Neuroplasticity

Learning changes your brain by: 

• Creating new neural pathways
• Decreasing neural output 
• creating more melatonin
• Synaptic Pruning 

The brains ability to change in response to experience, learning, and the environment: 

• Brain overload 
• Synaptic drift 
• neuroplasticity
• Brain disorganization 

London taxi drivers showed to have larger Hippocampus than that of bus drivers.  The hippocampus is thought to be associated with __________________________. 

• spacial-navigation and memory
• Being on time 
• impulse control 
• rational thought 

Sea Gypseys have 20% better underwater vision than any other group of people in the world  this is thought to be _______________ and is an example of ___________________. 

• Genetic and Synaptic 
• Brain based & rare 
• environmental & neuroplasticity

A process whereby the synaptic connections in the brain that are frequently used are preserved, and those that are not are lost.

• neurotoxicity
• brain pruning 
• synaptic pruning 
• brain tango 

Adolescence is often thought to be the 2nd largest period of brain development. 

• True 
• False 

The brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life. ________________ allows the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain to compensate for injury and disease and to adjust their activities in response to new situations or to changes in their environment.

• Cerebral Cortex 
• Synaptic Lag 
• Brain Drain 
• Neuroplasticity 

Carol is 7 years old and has had a hemispherectomy (The removal of one hemisphere of the brain) Carol's brain will: 

• Repair slower than an adults
• Repair faster than an adults
• Repair at the same rate as an adults
• No Idea

You have more synaptic connections as you age.

• True 
• False 

Neuroplasticity refers to changes in neural pathways & synapses due to changes in what? 

• Behavior
• Environment
• Thinking and Emotions
• All of the Above