Exam 2: Section 2: Neuroscience and Behavior

Paul was awakened by a thumping noise in the middle of the night. Frightened, he jumped out of bed to investigate. Hearing a muffled meow, Paul realized that his cat was shut in the closet and was pushing against the door. Breathing a sigh of relief, Paul let the cat out of the closet and went back to bed. Which subdivision of the nervous system helped calm down and restore Paul's body functioning back to normal?

The notion of structural plasticity:

Research has shown that neurogenesis in adult rats can be enhanced by:

_____ are involved in brain development and the communication of information among neurons.

The cell body of a neuron:

The adrenal glands produce hormones that are involved in:

This image depicts the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. Pick the alternative that correctly labels the structures in the drawing.

Parkinson's disease often involves the degeneration of neurons that produce _____, which are located in a brain area called the _____.

Multiple sclerosis is a disease that involves:

Many brain functions involve the activation of _____ that link different brain regions.

Juliana began taking violin lessons as a young child. As a teenager she participated in a research study in which MRI scans of teenagers who had played the violin for several years were compared to MRI scans of other teenagers who had never played a musical instrument. The MRI scans of the teenage violinists showed that brain regions devoted to control of the fine muscles of the hands and fingers were larger in the teenage musicians than in the nonmusicians. This example illustrates the important phenomenon of:

A German neurologist named _____ identified an area on the left temporal lobe that, when damaged, disrupted the ability to understand written or spoken language.

The phrase white matter in the brain refers to:

Launched in 2009 by the National Institutes of Health, the Human Connectome project aims to:

Stress, exercise, and environmental complexity have been shown to affect the rate of _____ in the brains of monkeys, rodents, and birds.

An agonist is a drug or other chemical that:

The three basic types of neurons are:

Which of the following statements about glial cells is FALSE?

The graph shows the changing electrical charge of a neuron when it activates. Pick the alternative that correctly labels the different phases depicted in the graph.

Which of the following statements is FALSE?