neuroclub jeopardy
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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?