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brains

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In most species, sleep cycles follow a circadian ___________.
A neuron's 'soma' is its cell _________.
Signals do not travel ___ the axon to the cell body; rather they travel down the axon away from the cell body.
Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to _____________ itself, in response to new experiences or injury, throughout a persons’ life.
An outdated pseudo-science that assigned personality traits to various brain areas and predicted skull bumps over areas corresponding to well developed traits
This part of the cortex is large in humans, and is devoted to executive functions.
The temporal _______ contains the hippocampus, the amygdala, Wernicke's area for speech comprehension, the primary auditory cortex, and the primary olfactory cortex (and many other areas)
These cells wrap myelin around axons to protect and insulate them
Phantom hand pain can be cured with a mirror _________. The patient sees the mirror image of his healthy hand where the amputated hand should be. the visual input of him wiggling his fingers resolves the feeling that his phantom hand is stuck and in pain
Someone who _____ right parietal lobe damage may suffer from left hemispatial neglect.
'Gage is no longer _______' was said by those who observed dramatic personality changes in Phineas Gage after his injury.
The somato-_______ _______ is band across the top of the parietal lobe. it receives data from touch receptors over the entire body
One of our executive functions is emotional ___________________.
Phineas Gage's tamping _____ and skull are preserved in a Boston museum.
Most brain structures come in pairs, but you have only ____ corpus callosum.
Rapid eye movements between fixation points
Dormio measures heart rate, respiration rate, brain waves, etc and uses all these ________ to determine what stage of sleep you are in.
The left and right hands of people with alien hand syndrome will often get in a __________ (synonym of argument) about what course of action to take
Dormio will ________ you to inquire about and record your dreams
The frontal, parietal and temporal lobes were several stops on our brain _________, (we still have more places to visit)
It's not like your brain is ___ when awake and off when sleeping. it's always active.
“If the human brain were ___ simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” ― Emerson M. Pugh
"a little man" a distorted 3D map of how our sensory and motor cortices connect with the body
According Darwin's theory of evolution, which we'll explore next term, a _____ brain is one likely to assist an individual in surviving long enough to reproduce.
In House MD, House called the right brain "a _____ loser," because it's usually the left brain that deals with speech and language. He thereby completely discounted the right brain's crucial roles such as its visuo-spatial abilities
Where someone would be taken today after a severe brain injury like that of Phineas Gage
Without the amydala, you would have almost ____ ability to tag experiences as emotional and therefore important to remember
Thanks to our parietal lobes most of us are good at recognizing ____________.
As sophisticated as our brains are, we are easily __________ .
A neuron's most ________ talent is in sending and receiving signals
It was clear that HM's procedural memory was in tact from his ability to learn to draw a _______ within outlines, while looking at his drawing in a mirror
Stephen Wiltshire can memorize vast numbers of visual details of city in a single short__________ ride
Prefix relating to nerves or the nervous system
Research is being done using dormio to _______ PTSD patients of their nightmares
As an evolutionary __________ to fit more cortex in our skulls, we evolved convoluted cortices (sulci and gyri)
Panpsychism says that everything, even a _________, has an element of individual consciousness.
Stephen Wiltshire uses his uncanny visual memory to create epically detailed _____.
_____________ memory is a synonym for Autobiographical memory
Part of the Dormio device is worn around your __________.
To get in touch with the patterns of your dreams keep a dream __________.
People with ____________ (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memories), often have very organized memories of each day of their lives since their adolescence.
Many creative people believe that exploring the dreamy creative hypnogogic period between wake and sleep, can heighten the ___________
C. elegans is the scientific name of what kind of creature whose 300 or so neurons and 7000 or so synapses have been completely mapped?
A neuron's many branching dendrites resembles a _________
It wraps around axons to protect and electrically insulate them.
Verticales
The one syllable that Broca's expressive aphasia patient could say
Prefix meaning many
Would you ______ dormio if it were available in stores.
