BRAIN QUIZ #1 —GUIDE

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PART 1

1. Who’s got a brain? Hydra, fly or human being? Name the animal, stating whether it has a nervous system and a brain. 3 P

2. What percentage of the human body weight does the brain amount to? 1 P

3. What percentage of the human body energy (Oxygen) does the brain use? 1 P

4. What do the brain and the Milky Way have in common? 1 P

5. What did the philosopher René Descartes think was found in the pineal gland? What is considered to be its function today? 2 P

6. What did the philosopher Aristoteles think the brain was for? 1 P

7. What is this? Where does it occur? And who drew it? 3 P

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8. Name the 5 senses of the human being and 3 others (or advanced) in other animals. Name examples of animals. 4 P

9. Who has the largest brain/body ratio among the vertebrates? 1 P

10. Draw (or show) an optical illusion. 5 P

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11. Who is the artist? What is the relationship to neurological research? 2 P

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12. Which film features this dialogue? What is the name of the male main character? He started a foundation for the research of which illness and why? 4 P

“CALVIN? WH... WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING ME CALVIN?WELL, THAT IS YOUR NAME, ISN’T IT? CALVIN KLEIN? IT’S WRITTENALL OVER YOUR UNDERWEAR.”

13. From what neurological illness did the singer suffer? What’s the name of the band and the song.

“AND SHE SCREAMED OUT KICKING ON HER SIDE AND SAID,I’VE LOST CONTROL AGAIN.AND SEIZED UP ON THE FLOOR, I THOUGHT SHE’D DIE.SHE SAID I’VE LOST CONTROL. SHE’S LOST CONTROL AGAIN.”

14. Take a look at the drawings: Which illness do these patients have? 2 P

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15. What is this man’s name? What gene defect does he have and what is the device he is carrying on his head? 3 P

16. What is the name of the song and the band? (Hint: “Brain” is in the song title). 2 P

“YES I’M THE PIRATE PILOTOF THIS SHIP IF I GETWIT’ THE ULTRAVIOLET DREAMHIDE FROM THE RED LIGHT BEAMNOW DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE UNSEENLOOK, BUT DON’T MAKE YOUR EYES STRAIN”

17. What technology was featured in the Saarland whodunit “Toten-stille”? 1 P

18. How many people received a cochlea implant at the University Hospital Freiburg during 2014? 1 P

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19. Who had epilepsy 4 P

1) Alexander or Ceasar?2) Napoleon or Frederick the Great?3) Marx or Lenin?4) Chopin or Wagner?

20. Write a short poem ending with the word “brain”. BIS ZU 10 P

PART 3

21. What is the “Madeleine Effect”? What literary work does this concept refer to and who is the author? 3 P

22. What is a “brain freeze”, also known as sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia? 1 P

23. Name 3 brain parasites. 3 P

24. What is the function of liquor? 1 P

25. What was the most frequent neurological diagnosis at the University Hospital Freiburg and how many cases were there in 2014? 2 P

26. What animal eats its own brain when it settles? 1 P

27. What was the name of 2014 campaign to raise funds for neu-rodegenerative illness known as ALS? The campaign has raised more than $94 million for the ALS Association? 1 P

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28. Which athletes have a higher probability of suffering from ALS? 1 P

29. What is dementia pugilistica? And who was it that, after winning a third World Championship at the age of 36, announced his retirement from sport that had made him famous? 2 P

30. How much fat does the brain have? (dry mass) 1 P

31. What is this? How many people have something like this world-wide? Name one condition that it can help to treat. 3 P

32. Draw a neuron. 5 P

33. Fact of Fake 7 P

1) We only see the past. 2) Attention is localised in the cerebellum. 3) We only use 10% of the brain. 4) Classical music does not make one smart. 5) Alcohol kills brain cells. 6) New neurons are produced in the brain. 7) We have a logical left-brain and a creative right-brain.

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ANSWERSPART 1

1. Only vertebrates have brains in the most common definitions (brittanica). However, flys and hydras (polyps) have nerve cells. Flys have ganglia in the head region, a certain degree of cephalization.

2. 2 %

3. 20 %

4. The Milky Way has as many stars as there are nerve cells in a brain: aprox. 100 billion

5. Descartes speculated the soul was found in the pineal gland. It regulates circadian rhythms and melatonin secretion, sleep patterns.

