Question: Brain’s functions

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Question: Neuroscience

Answer: the study of how the nervous system develops and how its structures and functions affect behavior

Question: What should teachers learn about the brain?

Answer: To develop evidence-based practices, teachers must evaluate research findings from psychological literature to determine what works and what does not, but they must also evaluate claims about the brain and education.

Question: How can neuroscience inform best practices in education?

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Question: Areas of neuroscience research relevant to education:

Answer: executive functioning, reading, and mathematics

Question: Dendrites

Answer: receive impulses from other neurons and carry the information to the cell body

Question: Axon

Answer: carries electrical impulses away from the cell body and toward other neurons through branches at the end called axon terminals

Question: Myelin sheath

Answer: the fatty layer that protects and insulates neurons; speeds up electrical transmission along axons and makes transmitting of nerve impulses quicker and more efficient

Question: Synapses

Answer: small spaces between dendrites and axon terminals through with electrical impulses are passed

Question: What happens when electrical messages move down the axon?

Answer: They cause the release of neurotransmitters into the synapse where the dendrites of the nearby cell receive the signal and transmit it to its cell body.