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WorksheetsFrom Head To Toe : How Does Brain (Not) Function
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Where did the Pint of Science started ?
US, New York, Bronx
UK, London College
Small suburb town in Australia
France, Paris
Henry Molaison, aka H.M., could not make new memories, after the surgical removal of stuff from his brain to treat severe epilepsy. While tragic, this was pivotal in the discovery of the role of hippocampus in memory formation. In which of these movies, does the central character also portray an anterograde memory loss ?
50 first dates
50 shades of grey
Twilight: New Moon
Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Oliver Sacks (1933-2015), was a British neurologist, naturalist, and a prolific writer. His memoire titled ‘Awakenings’, chronicles the life history of victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargic epidemic and his efforts in 1960s to help these patients with L-DOPA, and was made into a 1990 movie by the same name, with Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. Your question, what is the bike you see Dr Sack straddled on in the cover photo (1961) of his rather brilliant autobiography?
Ducati 250 Mach 1
BMW R1250GS
Yamaha MT-01
BMW r60
Mayim Bialik, earned her doctorate from UCLA in 2007 writing her dissertation on “Hypothalamic regulation in relation to maladaptive, obsessive-compulsive, affiliative and satiety behaviors in Prader-Willi Syndrome”. She is of course, better known for playing Amy Farrah Fowler in the American American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Inspired from her real life, her character is a neurobiologist in the series. Question, what did Amy’s character study ?
Substance addiction in primates and invertebrates
Cortical computation underlying perception
Decision-making under uncertainty
Sheldon’s perfect pitch
Claude Shannon, a pioneer in the field of information theory, built one of the world’s first examples of machine-learning – a maze-solving robotic mouse. He named the mouse after a character in ancient Greek mythology who successfully navigates out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth. What is the name ?
Theseus
Algernon
Speedy Gonzales
Nibbles
Which organ do microglia populate ?
The liver
The brain
The eye
The colon
How was Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov known to be ?
Father of innate immunity
Uncle of adaptive immunity
Son of anatomical barriers
Cousin of antibody response
What do microglia not eat in the body ?
Dead cells
Synapses
Pathogens
Hair follicule
What does "Macrophage" stand for ?
From sarcophagus in Ancient Egypt
From greek - macro (big) and -phagein (eat)
Big cells
How do you adapt exercises to the need of the individual's psychological and physical tolerance ?
Depending on the mood
Scaling
According to Instagram's advice
Pushing to the highest
What are functional exercises ?
Type of fitness involving heavy devices
Really specialized and precise moves
Movements used in daily life
Exercises that enhances the body functions
What is the cause of cerebral palsy ?
Abnormal development or damage to the brain during pregnancy, childbirth or after birth
Inherited genetic mutation
Metabolic disorder arising due to unbalanced diet
Neurodegenerative affection causing deterioration of certain nerves in the brain
Why were patients with cerebral palsy instructed not to do any strength training in the past ?
Fear of increased spasticity
They would not be strong enough
It would be too time-consuming to train them
The devices were not adapted to their morphology