6. To cool down the blood

7. Neurons of the brain, Nissl-stained motor cortex of a human adults — drawing by Ramon y Cajal

8. vision / hearing / smell / taste / touch / magnetic sense: birds / polarisation vision: sardines, mantis shrimp / Echolocation: bats / UV-Vision: Fish / Infrasound perception: mammals, including whale, elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros, pigeons / Thermoception: snakes / perception of electric fields: fish

9. 1:10 Tree Shrew

10. For example

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PART 2

11. Jörg Immendorf, he suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease of neurons that control the muscles: they are called motoneurons

12. Back to the Future , Michael J. Fox, Parkinson’s disease

13. Epilepsy, She’s Lost Control, Joy Division, Singer Ian Curtis, 1979 14. hemineglect, visual agnosia

15. Neil Harbisson, color blind, it is called “Eyeborg” and he can hear colors with it

16. Cypress Hill, The song is called “Insane in the Brain”

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18. 235 (between 150 and 300 is a correct answer) Source: Universität-sklinikum Freiburg

19. 1) Caesar / 2) Napoleon / 3) Lenin / 4) Chopin

20. Find 3 persons to choose the most creative poem

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PART 3

21. If a smell helps recall a memory, in “A la recherche du temps perdu” (Du côté de chez Swann) (“In Search of Lost Time”, “Swann’s Way”), Marcel Proust

22. Wenn you eat cold food or drink cold beverages and you get a headache. The cold sensation in the pallate irritates the trigem-inus nerv, this induces a constriction of the bloodvessels. And gives a headache.

23. Negreria Fowleri, Tape worm, Toxoplasma Gondii, Earworm,

24. For upholstry, the brain swims on it

25. 1.303 patients (1000-1500 is a point) — Stroke is the most com-mon diagnosis

26. The sea squirts or ascidians digest their “brain” that is actually more of a ganglion, as the sea squirts belong to the precurser of vertebrates the chordata.

27. Ice Bucket Challenge

28. Football/soccer player

29. 60% dryed mass

30. deep brain stimulation: Approximately 100 000 in the World (80 000 to 140 000 is OK). It treats Parkinson’s disease, Dystonie and Tourette

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31. Axon, dendrites, synapses, nucleus, myelin sheath should be sketched

32. Fact or Fake: 1) FACT — a 200ms time lag used to process sensory information, 2) FAKE — (non-sense), in the cortex — filter processes, that happen

in the parietal and frontal lob. 3) FAKE — “If a brain area was not used, those brain cells would

probably die off or take over functions of neighbouring brain regions” said Prof. Dr. Klaus Funke, neurophysiologist from Bonn, Germany, as he answered this question on www.das-Gehirn.info.

4) FACT — it does NOT make you smarter or at least only for a short time (as show IQ measurements performed directly after listen-ing to music) J. Pietschnig, M. Voracek, A. K. Formann: Mozart Effect—Shmozart Effekt: A meta-analysis. In: Intelligence, 38, 2010, S. 314–323.

5) FACT — alcool makes your brain volume shrink. Some cells in the cortex and the brainstem die off and myline sheats shrink — but this last part is reversible. http://alcalc.oxfordjournals.org/con-tent/44/2/136

6) FACT — in the hippocampus and the striatum (The subgranular zone (SGZ), part of the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus.[3] The striatum)

7) FAKE — Asymmetries can be found in the activity, but it is not uni-versal. Small differences can be found in the processing of lan-guage: the left brain is responsible for abstract concepts the right brain rather processes language melody. Conceptual thinking, spatial thinking, understanding numbers or face recognition are rather located in the right brain, perception of smell, time chang-es and of details is rather located in the left hemisphere. https://www.dasgehirn.info/aktuell/frage-an-das-gehirn/linke-und-re-chte-hirnhaelfte-verschiedene-welten

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SOURCES

WWW.PSYCHOLOGYTODAY.COM/BLOG/BRAIN-MYTHS/201206/WHY-THE-LEFT-BRAIN-

RIGHT-BRAIN-MYTH-WILL-PROBABLY-NEVER-DIE

WWW.BRAINFACTS.ORG/BRAIN-BASICS/NEUROANATOMY/ARTICLES/2012/LEFT-BRAINED-

OR-RIGHT-BRAINED/

WWW.DASGEHIRN.INFO

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