Neuroscience Resources for Kids

Brain Jokes

First,let me apologize. I hope you find these jokes funny, but if not, maybeyou could come up with some better ones!! Send them to me at: chudler@u.washington.edu.
In addition to the jokes on this page, a Brain Cartoon Page with cartoons from theNeuroscience for Kids web site is also available.
Click on the "answer button" to see the answer and the to see a page that explains the answer (orgives a hint).

What is a sleeping brain's favorite musical group (rockband)?
What does a brain do when it sees a friend across the street?
Where does a brain go on vacation?
What did the hippocampus say during its retirement speech?
Why did the action potential cross the optic chiasm?
What did the right hemisphere say to the left hemisphere when theycould not agree on anything?
What do you call a group of brains who form a singing group at school?
What happens if you break the brain scanner?
What kind of fish performs brain operations?
Which cranial nerve would be right at home in a well-known city in Nevada?
Where do brains go for vacation in Massachusetts?
What did the Hollywood film director say to the neuron that wanted to bean actor?
What did the stimulus do to the neuron after they got married?
If your dog was a neurologist, what would it do all day?
Why do action potentials make good volleyball players?
If some of Fred Flintstone's neurotransmitters could talk, what wouldthey say?
An action potential takes the train to school. What is the name of thetrain station where it gets off for school?
How did the mother know her child would become a neuroanatomist?
Why should you keep matches away from a neuron?
What is a neuroscientist's favorite type of dog?
What do neurons use to talk to each other?
What happens when you bother the parietal lobe?
What is a brain's favorite kind of boat?
What did the angry brain say to the nociceptor?
Why does the spinal cord belong in the brass section of an orchestra?
What did the brain say after it got an electrical shock?
When does a brain get afraid?
What do you call a flying ear?
What did the doctor say to the man who had an elephant sitting on hisbrain?
What is a EEG technicians favorite time of day?
What street does the hippocampus live on?
What did one eye say to the other eye?
Why didn't the brain want to take a bath?
What did the mother brain say to her oldest child when it was botheringher youngest child?
What does a jellyfish use to catch fish?
What is the brain's favorite television channel?
What is a neuron's favorite television channel?
What did parietal say to frontal?
Why do brain cells grown in a dish attend the ballet and opera?
What is the name of the Hollywood movie that stars an "outlaw" brain andan "outlaw" woman on a road trip?
When does it rain brains?
Why are fish so smart?
What question can you never truthfully answer "Yes"?
Why did the neuron like to sleep in the top bunk bed?
How are eyes and schools similar?
When is a synapse like a tree?
Really Bad

Joke Alert!!
What do you call a cow who is a brain researcher?
(This next joke was sent in by MeraWaters)
Why are the temporal lobes considered the "safari" regions of the brain?

Brain Rhyme Time
The answers to each of the next questions rhyme with the word "brain."For example, for the question, "A brain on the tracks", the answer isBrain Train.

In a storm?	Made a spot?	When it hurts?	Most important?
Most conceited?	Most logical?	Used as a walker?	A Scandinavian?
Used for bread?	Used to pick things up?	Where it lives?	Overworked?
It flys!	It is linked.	A blood vessel.	A fake.
Get more.	A Northeastern one.	Just regular.	It rules.
Western European	When injured.	It's a gas.	On drugs.
It's still here.	Hold back.	When grumbling.

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