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Funny Neuroscience Team Names

Five neuroscience team names a press: neuron puns, brain regions, lab names, brain quiz teams and class groups.

Funny Neuroscience Team Names

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  1. Out on a DendriteDendrites are the branches of a neuron that receive signals from other cells.
  2. Wrinkly Brains
  3. Sulcus in the GrooveA sulcus is a groove in the cerebral cortex.
  4. Lobe and Behold
  5. Gyri With FriesA gyrus is a ridge on the cerebral cortex; the plural is gyri.

All 122 names

Neuron and synapse puns 25

  • Absolutely Refractory In the absolute refractory period a new action potential cannot be set off.
  • All or None Attitude The all-or-none law: a nerve fiber gives its full response to a stimulus or none at all.
  • At Resting Potential Resting potential is the voltage across the membrane of a cell that is not firing.
  • Axon to Grind An axon is the long fiber that carries a neuron's signals away from the cell body.
  • Depolarizing Personalities Depolarization makes the inside of a cell less negative compared with the outside.
  • Excitatory Bunch An excitatory synapse makes the next cell more likely to fire.
  • Fire Together, Wire Together A common summary of the theory that a synapse grows stronger when one cell keeps firing the next.
  • Ginger Synapses
  • Glia Club Glia are the cells of the nervous system that are not neurons; they support and protect them.
  • Graded Potentials Graded potentials are voltage changes that vary with the size of the stimulus, unlike all-or-none spikes.
  • King of the Axon Hillock The axon hillock is the part of a neuron's cell body that connects to the axon.
  • Mirror Neuron Mimes A mirror neuron fires both when an animal acts and when it watches the same act.
  • Myelin Our Own Business Myelin is the fatty material that insulates an axon and speeds up its signals.
  • Oh Synapse A synapse is the structure where a neuron passes a signal to another cell.
  • Out on a Dendrite Dendrites are the branches of a neuron that receive signals from other cells.
  • Pyramidal Scheme Pyramidal cells are neurons named for the cone shape of their cell body.
  • Saltatory Conductors In saltatory conduction a signal leaps along a myelinated axon from one gap in the myelin to the next.
  • Slightly Inhibited An inhibitory signal makes the next neuron less likely to fire.
  • Sodium In, Potassium Out In an action potential sodium ions flow into the cell, then potassium ions flow out.
  • Spike Train Spotters A spike train is the sequence of action potentials a neuron fires.
  • Star Struck Astrocytes Astrocytes are star-shaped glial cells of the brain and spinal cord.
  • Use It or Prune It Synaptic pruning is the elimination or weakening of synapses.
  • Very Sympathetic Nervous System The sympathetic nervous system sets off the body's fight-or-flight response.
  • Vesicle Release Party Synaptic vesicles store neurotransmitters and release them at the synapse.
  • Voltage Gated Community Voltage-gated ion channels open and close as the voltage across the cell membrane changes.

Brain region puns 27

  • Amygdala Almonds The amygdala takes its name from the Greek word for almond, after its shape.
  • Basal Ganglia Gang The basal ganglia are a group of nuclei at the base of the forebrain, tied to voluntary movement.
  • Caudate in the Act The caudate nucleus is one of the structures of the basal ganglia.
  • Cingulate and Ready to Mingle The cingulate cortex lies on the inner side of each hemisphere, just above the corpus callosum.
  • Corpus Callosum Bridge Club The corpus callosum is the wide band of nerve fibers that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.
  • Cortical Columnists A cortical column is a group of neurons that forms a cylinder through the cerebral cortex.
  • Gyri With Fries A gyrus is a ridge on the cerebral cortex; the plural is gyri.
  • Hip Hip Hippocampus The hippocampus, named after the sea horse, helps turn short-term memory into long-term memory.
  • Hypothalamus Thermostats The hypothalamus controls body temperature, hunger and thirst.
  • Insular Community The insular cortex is folded deep inside the lateral sulcus of each hemisphere.
  • Labor of Lobe
  • Limbic System Limbo The limbic system is a set of brain structures involved in emotion and motivation.
  • Lobe and Behold
  • Midbrain Crisis The midbrain is the uppermost part of the brainstem.
  • Occipital Illusions The occipital lobe is the visual processing center of the brain.
  • Olfactory Settings The olfactory bulb is the structure of the forebrain that handles the sense of smell.
  • Only Temporal The temporal lobe holds the primary auditory cortex, which takes in information from the ears.
  • Parietal Guidance The parietal lobe brings together sensory information, the sense of touch included.
  • Pons and Needles The pons is the part of the brainstem between the midbrain and the medulla.
  • Prefrontal Executives The prefrontal cortex is linked to executive functions such as planning and decision making.
  • Putamen In, Coach The putamen is a rounded nucleus of the basal ganglia, at the base of the forebrain.
  • Reticular Formation Dance Team The reticular formation is a set of interconnected nuclei in the brainstem.
  • Sulcus in the Groove A sulcus is a groove in the cerebral cortex.
  • Superior Colliculus, Inferior Jokes The superior colliculi sit on the roof of the midbrain, just above the inferior colliculi.
  • Tectum Support The tectum, Latin for roof, is the dorsal part of the midbrain.
  • Thalamus Relay Station The thalamus relays sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex.
  • Vortex of Cortex The cerebral cortex is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum.

