Exam 2: Neuroscience

 Francisco has a disease that is destroying the myelin on his neurons.What effect will this disease most likely have on Francisco? 

 Without glia cells,your brain would ____. 

 Suppose you have a neurological problem that could be fixed by increasing the likelihood that your neurons will fire action potentials.Your doctor may prescribe a drug that has what type of effect? 

 Parkinson's disease is to ____ as schizophrenia is to ____. 

 Excitation causes a postsynaptic cell to ____. 

 The refractory period occurs ____. 

 The chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain is ____,and the chief excitatory neurotransmitter is ____. 

 A person whose cerebellum is damaged would most likely experience problems with ____. 

 Which disease is associated with myelin loss,causing neural impulses to travel around in the brain without reaching to their destinations? 

 The information-carrying cells of the nervous system are called ____. 

 Describe the specialization of function in the four lobes of the brain.

 When information is received only in the right hemisphere of a split-brain patient,the patient is ____. 

 When making a drive to the basket in a basketball game,your ____ nervous system sends signals to your muscles to coordinate your movements. 

 If you are currently taking a drug that affects your behavior,most likely,it is affecting the ____. 

 The potential difference at which a neuron will fire an action potential is called the ____. 

 The nucleus of a neuron is contained in the ____. 

 The two main divisions of the nervous system are the ____ and the ____. 

 The nervous system is to ____ as the endocrine system is to ____. 

 The thalamus is to ____ as the hypothalamus is to ____. 

 When neurotransmitters are being released by a presynaptic neuron into the synapse,it is because ____.