Exam 3: Neuroscience and Behavior-Part A

When is the charge inside a neuron at +40 millivolts?

A child touches a hot stove and immediately withdraws his hand due to the activation of:

Which gland(s)specifically regulate(s)stress responses?

Your favorite football team has one play to score a touchdown to either win or lose a game.Your heart races due to the activation of which autonomic nervous system?

Children share a quarter of their genes with their:

In what part of the cerebral cortex is the occipital lobe located?

The hypothalamus does NOT regulate:

Which sequence shows components of neurotransmission in order of most to least abundant in the human brain?

_____ float(s)around the synapse and break(s)down neurotransmitters.

Small electrically charged particles are called:

A(n)_____ is a drug that blocks the action of a neurotransmitter.

Taxi drivers who repeatedly drive in certain areas have highly developed spatial maps in the _____ as a result of brain plasticity.

Why can the thalamus be compared with a network computer server?

An area of the tegmentum rich in dopamine-producing neurons is the:

Its name derived from the Greek word for "tree," the _____ of a neuron is so called because of its appearance,with several branching processes.

Jamming a lock such that the key will no longer open it is essentially what a drug _____ does at the receptor.

Which film analogy BEST describes epigenetics?

The dendritic branching of Purkinje cells resembles the shape of a:

_____ has been shown to boost aspects of memory and motor skills by increasing the number of synapses and even promoting the development of new neurons in the hippocampus.

When a neuron is at rest,there is a high concentration of _____ ions outside the cell relative to the inside.