Lab and journal club names 24

  • BOLD Signal Seekers BOLD, blood-oxygenation-level-dependent imaging, is a method used in functional MRI.
  • Calcium Imagination Calcium imaging is a microscope technique that measures the calcium in cells or tissue.
  • Connectome and Get It A connectome is a comprehensive map of the neural connections in a brain.
  • Default Mode Networkers The default mode network is active when a person is at wakeful rest, as in daydreaming.
  • EEG Whiz EEG records the electrical activity of the brain, usually through electrodes on the scalp.
  • Ephys Ed Class Electrophysiology studies the electrical properties of cells and tissues.
  • Figure Legends of the Cortex
  • Gamma Oscillators A gamma wave is a pattern of neural oscillation, between 30 and 100 hertz in humans.
  • Gigaseal Team A gigaseal is the tight seal between the pipette and the cell membrane in a patch clamp recording.
  • Grid Cell Service A grid cell is a neuron that fires at regular intervals as an animal moves through an open area.
  • Open Access Axons
  • Optogenetic Spotlight Optogenetics uses light to control the activity of neurons.
  • Patch Clamp Champs The patch clamp technique records the ionic currents of single cells or patches of membrane.
  • Place Cell Placeholders A place cell is a neuron of the hippocampus that becomes active when an animal enters one particular place.
  • Principal Investigating Neurons
  • Radial Arm Maze Racers The radial arm maze was designed to measure spatial learning and memory in rats.
  • Single Unit Recordings A single-unit recording measures the electrical responses of one neuron with a microelectrode.
  • Spike Sorters Spike sorting uses the shape of recorded waveforms to tell the activity of neurons from background noise.
  • Spike Timing Dependents Spike-timing-dependent plasticity adjusts the strength of a synapse by the timing of the spikes on either side.
  • Stereotaxic Coordinators Stereotactic surgery uses a three-dimensional coordinate system to find a small target.
  • Third Author Astrocytes
  • Tract Tracers Anterograde tracing follows an axon from the cell body to the synapse where it ends.
  • Tuning Curve Balls A neuron with a bell-shaped tuning curve responds most strongly to a stimulus near the curve's mean.
  • Voxel Populi A voxel is a value on a three-dimensional grid, as a pixel is on a flat one.

Brain puns for quiz teams 22

  • A Few Neurons Short
  • Brain Buffering
  • Brain Food Fight
  • Brain Glitch
  • Brainchildren
  • Brainpower Outage
  • Brains of the Outfit
  • Brains on Loan
  • Brainstem to Stern
  • Brainwaves and Means
  • Brainy Day Fund
  • Cereal Cortex Crunch
  • Cortex of the Matter
  • Know Your Neurons
  • Last Two Brain Cells
  • Left Brains, Right Answers
  • Noggin Joggers
  • Scatterbrains United
  • Thick Skulls, Quick Brains
  • Trivia on the Brain
  • Whole Brain Effort
  • Wrinkly Brains

Class project groups 24

  • All Neurons on Deck
  • Axon Your Marks
  • Blind Spot Finders The blind spot is where the optic nerve passes through the retina, which has no light-detecting cells there.
  • Candy Neuron Architects
  • Clay Cortex Crew
  • Cortex Cohort
  • Flashcard Hippocampi
  • Four Lobes, Four of Us The four major lobes of the cerebral cortex are the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital.
  • Freshman Forebrains The forebrain is the forward-most portion of the brain.
  • Hindbrain Hindsight The hindbrain includes the medulla, the pons and the cerebellum.
  • Intro to Neuro Crew
  • Label the Lobes
  • Lobes of Fun
  • Motor Unit Recruits A motor unit is a motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it controls.
  • Myelinated and Motivated
  • Neurons in Training
  • Neuroscience Minors, Major Effort
  • Nucleus of the Class In neuroanatomy a nucleus is a cluster of neurons in the central nervous system.
  • Passed the Threshold The threshold potential is the level a membrane potential must reach to start an action potential.
  • Postsynaptic Party At a chemical synapse the postsynaptic cell is the one that receives the signal.
  • Presynaptic Procrastinators At a chemical synapse the presynaptic cell is the one that sends the signal.
  • Supporting Cells
  • Twelve Nerves, One Mnemonic There are conventionally twelve pairs of cranial nerves, numbered I to XII.
  • Unconditioned Reflexes An unconditioned response is an innate reflex, such as salivating at the taste of food.

How it works

122 funny neuroscience team names, from Glia Club to Pons and Needles. 80 of them print the term behind the pun under the name: what an axon carries, where the pons sits, what a voxel is.

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Brain team names for quiz night

Brain puns for quiz teams has 22 names that need no textbook: Scatterbrains United, Brainy Day Fund, Brainstem to Stern, Last Two Brain Cells and Trivia on the Brain. Brain region puns has 27 more, such as Occipital Illusions, Parietal Guidance and Hip Hip Hippocampus.

Neuroscience group names for class or lab

Class project groups has 24, among them Label the Lobes, Passed the Threshold, Axon Your Marks and Nucleus of the Class. Lab and journal club names has 24 for people who record for a living: Patch Clamp Champs, Voxel Populi, EEG Whiz and Spike Sorters.

Questions and answers

What are funny neuro team names?

Glia Club, Oh Synapse, Pyramidal Scheme, At Resting Potential, Saltatory Conductors and Excitatory Bunch are in Neuron and synapse puns, which has 25.

What are good neuroscience team names for a lab?

Ephys Ed Class, Connectome and Get It, Tuning Curve Balls, Grid Cell Service and Default Mode Networkers. All five are in Lab and journal club names, a set built on recording, imaging and tracing methods.

What are team names related to brains?

Midbrain Crisis, Lobe and Behold, Gyri With Fries, Tectum Support and Basal Ganglia Gang each play on a part of the brain. Brain puns for quiz teams plays on the word brain itself, as in Brains on Loan and Whole Brain Effort.

What are fun brain group names for a class project?

Lobes of Fun, Cortex Cohort, Clay Cortex Crew, Neurons in Training and Supporting Cells. Names for a psychology class are on creative psychology group names.

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