TED Day Week of Feb 5th

Question 1

What is in the Central Nervous System?

Answer 1

Brain and Spinal Cord

Question 2

What is in the Peripheral Nervous System?

Answer 2

All nerves in the body

Question 3

What are Cerebral Ventricles?

Answer 3

fluid-filled air pockets extend through entire brain and spinal cord

Question 4

What does the Cerebral Cortex do?

Answer 4

analyzing sensory processing and higher brain functions

Question 5

What does the Forebrain do?

Answer 5

allows for advanced intelligence

Question 6

What are Cerebral Hemispheres?

Answer 6

two halves of brain

Question 7

What is the Corpus Callosum?

Answer 7

fibers connecting the halves of the brain

Question 8

What does the Frontal Lobe do?

Answer 8

motor functions, language, memory and planning

Question 9

What does the Motor Cortex do?

Answer 9

responsible for body movement

Question 10

What does the Prefrontal Cortex do?

Answer 10

responsible for thinking, planning and language

Question 11

What does Broca’s Area control?

Answer 11

helps control speech production

Question 12

What is the Parietal Lobe specalized in?

Answer 12

specialized for touch and perception

Question 13

What does the Temporal Lobe do?

Answer 13

hearing, understanding language and memory

Question 14

What does Wernicke’s Area control?

Answer 14

understanding speech in temporal lobe

Question 15

What does the Occipital Lobe contain?

Answer 15

contains visual cortex

Question 16

What does the Primary Sensory Cortex do?

Answer 16

processes information from senses

Question 17

What does the Association Cortex do?

Answer 17

integrate simple functions with more complex functions

Question 18

What does Basal Ganglia do?

Answer 18

structures in the forebrain structure that helps to control movement

Question 19

What is the Limbic System?

Answer 19

emotional center of the brain

Question 20

What is the Thalamus?

Answer 20

gateway from sense organs to primary sensory cortex

Question 21

Hypothalamus

Answer 21

maintains constant internal state

Question 22

Amygdala

Answer 22

fear,excitment and arousal

Question 23

Hippocampus

Answer 23

spatial memory

Question 24

Cerebellum

Answer 24

controls balance

Question 25

Brain Stem

Answer 25

between the spinal cord and the cerebral cortex that contains the midbrain, pons and medulla

Question 26

Midbrain

Answer 26

movement, visual stimuli, sound reflexes

Question 27

Reticular Activating System

Answer 27

key role in arousal

Question 28

Hindbrain

Answer 28

region below the midbrain that contains the cerebellum, pons and medulla

Question 29

Pons

Answer 29

connects the cortex with the cerebellum

Question 30

Medulla

Answer 30

basic functions such as heartbeat and breathing

Question 31

Spinal Cord

Answer 31

nerves that conveys signals between brain and body

Question 32

Interneuron

Answer 32

neuron that sends messages to nearby neurons

Question 33

Reflex

Answer 33

automatic motor response to a sensory stimulus

Question 34

Somatic Nervous System

Answer 34

part of nervous system coordinating voluntary movement

Question 35

Autonomic Nervous System

Answer 35

involuntary responses of organs and emotional regulations

Question 36

Sympathetic Nervous System

Answer 36

autonomic nervous system during fight or flight