Controls vital things like breathing and heart rate

Question 35

What are Lobes?

Answer 35

Organisational areas of the cortex

Question 36

What does the frontal lobe do?

Answer 36

It has a crucial role in functions like problem-solving, moral reasoning, planning. Expression of our personality

Question 37

What does the temporal lobe do?

Answer 37

Essential for auditory processing, memory formation, and language comprehension

Question 38

What does Wernicke’s area do?

Answer 38

Helps understand spoken and written word

Question 39

What is Aphasia and what does it affect?

Answer 39

It means you have difficulty comprehending language and it affects the temporal lobe

Question 40

What does the Hippocampus do?

Answer 40

It is central to processing and helps with memory encoding and retrieval. Also, helps with facial recognition.

Question 41

What does the right temporal lobe do?

Answer 41

Processing spatial information, emotional recognition, and understand others

Question 42

What does the occipital lobe do?

Answer 42

Visual processing and sensory information.

Question 43

What is the first region to receive visual information?

Answer 43

Primary visual cortex

Question 44

What happens when the occipital lobe is damaged?

Answer 44

Visual agnosia where people struggle to recognize visual objects

Question 45

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 45

It means you can't recognize faces

Question 46

What does the parietal lobe do?

Answer 46

Sensory processing. attention, and spatial awareness. It also filters out distractions and processes numbers/math

Question 47

What does the Somato sensory cortex do?

Answer 47

Processs tactile sensations from different parts of the body. Includes touch, temperature and pain

Question 48

What is the Cerebellum/little brain involved in?

Answer 48

Attention, motor learning, language processing, and emotional regulation