brain

     

In animals, the brain is the control center of the central nervous system, responsible for behavior. In mammals, the brain is locate in the head, protected by the skull and close to the primary sensory apparatus of vision, hearing, equilibrioception (balance), sense of taste, and olfaction (smell).

Trivia about brain

  • Roger Sperry's studies of how this organ's halves split up processes won him a 1981 Nobel Prize
  • In 2000 Indiana University researchers found men only listen with the left half of this
  • An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ
  • The eye facilitates, but the actual process of seeing is performed by this organ
  • Thromboses & embolisms are common causes of strokes, the interruption of the blood supply to this organ
  • The optic nerve transmits impulses between the eyes & this organ
  • Victorians believed the bigger & heavier this organ was, the smarter you were; Thackeray's was 3 lbs. 10 oz.
  • The pons, meaning "bridge", connects the medulla to higher parts of this organ
  • We think this organ has over 12 billion neurons & 50 billion glial cells
  • Mensa's organ of choice
  • Parietal lobe,Thalamus,Cerebellum
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Cairo, Egypt.) Ironically, this organ was considered of minor importance, crudely removed through the nose & often not preserved
  • The circle of Willis, a ring of arteries in this organ, is a fail-safe system to ensure it a steady blood supply
  • World Book describes this organ as a "grayish-pink jellylike ball with many ridges and grooves"
  • Dehydrated organs suck water from this one, making it shrink & causing those hangover headaches
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew scubadiving) A stretched & twisted polyp forms the coral seen here, named for this human body part
  • You & I have about 1,350 cc. of capacity for this organ; Homo habilis, 2 million years ago, had 500-800
  • The pineal gland is a pea-sized organ located in this supervisory center of the nervous system
  • Your pineal gland is inside this organ
  • Encephalon is another name for this organ
  • If an electroencephalograph detects no activity here, the patient is in deep trouble
  • A part of the body: cerebro
  • The cerebrum, a major part of this organ, is said to look like a large, shelled walnut
  • Betty Edwards' 1979 bestseller on creativity was called "Drawing on the Right Side of" this
  • What we usually call the gray & white matter is the nerve tissue of the spinal cord & this organ
  • Neurons don't weigh much; why, there are billions of them in this roughly 3-pound organ
  • On the subject of painting, Picasso said, "If only we could pull out" this organ & "use only our eyes"
  • The central nervous system of the body consists of the spinal cord & this organ
  • The Scarecrow before he meets the Wizard of Oz
  • Guinness says the smallest one of these among the dinos was the walnut-sized one of the 30-foot stegosaurus
  • Much of the cortical surface of this is hidden in grooves called sulci
  • World Book describes it as a "grayish-pink, jellylike ball with many ridges and grooves"
  • Encephalitis
  • The diencephalon, part of this organ, includes the thalamus
  • The hypothesis that the external world is a delusion is called this organ "in a Vat"
  • To cure Parkinson's, scientists are now trying cell grafts in this part of the body
  • The inquest finds the cause of death to be hypoxic encephalopathy, a lack of oxygen to this organ
  • Hail, Hail, the basal ganglia are here in this organ
  • Weighing about 3 pounds, it has more than 10 billion neurons, which works out to... argh, mine hurts
  • Oops! Rex finds out the hard way this body part's neocortex is nowhere near the groin in "I Wanna Be a Surgeon!"
  • A lobectomy removes one of the 5 lobes of the lungs; a lobotomy takes out part of this organ
  • As a noun it includes the cerebrum; as a verb it means "to smash on the head"
  • This organ weighs 12 ounces at birth, grows to 3 pounds in adulthood & contains about 10 billion neurons
  • Maurice LaMarche found his inner Orson Welles to voice this rodent whose simple goal was to take over the world
  • The dura mater is the outermost protective layer that covers the spinal cord & this organ

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