Exam 3: Neuroscience and Behavior-Part A

Vesicles are analogous to:

An informant brings a tip to a police department about suspicious activity at the docks.After detectives meet and process this information,they decide that the best course of action is to send undercover officers to the scene.If the police department were a neural network,the undercover officers would be functioning as:

_____ have highly developed areas in the _____ for finger control.

During saltatory conduction,the electrical charge:

An electrical signal that is conducted along the length of a neuron's axon to a synapse is called a(n)_____ potential.

Lynn suffers from frequent seizures,and doctors suspect that they might be occurring because of unusually high levels of which neurotransmitter?

The electrical charge of a neuron at rest is largely the result of a chemical "pump" that transports _____ from inside to outside the neuron.

The _____ of pyramidal cells are triangular shaped.

One difference in the nervous systems of vertebrates and invertebrates is that:

The tectum and tegmentum are _____ structures.

Which statement regarding bipolar cells is trueTRUE

Gyrus is to sulcus as:

Alzheimer's disease is associated with a deterioration of _____-producing neurons.

The myelin wrapped around an axon serves:

Which function is NOT one that pertains to glial cells?

The major advantage of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)over fMRI is that TMS:

Which subcortical structure functions MOST like a network computer server?

The "bags" of neurotransmitters within an axon ready to be released are called:

The neurons that receive information from the external world and convey information through the spinal cord are called:

The myelin sheath is analogous to which piece of electronic equipment?