Neuroscience for Kids
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Neuroscience for Kids
3 interesting facts: Your brain gets energy from glucose, your brain is active even when you're sleeping, and the brain responds and adapts to its environment.3 things I'd like to know: how do feelings change, where does emotion come from, and is love a function of the brain.
Frontal lobe: located in the front of the central sulcus, deals with reasoning, motor skills, planning, speech, emotions, and problem solving.
Parietal lobe: behind central sulcus, deals with touch, pain, pressure, and temperature.
Temporal lobe: behind lateral fissure, deals with hearing and memory
Occipital lobe: back of brain, deals with vision
2 functions of the ANS: parasympathetic and sympathetic
Sympathetic: pupil dilates, heart rate increases, bronchial muscle relaxes
Parasympathetic: pupil shrinks, heart rate decreases, and bronchial muscle contracts
Lesion Production: Destruction of a particular part of the brain
Electrical Brain Stimulation: Stimulation of a brain area by passing electrical current through an electrode.
Cell Body Staining: Coloring neurons to see individual neurons
12a. depressant
12b. low dose-
* reduces tension
* lowers inhibitions
* impairs concentration
* slows reflexes
* impairs reaction time
* reduces coordination
medium-
* slur speech
* cause drowsiness
* alter emotions
high-
* vomiting
* breathing difficulties
* unconsciousness
* coma
12c. Increased turnover of norepinephrine and dopamine, decreased transmission in acetylcholine systems, increased transmission in GABA systems, and increased production of beta-endorphin in the hypothalamus
12d. 2 drinks
12e. yes
12f. I wish
12g. yes, because its wrong
12h. small head, mental retardation, poor coordination, hyperactivity, and abnormal facial features
12i.
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