Exploring the Brain: A Quiz on Neuroscience Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

studies by Mark Rosenzweig showed that the brain (pictured) develops anatomically into adulthood based on life experiences, overturning conventional wisdom that it reached full maturity in childhood.

studies with sham surgery in humans have shown that treatments with cell transplants into the brains of patients with Parkinson disease were ineffective.

the laboratory of Dr. Wade Regehr conducts research on axon terminals in the brain to further understanding of disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, and clinical depression.

when Auguste Forel named the zona incerta area of the brain in 1877, he did so because it was a "region of which nothing certain can be said".

NicVax causes an immune response that prevents nicotine from reaching the brain.

Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like.

cloud-busters claim to use energy from their brain's prefrontal lobe to dissipate clouds.

globs are millimeter sized modules in the V4 complex part of the brain where humans and other primates first perceive color hue.

Ice is a highly addictive methamphetamine and that when it is smoked it causes a massive release of dopamine in the brain.

mushroom bodies have nothing to do with fungi, but are part of the brain anatomy of arthropods.

ablative brain surgery, which involves destroying brain tissue by heat or freezing, was used until recently in the People's Republic of China to treat people with schizophrenia.

Exploring the Brain: A Quiz on Neuroscience

1 More sophisticated approaches are also beginning to be used: for example, using the ________ method it is possible to activate or inactivate genes in specific parts of the brain, at specific times.

2 The first vertebrates appeared over 500 million years ago (mya), during the Cambrian period, and may have somewhat resembled the modern ________ in form.

3 In primates, the neocortex is greatly enlarged, especially the part called the ________.

4 The field of ________ encompasses all approaches that seek to understand the brain and the rest of the nervous system.

5 What does the following picture show? A chimpanzee brain A chimpanzee brain PET Image of the human brain showing energy consumption

6 The mind-body problem is one of the central issues in the history of ________, which asks us to consider if the brain and the mind are identical, partially distinct, or related in some unknown way.

7 The ________ is the part of the brain that most strongly distinguishes mammals from other vertebrates, primates from other mammals, and humans from other primates.

8 [1] Some primitive animals such as jellyfish and starfish have a decentralized nervous system without a brain, while ________ lack any nervous system at all.

9 [23] The first appearance of the nervous system is as a thin strip of tissue running along the back of the ________.

10 [52] In the projection from the eye to the midbrain, for example, the structure in the adult contains a very precise mapping, connecting each point on the surface of the ________ to a corresponding point in a midbrain layer.

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