Exam 3: Neurons and Synapses

If a single neuron fires rapidly when a person is looking at his cat, we can assume that:

The type of neuron that is typically found in sensory neurons that signal touch and pain is the _________ neuron.

Caffeine prevents adenosine from binding to its receptors, making it a/an ______ drug.

Some of the neurons in your brain are specialized to detect and respond to specific:

What are the benefits of encoding a stimulus with a group of neurons, rather than a single neuron?

There is only one chemical substance that carries information between neurons.

Stimuli used to study visual and auditory neural responses tend to be:

Action potentials leap between nodes of Ranvier in a process called: A)electrical conduction

The action potential originates in the _______, which connects the soma to the axon.

Your brain spends a vast amount of energy:

If a neuron is consistently receiving multiple inputs but not firing, it is likely the inputs are:

One difficulty in studying neural responses is the inability to look at every single neuron at once.

If we assume local coding to be true, and your "older brother" cell died, what would happen?

When a neuron is depolarized, its voltage becomes:

A neuron must receive a specific amount of spikes from other neurons in a short interval in order to ______ the cell.

Glutamate, aspartate, GABA, and glycine are classified as:

Destruction of ____ neurons would eliminate the brain's ability to process signals from the outside environment.

The use of a radioactive substance to visualize neurons is called:

Unlike typical neurotransmitters, retrograde transmitters travel from the _____ to the _____.

Any single neurotransmitter can serve many different functions throughout the body.