Neuroscience for Kids

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.