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Brain Trivia: Movement, Senses, and Diseases

  • Published28 Mar 2022
  • Source BrainFacts/SfN

This Brain Awareness Week webinar originally aired on March 16, 2022.

What type of information from the outside world is processed in the occipital lobe? What type of function does the basal ganglia coordinate? What is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain?

Test your knowledge, and find out the answers in the second Brain Trivia game from BrainFacts.org with moderator Chanel Matney, program officer in the Forum for Neuroscience and Nervous Systems Disorders at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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