1. PET Scans
Read the information on your worksheet. It explains how PET scans work.

3. Add lines to your brain diagram from last week as shown above
Add lines to your brain diagram from last week as shown above. (Notice the dots? Use them!)

4. This is what a full set of images from a PET scan might look like.
Answer questions 1 and 2 on the front side of your worksheet.

5. On the back side of your worksheet, there is a data table.
Use the upcoming slides to complete the data table.
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6. What areas are activated? Which aren’t?
Set : 1
What areas are activated?
Which aren’t?
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Use the diagram in your notebook to help you determine which areas of the brain are activated AND what the subject might be doing.

7. Set # 1 shows: (Use info for data table)
The most activity is in:
b- front, middle d- front.
These areas control:
b = thinking, taste/touch
d = smell
The slides show someone who is:
Resting, eyes closed, thinking, tasting the drink, smelling the hospital

8. Subject Performing A Task
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Set 2:
Subject Performing A Task
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Fill out your data table with:
Which slide (a, b, c or d) shows the highest activity?
The area of the brain that is activated is responsible for what type of information?

9. Set # 2 shows a subject that is:
Eating a snack.

10. Subject Performing A Task
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Set 3:
Subject Performing A Task
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Fill out your data table with:
Which slide (a, b, c or d) shows the highest activity?
The area of the brain that is activated is responsible for what type of information?

11. Set # 3 shows a subject that is:
Forming a mental picture of a scene.

12. Subject Performing A Task
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Set 4:
Subject Performing A Task
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Fill out your data table with:
Which slide (a, b, c or d) shows the highest activity?
The area of the brain that is activated is responsible for what type of information?

13. Set # 4 shows a subject that is:
Solving simple math problems

14. Subject Performing A Task
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Set 5:
Subject Performing A Task
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Fill out your data table with:
Which slide (a, b, c or d) shows the highest activity?
The area of the brain that is activated is responsible for what type of information?

15. Set # 5 shows a subject that is:
Looking at pictures.

16. Subject Performing A Task
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Set 6:
Subject Performing A Task
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Fill out your data table with:
Which slide (a, b, c or d) shows the highest activity?
The area of the brain that is activated is responsible for what type of information?

17. Set # 6 shows a subject that is:
Moving hands/feet in response to directions.

18. PET Demonstration: “Think-A-Dot” Alternative Assignment
Think about the things you do during a “normal” science class. You might be listening to a presentation, taking notes, working at stations, white-boarding ideas, etc.
Fill in questions 5, 6, and 7 based on what your brain is doing during that “normal” day.
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