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What is a neuron?
The part of the neuron that brings information to the cell body.
What is a dendrite?
The part of the neuron that takes information away from the cell body.
What is a synapse?
The explosion of electrical activity sent down an axon when a neuron sends information.
What are the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system?
Name of the man who survived after an iron rod went through the frontal lobe of his brain in 1848.
What is epilepsy?
Weakness, paralysis, death of neurons in the motor cortex and spinal cord; named for a famous baseball player.
What is a neuroscientist?
Uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
What is MRI?
(Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
What is an EEG?
(Electroencephalography)
Scanning method that detects radioactive material that is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain.
What is PET?
(Positron Emission Tomography)
Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.
What is a CT scan?
(Computed Tomography Scan)
What is vision?