Exam 3: Neuroscience

CT is to PET as ___ is to ___.

What technological advance allows scientists to study brain activity in healthy,awake humans?

What functions does the parasympathetic nervous system control?

Mrs.Kim has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.The area in Mrs.Kim's brain that is most likely damaged is the ___.

Imagine a large city in which a downtown business district is linked to outlying suburbs by a system of subway trains.The spinal cord's sensory neurons may be likened to the system's ___ trains; the spinal cord's motor neurons are analogous to the ___ trains.

What motivated behaviours are regulated by the hypothalamus?

What is the main advantage over using MRI compared to using a CT scan?

Jasper is writing a book all about glial cells.What would be a good title for his book?

Dr.Kensington is a neuropsychologist conducting a case study with a patient who lost the ability to speak after a stroke.What will he be able to learn by studying this patient's brain?

In what way are enzyme degradation and reuptake the same?

Dr.Trantham obtains the following data from a large sample of community dwelling older adults: 1)"mental exercise" scores -- the average time spent on crosswords,brainteasers,and other puzzles each week; 2)physical exercise scores -- the average time spent on aerobic exercise each week; and 3)scores on a measure of overall current cognitive functioning.She then computes two correlation coefficients: one between mental exercise scores and scores on the measure of cognitive functioning,and one between physical exercise scores and cognitive functioning.Based on your text's discussion,which of the following pairs of coefficient is she most likely to find?

Unfortunately,Tanner's oligodendroglial cells are slowly being destroyed due to a progressive disease.What disease do you think Tanner has?

What causes the refractory period of a neuron?

Amy was in a car accident and suffered damage that rendered her medulla non-functional.The doctors now have to tell her family about Amy's condition.What are they likely to say?

Which of the following sequences reflects the order in which nervous and endocrine system structures respond to arousing situations,from first to last?

Neurons in both the substantia nigra and the ___ comprise portions of the brain's dopamine pathways.

Dr.Baker is studying the activity in the brain of a participant when they are in REM sleep and comparing that to the activity when they're fully alert.Given this goal,what is the best technique for Dr.Baker to use?

Autopsies are NOT the ideal way to learn about the brain because it is NOT evident how the brain worked when the person was alive.

The amygdala is to emotion as the hippocampus is to ___.

What chemicals travel from neuron to neuron across synapses?