State-__________________ learning, says that if you learn something in a certain State of Mind, you will recall it better when you are again in that same state
Delta waves are the slowest brain wave, sometimes traveling at less than one cycle ____ second
Common lab animal
Your entire ________ - being depends upon good sleep, exercise and good nutrition
Jan Scheuermann could use her mind to ______ a robotic arm in the gesture of a handshake.
The ___________ effect occurs when the patterns of repeated daily activities appear in your hypnagogic thoughts and dreams. for example when you play a game with moving clumps of cubes you'll see them again in your mind as you fall asleep
The gland that makes melatonin
The __________ hand illusion tricks you into taking body ownership of a fake hand
"I do _____ think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... " -Nikola Tesla
The brain requires a constant supply of both ________ and glucose
The _________ cells assist the neurons and they outnumber them as well
The plural of cortex
A _______ occurs when neurons die because of an interrupted blood supply, preventing brain tissue from getting oxygen and glucose.
Brenda Milner, who brought to light HM's severe memory impairment, was a _____, as she likely saved future patients from undergoing devastating surgical removal of important temporal lobe structures.
A neuron's output cable
The Prefrontal Cortex receives inputs from most other areas of the brain, __ that it can perform its many executive functions
a state of deep unconsciousness, caused by injury or illness. "a road crash left him in a __________"
A mammal that shares many brain features with us, such as all the major lobes, corpus callosum, cerebellum etc...
A left brain specialty
Neuroscientists have _______ many brain structures to their functions, but there are still many mysteries to be discovered
For each of the 5 _______ there is a primary sensory cortex that receives the sensory data, as well as association areas that give meaning to the sensory data,
The most restorative brain waves
The __________ of sleep include stage 1 (falling asleep), stage 2 (transitional), stages 3/4 (deep sleep), and rem sleep
HM's preserved short-term memory enabled him to ___ well conversationally even if he couldn't recall the start of the conversation
Number of cerebral hemispheres
Number of lobes in each hemisphere
Do you believe further research will ______ us to understand consciousness?
Sherlock says, “I am a brain, Watson. The rest __ me is a mere appendix.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle,
This sea-horse shaped structure in the temporal lobe is essential in laying down long term autobiographical and semantic memories
Both theta and alpha brain waves have been linked with the practice of _______________
You are _________ of your environment during deep sleep
Spooky quote by J. K. Rowling, "Never trust anything that can think for itself, ___ you can't see where it keeps its brain."
A longterm memory is a complex web of fragments throughout the brain. Each fragment is _______ in the part of the brain that originally experienced it.
An important purpose of our memories is to help us ___________ the future
The case of Phineas Gage indicated that the frontal lobe has much to do with ______________.
A benefit of becoming aware that you're dreaming is the ability to choose to ______ a bad dream
Improved mood, learning, will power and cognition are some of the ____ reasons to get good sleep
The part of the brainstem which keeps you paralyzed during rem sleep by preventing signals from the motor cortex reaching your muscles
The unit of frequency (one cycle per second)
When you become aware that you are dreaming you have entered the __________ dream state.
The _________ motor neurons run from the motor cortex to the spinal cord, whereas the lower motor neurons go from the spinal cord to the muscles
A dolphin sleeps with one ____ open, and the opposite hemisphere awake
The ____________ hand syndrome can occur if the corpus callosum has been cut or otherwise damaged, leaving the 2 hemispheres to act independently.
After Tan's ________ Paul Broca did an autopsy and located a lesion in his frontal lobe
Playing _______-fit, an interactive game in which you control a "mii" in various physical activities, can increase your ability to dream vividly and lucidly.
Hypnotic brain waves
A creepy quote by a celebrated physician “If I became just a brain in a ____ – as long as I can communicate back and forth with people, that would be okay with me.”
researchers reported on a body ownership experiment in mice called the Rubber _______ experiment.
The place of the lesion in 74 down is now known as Broca's _________
A patient whose cortex was stimulated at the border between her parietal and temporal lobes reported the feeling of floating above and looking down on her body. This is known as an _____ of body experience
Michio Kaku famously said, "Sitting ___ your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe"