Exam 2: Functional Neuroanatomy and the Evolution of the Nervous System

 Your morning alarm includes a gradual increase in room lighting to help you awaken. This increase in ambient light triggers the _____ in your brain to constrict your pupils in response to the increase in light.

 Which of the following structures is in the brainstem?

 Which of the following structures is found in humans but not in other animals?

 The degree of cortical convolution in the brain predicts a species'

 A friend calls and says his child is complaining of a severe headache. When the child bends her head forward she screams in pain. The parent asks you what to do. Given what you have read in this chapter, what would you suggest?

The structure indicated by "4" in this illustration

 The cochlear and vestibular nuclei are located in the

 Which part of the brain is also referred to as "the fifth lobe?"

 Which of the meninges is described as a leatherlike tissue that follows the contours of the skull bones?

 Brain development among hominid species

 The dorsal portion of the midbrain is also known as the

 Axons carrying sensory information to the brain may be found in

 A pathway considered important to our experience of reward and pleasure originates in the ventral tegmentum. Where would we look to find this area?

 The blood supply to the brain is provided by the

 The correct order of the spinal divisions from rostral to caudal is

 The ventral striatum is another name for the

 The ____ lobe is primarily involved with visual processing.

 Researchers investigating appetite distinguish between the roles played by the ventromedial hypothalamus and the lateral hypothalamus. Where are these two structures located relative to one another?

 Which of the following is a consequence of sympathetic nervous system activity?

 Compared with early examples of Homo erectus, modern humans have