Multiple Choice
A person with Parkinson's disease experiences severe difficulty in initiating movement due to the depletion of the chemical dopamine in the brain.Injecting dopamine into this person's bloodstream has no effect on the symptoms because
A) the body recognizes that the injected dopamine is artificial.
B) dopamine cannot directly cross the blood-brain barrier into the brain.
C) myelin insulates neurons from foreign substances in the bloodstream.
D) this substance cannot be transported into the brain by the sodium-potassium pump.
Correct Answer:

Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q17: The ease with which a cell membrane
Q37: The equilibrium potential is the membrane voltage
Q44: The primary reason why neurons are refractory
Q46: Which of the following is a catecholamine?<br>A)Gamma-aminobutyric
Q48: Consider the synapse shown schematically here.If neuron
Q51: The Nernst and Goldman equations are used
Q52: You insert a microelectrode into the axon
Q53: The role of calcium ions (Ca²⁺) in
Q53: The building blocks of the ion channels
Q77: The two main classes of cell in