Neuroscience For Kids

Treasure Hunt #6

Treasure -- Treasure -- Treasure

Do I have your attention now? Here is a contest, a game, a challenge.

Your job is to find the answers to 10 questions related to the brain and nervous system. All of the answers can be found right here on the pages of "Neuroscience for Kids." Send me an e-mail (chudler@u.washington.edu) when you have found all of the answers.

It's easy! If you send me the correct answers to all of the questions, you will win the Golden Neuron Award.

"What is the Golden Neuron Award?," you ask? It is NOT fame, fortune and a new car. The Golden Neuron Award is recognition on a SPECIAL PAGE.

Treasure hunt #6 is CLOSED. Please try Treasure hunt #7.

[email] Send your answers to me (Dr. Eric H. Chudler) at chudler@u.washington.edu. Include whatever information about yourself that you want posted on this page (name, grade, school, age). If you don't want your name posted, just say so.

Winners with the correct answers will be listed on the GOLDEN NEURON AWARD PAGE.

[PRIVACY NOTICE]

Treasure Hunt #6 is more difficult than any of the previous hunts. Here are the questions:

Name one function of cerebrospinal fluid.
Name the two divisions of the PERIPHERAL nervous system.
What is the name of the tenth cranial nerve?
Name the three layers of the meninges.
Which two pairs of arteries supply blood to the entire brain?
Of the following six animals, which one sleeps the most in a 24 hour period: python, pig, duck, rabbit, horse, human?
When Albert Einstein died, his brain was removed. What is the name of the doctor who removed Einstein's brain?
A neuroanatomist is a neuroscientist who studies the structure of the nervous system. A neuroradiologist is a neuroscientist who uses brain imaging to study the nervous system. Name two other types of neuroscientists.
What does the abbreviation EEG stand for?
What is the scientific name for "Lou Gehrig's Disease?"

Can you answer these questions? If so, go for the gold...the Golden Neuron Award, that is.

Send your answers to me (Dr. Eric H. Chudler) at chudler@u.washington.edu.