Module 5

Question 1

What is a case study

Answer 1

1 person studied in depth (usually done with brain accidents)
-No one can ethically do experiments on the brain

Question 2

Brain scans are divided into how many categories

Answer 2

2: Brain structure and Brain Function

Question 3

What two scans studies brain structure

Answer 3

Computerized axial tomography (CT or CAT)- takes x-rays of different angles
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- uses magnetic fields and radio waves to distinguish different soft tissue. (can find tumors or locate brain damage)

Question 4

What two scans studies brain function

Answer 4

Electroencephalogram (EEG)- an amplified recording of waves of electrical activity. (sleep disorders/seizures)
Positron emission tomography (PET)- injection of radioactive glucose to detect where it goes in the brain when performing a specific task.

Question 5

What is the Brainstem

Answer 5

Central core of the brain

Question 6

What is the Medulla

Answer 6

Controls heartbeat, breathing, circulation, and swallowing
-located at the bottom of the brainstem

Question 7

What is the Reticular Formation

Answer 7

Nerve Network that helps control wakefulness

Question 8

What is the Thalamus

Answer 8

It directs messages for processing
-it’s at the top of the brainstem
-The sensory switchboard

Question 9

What is the Cerebellum

Answer 9

Controls voluntary movements and balance
Plays a role in governing emotions, hearing, and balance
-“little brain”
Controls memory on how to use your body like walking and dancing

Question 10

What is the Limbic System

Answer 10

Regulates functions like fear, memory, aggression, hunger, and thirst

Question 11

How many structures is the Limbic System made up of

Answer 11

3: Hypothalamus, Hippocampus, and the Amygdala

Question 12

What is the Hypothalamus

Answer 12

Regulates maintenance functions
-hunger, thirst, reaction to stress, and body temp.

Question 13

What is the Hippocampus

Answer 13

Helps process new memories for permanent storage

Question 14

What is the Amygdala

Answer 14

Controls many emotional responses especially fear and anger

Question 15

What is the Cerebral Cortex

Answer 15

The wrinkled outer surface that covers your brain
-made up of interconnected neurons that make up the body’s ultimate control of info processing

Question 16

What is the Longitudinal Fissure

Answer 16

Divides the brain into two hemispheres like a crevice

Question 17

What is the Corpus Callosum
(2 words, 2…)

Answer 17

A large band of neural tissues connecting the two hemispheres and allows them to communicate with each other

Question 18

How many lobes are there

Answer 18

4

Question 19

Frontal lobe

Answer 19

Located right behind your forehead
-where the most advanced thinking abilities like judgment and planning happen
-the lobes’ rational abilities lie right on top of the limbic region where the roots of your emotions are
-this is why emotion and reason influence your decision

Question 20

Parietal lobe

Answer 20

On the top back of your head
-where the general processing of information happens including a lot of your mathematical reasoning and integration of your memory

Question 21

Occipital lobe

Answer 21

Located at the back of your head
-the primary visual processing area of the brain

Question 22

Temporal lobe

Answer 22

Located right above your ears
-Sound Processing area of the brain

Question 23

What tells your body to move

Answer 23

Motor Cortex

Question 24

What does the Motor Cortex do

Answer 24

Controls voluntary movements

Question 25

Right controls…

Answer 25

Left

Question 26

Left controls…

Answer 26

Right

Question 27

The biggest part of your body uses…

Answer 27

a small part of the MC
-like your legs and arms

Question 28

The body parts that uses intricate motion uses..

Answer 28

larger amounts of MC
-like your face and hands

Question 29

Somatosensory Cortex

Answer 29

Registers and processes by sensation like touch, tickle, pain, Etc.
-SC allots (gives) more brain tissue to parts of the body that are more sensation to touch like her fingers.
(allots) more brain tissue to parts of the body that are more sensation to touch like her fingers

Question 30

Plasticity

Answer 30

Your cerebral cortex can reprogram itself sometimes, especially in young people

Question 31

What’s an example of plasticity

Answer 31

If you have brain damage and one Hemisphere and it disrupts your language ability, then your language function might transfer to the other hemisphere

Question 32

Which hemisphere is the language function located

Answer 32

Left
(small percent in the right hemishpere)

Question 33

Broca’s Area

Answer 33

Directs muscle movement involved in speech
-This area is often damaged when people have strokes
-They know what they want to say but can’t

Question 34

Wernicke’s area

Answer 34

Involved with receptive language
-You may be able to hear the words, but don’t comprehend the meaning of sentences created with words.

Question 35

Wernicke’s and Broca’s area are both in which hemisphere

Answer 35

left

Question 36

Spatial Abilities

Answer 36

-ability to perceive or organize things in a given space
Ex: judging the distance between you car and another car or packing a suitcase for the most efficient use of space
-in right hemisphere

Question 37

Ex: what word goes with sand, shells, and water?

Answer 37

The beach
The right hemisphere also gives us the insight to make connections among words

Question 38

Could you still function if your Corpus callosum was cut

Answer 38

yes
-Your personality and intellect would probably be unchanged
-However, it alters perception and your corresponding behavior