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Brain
The center of our nervous system and daily thoughts, the brain is a complex, magnificent organ. Ask questions about parts of the brain and their functions here.
2,537 Questions
Do you use both sides of your brain when you play chess?
Yes, playing chess involves both hemispheres of the brain.
What are the two sides of your brain called?
The two sides of your brain are called the left and right hemispheres.
The Wikipedia article would be a reasonable place to begin research into this matter. One can refer to the sources listed at the bottom of the article. See link below.
The brain itself does not pulse, but it does have a blood flow. The veins and arteries do have a pulse.
What do you call the folds that can be found in the brain?
The folds on the surface of the brain are called gyri.
Why is snot not the goo from the brain?
Because it is mucus from ur nose not ur brain.
2nd Answer:
Snot (Nasal mucus) is created from glands in your upper nose area that are separated from the brain by a sheet of bone.
The brain has no "goo" - the brain floats in a very watery substance.
What is neurotransmitter tone?
Tone denotes the concentration of neurotransmitter within a given region of the nervous system. A lot of glutamate indicates a high excitatory, glutamatergic tone.
What area in the brain acts as a final switching station for most incoming sensory information?
thalamus
What will happen to a person who loses too much oxygen and is then revived?
You have established in the question that too much oxygen has been lost, so this means that there will be some degree of impairment due to brain damage. How much impairment will depend on how little oxygen the brain received, over how long a period, and on the temperature of the brain.
What folds in the brain and store memories?
It is not sufficient to describe memory, and its counterpart, learning, as solely dependent on specific brain regions such as the folds of the brain.
Brain areas involved in the neuroanatomy of memory such as the hippocampus, the amygdala, the striatum, or the mammillary bodies are thought to be involved in specific types of memory.
Memory is actually stored in the spaces between the neurons and not in or on certain folds.
- Sometimes incorrectly done procedures during birth
- Inadequate or insufficient stimulation during infancy and childhood
- Physical trauma
- Excessive radiation
- Excessive heat
- Excessive pressure
- Oxygen starvation
- Stroke
- Long-term alcoholism and/or continuing to drink with a physiological dependence on alcohol
- Several drugs if misused enough
- Mother's substance abuse during pregnancy
A prediction is a process of forecasting what will happen based on new experiences and evidence.?
True
What are you dreaming about when you sleep?
The usual answer is that while dreaming, you're reliving the events of the day, while your subconscious forms associations and decides what you ought to remember and can safely forget.
Those dreams that you do remember can seem jumbled because your conscious mind is not often privy to what your subconscious is doing, nor how it likes to organize your thoughts and memories.
When might having an increasingly larger brain size no longer be a selective advantage?
When the brain becomes so large that the baby cannot properly be born (as in, the head is too large to fit through the mother's vagina), it's no longer an advantage.
What does 'The left hemisphere of your brain is dominant over the right hemisphere' mean?
Simplistically, our brains and bodies are cross wired. The left side of our brains controls the right sides of our bodies, and the Right Side of our brain control the left side of our bodies. also it means that your logical and analytical side of your brain control you. also you are probably right handed.
