Week 6

Question 1

What are metabolites

Answer 1

A substance necessary for living organisms to continue life

Question 2

What uses metabolites?

Answer 2

The brain

Question 3

What is the “trunk” of the brain

Answer 3

the brain stem

Question 4

what is the brain stem responsible for?

Answer 4

many of our neural functions, such as regulating our breathing, heart rate, and digestion

Question 5

What does the cerebelum look like and what does it do?

Answer 5

a little hump thing at the back bottom bit of the brain,
important to posture and coordinated movement, and language,

Question 6

What are the cerebral hemispheres responsible for? How many are there?

Answer 6

responsible for cognitive abilities and conscious experience. 2: left and right

Question 7

What is the largest part of the brain?

Answer 7

the cerebral hemispheres

Question 8

what is occipital lobe responsible for?

Answer 8

vision

Question 9

what is temporal lobe responsible for?

Answer 9

memory, multisensory integration

Question 10

what is parietal lobe responsible for?

Answer 10

touch, temperature, pain, taste

Question 11

what is frontal lobe responsible for?

Answer 11

motor planning, language, judgement, decision making

Question 12

what is in the parietal lobe?

Answer 12

the primary somatosensory (body sensations) cortex

Question 13

Basal Ganglia

Answer 13

Subcortical structures of the cerebral hemispheres involved in voluntary movement

Question 14

Where is the basal ganglia

Answer 14

in the very center of the brain, a circle and then a long looped line

Question 15

What is the limbic system? What is it made up of?

Answer 15

A loosely defined network of nuclei in the brain involved with learning and emotion, includes the amygdala, pituitary gland, thalamus, hypothalamus

Question 16

What are the 2 cerebral hemispheres connected by?

Answer 16

the corpus callosum

Question 17

What is the corpus callosum?

Answer 17

a bundle of white matter tract that allow the 2 hemispheres to talk to eachother

Question 18

What side of the body is the left hemisphere responsible for in terms of movement and sensations?

Answer 18

the right side

Question 19

What side of the body is the right hemisphere responsible for in terms of movement and sensations?

Answer 19

the left side

Question 20

what are the symptoms of a split brain patient?

Answer 20

ppl who’s hemispheres are not connected

Question 21

What is gray matter composed of?

Answer 21

the neuronal cell bodies

Question 22

what are the cell bodies in gray matter ?

Answer 22

somas

Question 23

what are the somas in gray matter responsible for?

Answer 23

metabolism and synthesizing proteins

Question 24

What is white matter composed of?

Answer 24

the axons of the neurons, primarily the axons that are covered with a sheath of myelin

Question 25

What is converging evidence?

Answer 25

similar findings reported from multiple studies using diff. methods

Question 26

What is transcranial magnetic stimulation?

Answer 26

when a brief magnetic pulse is applied to the head that temporarily induces a weak electrical current that interferes with ongoing activity.

Question 27

What is functional magnetic resonance imaging

Answer 27

a method that is used to assess changes in activity of tissue

Question 28

What does fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) measure?

Answer 28

blood volume and blood flow, and from this we infer neural activity the change in the concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin, which is known as the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal.

Question 29

What type of brain scan has the best temporal resolution?

Answer 29

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Question 30

What is the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 30

The part of the nervous system that is outside the brain and spinal cord.

Question 31

What is neural induction?

Answer 31

A process that causes the formation of the neural tube

Question 32

What is the ectoderm?

Answer 32

The outermost layer of a developing fetus

Question 33

What is the forebrain

Answer 33

A part of the nervous system that contains the cerebral hemispheres, thalamus, and hypothalamus.

Question 34

What is Broco's Area

Answer 34

area of the brain associated with language production

Question 35

What are sulci?

Answer 35

crevices/fissures in the brain