Exam 3: Neuroscience

Dr.Clay is studying the function of the fusiform face area,and comparing activation when participants view faces that they know versus faces of strangers.Given the choices of techniques below,what is the best one for Dr.Clay to use?

Which of the following is NOT a structure of the hindbrain?

Which gland is attached to the hypothalamus?

Elodie is sitting on a subway and imagines the train is a neuron undergoing an action potential.In her analogy,the people are ions,and as the doors open,the people rush onto the train,and this causes the train to move (or neuron to fire).What type of ion would the people represent?

Since both hemispheres receive the same input from the environment,this means that split-brain patients

At the broadest level,the nervous system is divided into the ___ and the ___ nervous systems.

After a head trauma,Leon is unable to see,despite there being nothing wrong with his eyes.Leon has sustained damage to his ___ lobe.

Depolarization is to ___ as hyperpolarization is to ___.

Dr.Chalmers is learning about the brain by studying a patient of his who has suffered damage to the hippocampus.What is a drawback of using this technique to learn about brain function?

What happens if the myelin sheath is damaged?

What portion of the thalamus is used to relay auditory information?

Which of the following best describes the relationship between enzymatic degradation and reuptake?

Zara recently got botulism from eating poisonous mushrooms.Which of the following neurotransmitters would have been affected?

Women are less intelligent than men because their brains are smaller.

Darnell underwent surgery to control his severe epilepsy.Now,however,Darnell CANNOT form new memories of his experiences,although he does remember events in the past.Most likely,the surgery destroyed a portion of the ___ in Darnell's brain.

What do you expect would be one thing that would happen to someone who was born without a spinal cord reflex?

Following surgery to alleviate her epilepsy,Aino can read words presented to the right visual field,but CANNOT name objects presented to the left visual field.What type of surgery did Aino undergo,and what did it involve?

A synapse is a

If the resting potential of a neuron were simply the result of electrostatic pressure and diffusion,what would it be?

Dr.Deyz wants to investigate what happens to visual imagery in humans if the visual cortex is destroyed.Obviously.Dr.Deyz can't even propose a study like this to the ethics committee.What is the next best thing that Dr.Deyz could do to accomplish his goal?