Welcome!The Topic For Today Is…

Neuroscience!

By Jessica Salas and Collin Phillips

Choose WiselyNeural Processing

Brain Parts Genetics Neural Systems Miscellaneous

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts

Neural Process: 200

• Question:• A layer of fatty tissue segmentally encasing the

fibers of many neurons?• Answer• What is Myelin Sheath!

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Neural Process: 400

• Question:• Neurotransmitter enabling muscle action,

learning, and memory?• Answer• What is Acetecholine (Ach)!

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Neural Process: 600

• Question:• Molecule similar enough in structure to mimic

the effect of a neurotransmitter.• Answer• What is an Agonist!

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Neural Process: 800

• Question:• Excitatory signals minus inhibitory signals and

exceeding a minimum intensity? (The minimum amount of stimulation needed for neural firing)

• Answer• What is Threshold!

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Neural Process: 1000

• Question:• Neurotransmitter influencing movement,

learning, attention, and emotion?• Answer• What is Dopamine!

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Brain Parts: 200

• Question:• An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that

controls voluntary movements?• Answer• What is the Motor Cortex!

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Brain Parts: 400

• Question:• The base of the brainstem controlling

heartbeat and breathing?• Answer• What is the Medulla!

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Brain Parts: 600

• Question:• Influences hunger, thirst, body temperature,

and sexual desire? (Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll!)

• Answer• What is the Hypothalamus!

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Brain Parts: 800

• Question:• Visual cortex, angular gyrus, Wernicke’s area,

Broca’s area, and motor cortex are involved in what type of processing?

• Answer• What is Language!

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Brain Parts: 1000• Question:• A condition resulting from surgery that

isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them?

• Answer• What is Split Brain!

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Genetics: 200

• Question:• Complete instructions for making an

organism?• Answer• What is a Genome!

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Genetics: 400

• Question:• The study of the relative power and limits of

genetic and environmental influences on behavior? (Study of genetic and environmental influences on behavior?)

• Answer• What is Behavior Genetics!

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Genetics: 600

• Question:• A complex molecule containing the genetic

information that makes up the chromosomes?• Answer• What is DNA!

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Genetics: 800

• Question:• A random error in gene replication that leads

to a change? (Red hair is an example of this)• Answer• What is Mutation! (Red-headed mutants!)

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Genetics: 1000

• Question:• The extent to which variation among individuals

in attributable to their differing genes?• Answer• What is Heritability!• Ex) If the heritability of height is 90%, this DOES

NOT mean a woman can attribute 54 inches to genes and the other 6 to environment!

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Neural Systems: 200

• Question:• The body’s speedy, electrochemical

communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems?

• Answer• What is Nervous System!

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Neural Systems: 400

• Question:• The sensory and motor neurons that connect

the central nervous system (CNS) to the rest of the body?

• Answer• What is Peripheral Nervous System! (PNS)

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Neural Systems: 600

• Question:• The part of the peripheral nervous system that

controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs? (Hint: it has 2 divisions)

• Answer• What is Autonomic Nervous System!

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Neural Systems: 800

• Question:• System that increases heart rate, blood

pressure, blood glucose, perspirations, and slows digestion?

• Answer• What is Sympathetic Nervous System!

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Neural Systems: 1000

• Question:• System that calms the body, decreasing heart

rate, blood pressure, blood glucose, and perspirations?

• Answer• What is Parasympathetic Nervous System!

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Miscellaneous: 200

• Question:• Theory that claimed bumps on the skull could

reveal our mental abilities and character traits?

• Answer• What is Phrenology!

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Miscellaneous: 400

• Question:• A branch of psychology concerned with the

links between biology and behavior? (Think behavioral neuroscientist, neuropsychologist, behavior geneticist, physiological psychologist, or biopsychologist!)

• Answer• What is Biological Psychology!

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Miscellaneous: 600

• Question:• A simple, automatic response to a sensory

stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response?• Answer• What is a Reflex!

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Miscellaneous: 800

• Question:• Endocrine system’s master gland?• Answer• What is the Pituitary Gland! Under the

influence of the hypothalamus, it regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands.

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Miscellaneous: 1000

• Question:• A technique for revealing blood flow and,

therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans?

• Answer• What is an fMRI! (functional MRI)

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Bonus Question: 5000 pts.

• Question:• Man whose frontal lobe was impaled by a rod

damaging his frontal lobe and changed him from affable and soft-spoken to irritable, profane, and dishonest?

• Answer• Drum roll!• What is Phineas Gage!

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Daily Double

The Winner Of The Last RoundWrite Down How Much Money

You Are Willing To RiskIf You get the Question right you win that money

If you get it wrong you Loss the money!

Daily Double

The Winner Of The Last RoundWrite Down How Much Money

You Are Willing To RiskIf You get the Question right you win that money

If you get it wrong you Loss the money!