Question: Homeostasis is Greek for what phrase?
Answer: "standing still"

Question: The milieu interieur term was used by what physiologist?
Answer: Claude Bernard

Question: Homeostasis is like what household tool?
Answer: a thermostat.

Question: The hypothalamus is located at the base of what?
Answer: the forebrain

Question: In vertebrates, the most important part of the brain is what?
Answer: the hypothalamus,

Question: A collection of small nuclei at the base of the forebrain is called what?
Answer: the hypothalamus,

Question: The gland directly underneath the hypothalamus is which gland?
Answer: the pituitary gland

Question: The pituitary gland sends hormones through what in the body?
Answer: the bloodstream

Question: A set of interconnected areas at the base of the forebrain is called what?
Answer: basal ganglia

Question: The basal ganglia is thought to be the central location at which what are made?
Answer: decisions

Question: Which neurotransmitter plays a large role in drug abuse?
Answer: dopamine

Question: Which of the two systems, reward or punishment is better understood?
Answer: The reward mechanism

Question: In what year did Tim Bliss and Terje Lomo publish a paper about long-term potentiation?
Answer: 1971

Question: BDNF is an abbreviation for what term?
Answer: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor

Question: Learning and memory expressed as changes in the synaptic connections was first theorized by whom?
Answer: Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Question: What field of science studies the brain and the central nervous system?
Answer: neuroscience

Question: What scientific field tries to understand the mind and behavior?
Answer: Psychology

Question: What field of science strives to diagnose and treat diseases of the nervous system?
Answer: neurology

Question: Psychiatry is the branch of science that does what?
Answer: study, prevent, and treat mental disorders

Question: Cognitive science seeks to join what two branches of science with other fields?
Answer: neuroscience and psychology

Question: The oldest known method of studying the brain is what?
Answer: anatomical,

Question: What do neuroanatomists study?
Answer: the large-scale structure of the brain

Question: What type of study uses medical imaging techniques to correlate changes in brain structure?
Answer: neuroanatomy

Question: Until what century was brain studying mostly anatomical?
Answer: the middle of the 20th century,

Question: What do neurophysiologists study?
Answer: the chemical, pharmacological, and electrical properties of the brain

Question: The most common tools that neurophysiologists use are what?
Answer: drugs and recording devices

Question: What type of receptors does the brain lack?
Answer: pain receptors

Question: Electrodes are often glued to what like in EEG studies?
Answer: the scalp

Question: The brain is surrounded by what type of fluid?
Answer: cerebrospinal fluid

Question: The brain is separated from the bloodstream by what feature?
Answer: the blood–brain barrier

Question: The two main structures that protect the brain are what?
Answer: the skull and meninges

Question: What type of disease if often studied to understand damage to the brain?
Answer: strokes

Question: What type of animal is most commonly used to study brain damage?
Answer: rats

Question: Computational neuroscience is concerned with what two studies?
Answer: the use of computers to study the brain; second, the study of how brains perform computation.

Question: What is the most common test subjects for studying of the brain?
Answer: mice

Question: Where was the oldest brain that was found?
Answer: Armenia

Question: How old was the oldest brain discovered thought to be?
Answer: over 5,000 years old

Question: The oldest known brain discovered was found in how old of a person?
Answer: 12 to 14-year-old

Question: The oldest brain found in a cave was from what gender of human?
Answer: girl

Question: The seal of the soul was debated to lie in what two organs of the body?
Answer: brain or heart.

Question: Aristotle thought the soul lied in what organ?
Answer: the heart

Question: Who invented the atomic theory of matter?
Answer: Democritus,

Question: The "father of medicine" is a name given to whom in history?
Answer: Hippocrates

Question: What philosopher in history argued for a three-part soul?
Answer: Democritus

Question: The physician Galen was from which country in history?
Answer: Roman

Question: What period in history was anatomical  studies of nerves greatly increased?
Answer: the Renaissance

Question: Who coined the term pneumata psychikon?
Answer: The Roman physician Galen

Question: Penumata psychikon is usually translated as what?
Answer: animal spirits

Question: Who found out that a shock of electricity to an exposed nerve of a dead frog caused contractions?
Answer: Luigi Galvani

Question: The tool that was invented to stain only a small fractions of neurons was called what?
Answer: the Golgi stain

Question: What nationality was santiago Ramon y Cajal?
Answer: Spanish

Question: Work in the first half the 20th century in electrical properties of nerve cells were by what two main scientists?
Answer: Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley

Question: Which decade in history was officially called the "Decade of the Brain"?
Answer: the 1990s

Question: Multielectrode recording allows what?
Answer: the activity of many brain cells to be recorded all at the same time;

Question: Genetic engineering allows what?
Answer: molecular components of the brain to be altered experimentally;

Question: What does genomics allow the study of?
Answer: variations in brain structure to be correlated with variations in DNA properties and neuroimaging.

Question: During what century was multielectrode recording invented?
Answer: the 21st century,

Question: Genetic engineering was first discovered in what century?
Answer: the 21st century,

Question: What is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia?
Answer: Near East (French: Proche-Orient)

Question: The term near east was originally applies to the maximum extent of what empire?
Answer: Ottoman Empire

Question: The term Near East has fallen into disuses in what language?
Answer: English

Question: What has replaced the term Near East?
Answer: Middle East

Question: Who defines the Near East as including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt. Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Isreal, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the West Bank, and Yemen?
Answer: The Encyclopædia Britannica

Question: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations also includes what Country in the definition of Near East?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What group believes the terms Near East and Middle East denote the same territories?
Answer: the National Geographic Society

Question: What empire included all of the Balkan Peninsula north to the southern edge of the Hungarian Plain at the beginning of the 19th century?
Answer: the Ottoman Empire

Question: When did the Ottoman Empire lose all of it's empire except Constantinople and Eastern Thrace?
Answer: 1914

Question: The rise of what saw the independence of Greece, Serbia, the Danubian Principalities and Bulgaria?
Answer: the rise of Balkan nationalism

Question: Until what year did the Ottomans retain a band of territory including Albania, Macedonia and Thrace?
Answer: 1912

Question: When did the Ottomans lose the territory of Albania, Macedonia and Thrace?
Answer: the two Balkan Wars of 1912–13

Question: How was the Ottoman Empire portrayed in the press?
Answer: as the sick man of Europe

Question: The Balkan states were primarily what religion? 
Answer: Christian

Question: When did the Ottomans strike at the Armenians?
Answer: 1894

Question: What are the grounds on which the Ottomans struck at the Armenians?
Answer: the explicit grounds that they were a non-Muslim people