The Brain

Question 1

What are the 4 lobes of the brain and what is its function

Answer 1

Parietal- pressure and touch
occipital-visual information
frontal- thinking, personality and decision making
temporal-hearing and understanding speech

Question 2

What does the left side of the brain control

Answer 2

Controls the right side of the body, speaking, writing, logical thought, algebra and science

Question 3

What does the right side of the brain control

Answer 3

Controls the left side of the body, pattern recognition, puzzle solving, map reading,art, music and creativity

Question 4

What makes up the central nervous system

Answer 4

The brain and spinal cord

Question 5

Label the brain

Answer 5

Corpus callosum
Hypothalamus
Amygdala
Brain stem
Cerebellum 
Pineal gland
Hippocampus 
Thalamus
Cerebral cortex

Question 6

What are sensory neurons

Answer 6

Carry messages from sense organs to CNS

Question 7

What are motor neurons

Answer 7

Carry messages from CNs to the body(limbs to organs)

Question 8

What are interneurones

Answer 8

Found only in CNS connect motor and sensory neurons

Question 9

What does brain neuroplasticty mean

Answer 9

It’s reshaping/re writing itself continually

Mouldable networks

Question 10

What is sensory memory

Answer 10

Information from our sense eg smell, touch, taste

Question 11

What is short term memory

Answer 11

More limited memory

Longer last then sensory memory eg phone numbers

Question 12

What is long term memory

Answer 12

Stores information for long periods (provided we use it)

Eg riding a bike or our maths times tables

Question 13

Way to remember neurotransmitters

Answer 13

D-dopamine
A-acetylcholine 
N-noradrenalin
G-GABA
S-serotonin

Question 14

What is GABA

Answer 14

Motor control and anxiety

Question 15

What is dopamine

Answer 15

Voluntary movement, learning and feeling of pleasure

Question 16

What is acetylcholine

Answer 16

Memory consolidation in hippocampus

Question 17

What is noradrenalin

Answer 17

Experience of emotions

Question 18

What is serotonin

Answer 18

Sleep and emotions

Question 19

Label neurons

Answer 19

Nucleus 
Dendrites 
Myelin sheath 
Node of ranvier
Synapse
Synaptic terminals
Axon
Cell body

Question 20

Define fontanelles

Answer 20

Soft spots on baby’s head before brain plates fuse together in first year of life.

Question 21

What is a fontanelle

Answer 21

A soft spot on the head that babies have because their head hasn’t fully formed yet

Question 22

The part of the brain involved in logical thinking is…

Answer 22

The left side of the brain

Question 23

What function is the frontal lobe

Answer 23

Thinking, personality and decision making

Question 24

What does PNS stand for

Answer 24

Peripheral nervous system

Question 25

What order does the message travel along a neuron

Answer 25

Dedrites, cell body, axon, synaptic terminals, synapse

Question 26

What order does the message travel along a neuron

Answer 26

Dedrites, cell body, axon, synaptic terminals, synapse

Question 27

Neurons receive messages from the previous and neighbouring neurons via...

Answer 27

The soma will determine if the message is strong enough to send a message to the axon

Question 28

What is the CNS made up of

Answer 28

Brain and spinal cord

Question 29

What does the central nervous system do

Answer 29

Controls functions of the body and mind

Question 30

What does the peripheral nervous system consist of?

Answer 30

Nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord

Question 31

What does the PNS do?

Answer 31

Controls the nerves that carries instructions from your Brian to limbs

Question 32

What occurs at the synapse

Answer 32

A tiny gap between neurons where it triggers the neuron to release a chemical neurotransmitter so it can move across the gap

Question 33

How can dendritic connections be strengthened or increased ?

Answer 33

A stimulated mind can help grow more dendrites

Question 34

What damage occurred to Phineas Gage?

Answer 34

An iron rod speared his head and damaged his frontal lobe. His personality and emotions were effected

Question 35

Use it or lose it' how does it apply to the brain?

Answer 35

If we keep our brain challenged and stimulated, then we will be less likely affected by the symptoms of dementia as we age

Question 36

Corpus callosum

Answer 36

The thick band of nerve fibres connecting the left and right brain hemispheres

Question 37

What does CFS stand for and what is it

Answer 37

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME | Physical fatigue and tiered

Question 38

What are phantom limbs

Answer 38

sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts. They can feel itching, tickling and even pain where the limb used to be

Question 39

What is melatonin

Answer 39

Produced by the pineal gland and regulates our sleep pattern

Question 40

How can the number of dendrites in the brain be reduced?

Answer 40

By having an unstimulated mind, boredom and lack of social interaction