Neuroclub jeopardy

Usage Guidelines for Jeopardy PowerPoint Game

Game Setup

• Right now, Click File > Save As, and save this template with a different file name. This will keep the template untouched, so you can use it next time!

• Scroll through the presentation and enter the answers (which are really the questions) and the questions (which are really the answers).

• Enter in the five category names on the main game board (Slide 4).

Game Play

• Open 2nd Slide, let the sound play. Click to 3rd Slide, let the sound play. Click to 4th Slide and show students the Game Board

• As you play the game, click on the YELLOW DOLLAR AMOUNT that the contestant calls, not the surrounding box.

• When the student answers, click anywhere on the screen to see the correct answer. Keep track of which questions have already been picked by printing out the game board screen (Slide 4) and checking off as you go.

• Click on the “House / Home Icon” box to return to the main scoreboard.

• Final Jeopardy – Go to Slide 3 and click “Final Jeopardy” button in the bottom right corner, click again for the Question, click again for final jeopardy sound, When that is finished playing click again for the answer slide.

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I “lobe” you DiseaseParts of

the NeuronPicture this

MethodPotpourri

A kick to the head in this area can leave someone with visual

impairments

What is the occipital lobe?

Associated with planning, reasoning, parts of speech,

problem solving, and executive functions

What is the frontal lobe?

Stanford marshmallow experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_oy9614HQ

Associated with the movement, orientation, hosts the somatosensory cortex

What is the parietal lobe?

This lobe contains the Wernicke’s area, and is also known for

auditory processing

What is the temporal lobe?

Phineas Gage, a railroad construction worker, experienced a change of personality when he underwent an accident affecting

this lobe

What is the frontal lobe?

A neurodegenerative disease characterized by tremors

Celebrities afflicted: Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali, and Adolf

Hitler

What is Parkinson’s Disease?

A slow, gradual disease, characterized by memory loss

and dementia

Effects over 1 million Americans

What is Alzheimer’s Disease?

Hippocampal shrinkage, ventricular enlargement, cortical shrinkage

Lewy bodies, tangles

DAILY DOUBLE

DAILY DOUBLE

The most widespread mental health disorder, affecting 17.6

million people, about 1/15 individuals

Can be genetic, or from the “environment”

What is Depression?• Most common version is Unipolar (major),

as opposed to Bipolar (manic)

• Loss of interest, loss of energy, poor concentration, numbness, general “loss”

• Genetic predisposing factors / environmental triggers

• Treated by SSRIs

Early developmental “syndrome”, leads to

physical/mental defects

Result of mother’s consumption of ______ during pregnancy

What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

• Harmful substances than can be ingested by the mother and felt by the child are called: “teratogens”

• Certain pharma drugs, illicit drugs, cigarettes

Extreme fear of strangers, foreigners

What is Xenophobia?

• Most common is Social phobia (fear of humiliation in social situations)

• May be related to activation of the Amygdala

Long, slender projection from neuron, transmits electrical

signals away from the neuron’s cell body

What is an axon?

Branch-like projections from the neuron’s cell body, usually

receive signals transmitted by other cells

What are dendrites?

Another name for the neuron cell body

Contains the nucleus, microtubules, and a variety of

organelles

What is soma?

Material that forms a layer around the axon, electrically

insulating

What is the Myelin Sheath?

Gaps between fatty cells on axon

Allow for salutatory conduction across axon

What are the nodes of Ranvier?

What is MRI?Magnetic Resonance Imaging

What is EEG?Electroencephalography

What is fMRI?Functional Magnetic Resonance

What is a CT/CAT scan?Computed Tomography /

Computed axial Tomography

What is a PET scan?Positron Emission Tomography

This type of brain injury is all too common in contact sports,

especially those in which contact is made with the head

What are concussions?

This product is an acetylcholine antagonist some people use in order to make their face look

years younger

What is botox?Botulinum toxin A

The opposite of caudal (tail end), towards the head end of the

nervous system

What is rostral?

The valleys between the folds or gyri (sing. gyrus) of the brain

What are sulci? (sing. sulcus)

Who are Dr. V.S. Ramachandran / Dr. Robert M.

Sapolsky

Search both of these professors! They are both incredible

lecturers.Points awarded for either answer

This region of the cerebral cortex is not fully developed in

teenagers, leading a higher population of them to make poor decisions, fail to plan ahead of

time, and act according to #YOLO.

What is the Prefrontal Cortex?