Exam 29: Neural Control

Neurotransmitters may be removed from the synaptic cleft by ____.

When a neuron is at rest, the voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels in its trigger zone are ____.

At rest, a neuron has a high concentration of ____ inside the cell and a high concentration of ____ outside the cell.

Sodium-potassium pumps move ____ potassium ions into a neuron for every ____ sodium ions that move out of the cell.

Match the region of the vertebrate brain to its function. -This region of the brain regulates thirst and appetite.

The brain and spinal cord are bathed in ____, which also fills the ventricles in the brain.

Which brain imaging technique detects changes in blood flow?

In vertebrate nervous systems, information typically flows from sensory neurons to ____ to ____.

Four of the five organs listed below are innervated by the autonomic subdivision of the vertebrate nervous system. Select the exception.

In a stretch reflex, the synapse between a sensory neuron and a motor neuron occurs ____.

Signals from the parasympathetic nervous system ____.

What is the direction of an impulse within a single neuron?

Four of the five answers listed below are parts of the forebrain. Select the exception.

The limbic system functions in the regulation of ____.

An abrupt reversal in the electric gradient across the neuron plasma membrane is called a(n) ____.

Which brain-related injury has recently been the subject of attention in the professional and youth sporting worlds?

Which drug slows motor responses and produces brief euphoria due to stimulation of endorphin release?

What forms at a junction between two neurons?

Some drugs mimic a neurotransmitter's effect on a postsynaptic cell; for example, morphine and heroin bind to receptors for ____.

The simplest cephalization occurs in ____.