Download Computer Research II Drugs and Mind

Brain In Search of Itself
Looking at your brain and its parts:
Go to: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html or use the link off my website.
Under Brain Basics, click Divisions of the Nervous System
1a. How many parts make up the central nervous system? List the parts.
2a. How much does an adult brain weigh? _______________________________________
3a. How many nerve cells are there in the brain? ____________________________________
4a. What is a special cell in the brain and what does it do? _____________________________
Click BACK and go to The Neuron and choose Millions and Billions of Cells
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/cells.html
1b. What is a neuron? ______________________
2b. What does it do?_______________________________________________________________
3b. How are neurons similar to other cells?
4b. How are neurons different from other cells?
Structure of Neuron: Examine the diagrams and answer the following:
6b. Draw a normal neuron.
7b. Neurons can be classified by the direction they send information:
1.
2.
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3.
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8b. Differences between
AXONS
and
DENDRITES:
9b. Do you have as many nerve cells when you die as when you were born? Why? _______
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Take the neuron quiz at the end
3. Go BACK and click GLIA: The Forgotten Brain Cell
1c. Read and write the 5 types of glia cells:
4. Go BACK and click Salty what? Saltatory Conduction
1d. Information travels faster down an axon with ____________________
2d. Where is myelin found and what does it do?
3d. Breaks in the myelin sheath are called: ______________________________
4d. What does saltatory mean? ___________________ Is leaping faster than walking? ______
Diving into the Brain
Go to: http://uwf.edu/jgould/Cortex.jpg
Fill in the table showing what each part does. (Exclude Brain Stem and Midbrain)
Part of Brain
Function of Part
Computer Research II Drugs and Mind
1. Go to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/intro.html
Complete the following activities:
a. Click on the attention tab: Complete the VISUAL and AUDITORY activities
i.
Keep track of how you feel during the activities (frustrated, calm, etc…. )
ii.
Was it easy or hard?
iii. How did you do?
b. Click on the reading tab: Complete the DECODING and MEMORY activities
**Answer the 3 questions in (a)
c. Click on the writing tab: Complete the Graphomotor Activity and the Composition activities
**Answer the 3 questions in (a)
After completing all the activities, write a one page response on how you felt during the activities, how
drugs could possibly cause some of these symptoms, and suggestions you would make to someone
suffering from these disabilities.
2. Next, go to http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html and click on Drug Effects or use the link
from my website.
3. Select 3 drugs to research and answer the following questions for each:
a. How do we obtain the drug? (through food, etc…. )
b. Does the drug have any beneficial qualities?
c. How does it affect our nervous system? (slow it down, speed it up, etc… )
d. List 6 interesting facts you learned about the drug.
You should have the four answers for the 3 different drugs you choose.