Neuroscience Quizzes & Trivia

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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: 5112 | 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: 592 | 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

Test Your Brain With Facts And Questions About The Brain: Neuroscience Quiz

Test your brain with facts and questions about the brain !

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 302 | Last updated: Dec 26, 2018

Sample Question
What if we lined up all the neurons in our body? How long would that line stretch?

100,000,000,000 neurons x 10 microns= 1000 km or about 600 miles

100,000,000,000,000 neuron x 10 microns= 5000 km or about 500 miles

10 neurons x 10 microns= 100 km or about 60 miles

1,000 neurons x 10 microns= 1000 km or about 600 miles

Semester 2 Neuro, Quiz 4 - Basal Ganglia

Questions: 12 | Attempts: 300 | 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

Neuroscience Quiz

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 264 | Last updated: Apr 8, 2015

Sample Question
What is Alzheimer's?

A disease in the organ that can cause cancer

A game played in Hawaii

A disease called (AD), which can be a slowly progressive disease

An organ in the brain that can cause diabetes

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Which of the following arteries blockage would lead to major sensory and motor deficits that are particularly prominent in the upper extremity?

.Middle cerebral artery The middle cerebral artery supplies blood to the lateral portion of the cerebral hemisphere. This is an area where most of the primary motor cortex and primary somatosensory cortex is located. As a result, the loss of blood f

What is the most likely diagnosis for this patient? A 58-year-old left-handed man is referred to a neurologist for "involuntary left-hand twitches". Between six months and a year ago he noticed...

Parkinson's disease is the most likely diagnosis for this patient. Parkinson's disease is a cumulative nervous system disorder that influences movement. The symptoms of the disease start gradually, and sometimes it may start with barely a noticeable

How can you make learning Neuroscience less hard?

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Which of the following would be a negative symptom of schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a mental illness where patients start to hear voices in their heads. They can develop split personalities and often believe that someone is telling them to do something. Such patients often repeat senseless words and phrases. Sometim