Test Your Neuroscience Know-how
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Are you smarter than a Brain Bee contestant? The following 10 questions were used in high school Brain Bee competitions (live Q&A competitions that test neuroscience knowledge). These competitions can span several rounds, but we’ve decided to start off slow – all the questions are from round one. Can you get to round two? To proceed, you must get seven out of ten questions correct. Good luck!
- 1.To the closest pound, how heavy is the average adult brain?
- A.
Three pounds
- B.
Two pounds
- C.
One pound
- 2.What does the eye’s lens do to the orientation of the visual image?
- A.
Rotates it right
- B.
Rotates it left
- C.
It turns it upside down
- 3.About how many nerve cells are in the human brain?
- A.
1 Billion
- B.
10 Billion
- C.
100 Billion
- 4.Holding a memory in mind while we think about it is called what type of memory?
- A.
Procedural memory
- B.
Working/short term memory
- C.
Momentary memory
- 5.During what period of sleep do we dream?
- A.
Stage IV sleep
- B.
NREM sleep
- C.
REM sleep
- 6.Name the contact points where one neuron communicates with another.
- A.
Somas
- B.
Synapses
- C.
Axon terminals
- 7.What do you call it when a blood vessel in the brain bursts or suddenly becomes clogged?
- A.
Stroke
- B.
Aneurysm
- C.
Aphasia
- 8.What do you call an involuntary, fixed muscle response to a particular stimulus?
- A.
Spasm
- B.
Reflex
- C.
Dystonia
- 9.Name the part of the brain that is important for emotional learning and memory and its dysfunction is related to anxiety disorders.
- A.
Amygdala
- B.
Thalamus
- C.
Hippocampus
- 10.Name the disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and disturbances of thought and emotions.
- A.
Manic-depressive disorder
- B.
Huntington’s chorea
- C.
Schizophrenia
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