10 questions on how much you know about the teenage brain
(Answers at the end)...

Question 1 - How many brains cells are there in the average teenage brain?

a) 10 billion
b) 50 billion
c) 100 billion
d) 500 billion

Question 2 - Which of the following are true statements about the differences between the brains of boys and girls? (choose more than one answer)

a) boys brains are heavier
b) the corpus callosum of girls is 25% bigger by adolescence
c) girls hear 7 times better than boys
d) The hippocampus  in girls is larger
e) girls have a higher IQ

Question 3

 In an experiment, adults were shown a face and asked to identify the emotion it showed. The adults identified surprise. When teens were asked to do the same thing, what emotion did they see?

a) Anger/Hostility
b) Shock
c) Terror
d) Surprise

Question 4 - What is the sole source of energy for the teenage brain?

a) Protein
b) Glucose
c) Water
d) Insulin

Question 5 - How much electricity does the average brain generate?

a) 5 watts
b) 10 watts
c) 25 watts
d) 50 watts

Question 6 - The human brain has 1 quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) connections. What percentage of these connections are wired up at birth?

a) 10%
b) 17%
c) 27%
d) 37%
e) 47%

Question 7 - When the brains of dead London taxi drivers were examined which part of their brain was found to be enlarghed?

a) Cerebellum
b) Corpus Callosum
c) Hippocampus
d) Amygdala
e) Ventral striatum

Question 8 - Which drug, when consumed in the first 3 years of high school, can permanently damage the parts of the brain associated with memory and learning?

a) Cannabis
b) Ice
c) Alcohol
d) MDMA

Question 9 - MRI scans of the brains of autistic students differ from non autistic students in what way? (Choose more than 1 correct answer)
 
a) enlarged frontal lobes
b) Smaller corpus callosum
c) Enlarged hippocampus
d) Enlarged amygdala

Question 10 -  At what age does the human female brain cease developing?

a) 15
b) 16
c) 18
d) early twenties

Answers: 1) c 2) abcd 3) a 4) b 5) c 6) b 7) c 8) c 9) abcd 10) d