1. All about
the Neuron
The Mighty
Brain
Neurological
Disorders
Neuroscience
Methods
Come to
Your Senses
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2. Another name for
a “nerve cell.”

3. What is a neuron?

4. The part of the neuron that
brings information
to the cell body.

5. What is a dendrite?

6. The part of the neuron that
takes information
away from the cell body.

7. What is the axon?

8. The junction between
two neurons.

9. What is a synapse?

10. The explosion of electrical
activity sent down an
axon when a neuron
sends information.

11. What is an
action potential?

12. The weight of the adult
human brain.

13. What is about 3 pounds
or 1.4 kilograms?

14. The two main divisions
of the nervous system.

15. central nervous system
What are the
central nervous system
and the peripheral
nervous system?

16. Area of the brain responsible for thought, language and planning.

17. What is the
cerebral cortex?

18. Connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

19. What is the
corpus callosum?

20. survived after an iron rod went through the frontal
Name of the man who
survived after an iron rod
went through the frontal
lobe of his brain in 1848.

21. Who is Phineas Gage?

22. Memory loss,
dementia,
depression,
social withdrawal;
plaques and tangles.

23. What are symptoms of
Alzheimer’s disease?

24. Disease characterized
as an electrical
“brainstorm.”

25. What is epilepsy?

26. hypnagogic hallucinations.
Excessive daytime
sleepiness, cataplexy,
sleep paralysis,
hypnagogic hallucinations.

27. What are symptoms
of narcolepsy?

28. Transmitted by ticks;
joint pains, chills,
fever and headache.

29. What is
Lyme disease?

30. and spinal cord; named for a famous baseball player.
Weakness, paralysis,
death of neurons in the
motor cortex
and spinal cord; named for
a famous baseball player.

31. (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
What is amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis?
(Lou Gehrig’s Disease)

32. General term for
someone who studies
the nervous system.

33. What is a neuroscientist?

34. Uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.

35. (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
What is MRI?
(Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

36. Electrical activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain electrodes.

37. (Electroencephalography)
What is an EEG?
(Electroencephalography)

38. Scanning method that detects radioactive material that is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain.

39. (Positron Emission Tomography)
What is PET?
(Positron Emission Tomography)

40. Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.

41. What is a CT scan? (Computed Tomography Scan)

42. Another name for
the sense of sight.

43. What is vision?

44. Lobe of the brain
important for hearing.

45. What is the
temporal lobe?

46. Sour, sweet, salty,
bitter and umami.

47. What are the five
basic tastes?

48. Free nerve endings,
Pacinian corpuscles,
Ruffini endings.

49. What are sensory
receptors in the skin?

50. Location of
photoreceptors
in the eye.

51. What is the retina?