Neuroscience Quizzes & Trivia

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Questions: 12 | Attempts: 2533 | Last updated: Feb 12, 2013

Sample Question
An 83-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by his daughter, who explains that her father started having "fits." The examination reveaIs an alert, otherwise healthy, man who frequently has uncontrollable flailing movements of his left arm. Which of the following structures is most likely involved in this lesion?

CerebelIar cortex plus nuclei

Lenticular nucleus

Subthalamic nucleus

Ventral lateral nucleus

Ventral posterolateral nucleus

Test Your Neuroscience Know-how

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,...

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 14512 | Last updated: Jan 23, 2013

Sample Question
To the closest pound, how heavy is the average adult brain?

Three pounds

Two pounds

One pound

Neuroscience Exam Practice Quiz

The brain is the single most complex organ in the entire human body, and today we’ll be asking a heap of questions regarding it as we focus on the study of neuroscience – also known as the study of the nervous system....

Questions: 44 | Attempts: 1321 | Last updated: Jan 4, 2019

Sample Question
The following are all major components of the brainstem except

The pons

The cerebellum

The medulla oblongata

The midbrain

The diencephalon

Neuroscience Test 1 Review

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 473 | Last updated: Mar 28, 2017

Sample Question
What area is located in/on the precentral gyrus?

Primary auditory cortex

Visual association cortex

Primary visual cortex

Primary motor cortex

Primary somatosensory cortex

S2.B1 Meninges

Neuroscience Meninges lecture

Questions: 27 | Attempts: 331 | Last updated: Jan 22, 2013

Sample Question
What is most responsible for forming compartments in the cranial cavity?

Meningeal sinuses

Pia mater

Meningeal septa

Arachnoid mater

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How can you make learning Neuroscience less hard?

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What does not apply/support Burian's Sensory Theory?

The sensory theory not only successfully explains confusion and diplopia but it also explains co-variation and therefore it is the prevailing explanation for ac -the problem or the major criticism of sensory theory is that it depends on very precise

What are the symptoms of pituitary tumor?

1. pituitary tumor (causing acromegaly) growing downwards toward the sphenoidsinus instead of upwards, therefore not causing visual deficits.-already in childhood. later he continued to overproduce gh, so he developedacromegaly (looking like shrek).