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SFN 2023 Blue Spot Trivia
SFN 2023 Blue Spot Trivia
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1
What species does this LC come from?
Ring-tailed lemur
Blue whale
Bald eagle
African elephant
2
How many neurons are there in the rat LC, bilaterally?
10000
4600
8000
3200
3
A study by Robertson et al (2013) was the first to describe non-LC NE innervation of a cortical region in the:
barrel field cortex
insular cortex
infralimbic cortex
primary visual cortex
4
If you try to lesion LC and get a rat that can't urinate, you've lesioned what instead?
Dorsal raphe nucleus
Barrington's nucleus
Mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus
Laterodorsal tegmentum
5
Which authors were first to record from LC neurons in vivo?
Andrade and Aghajanian
Bouret and Sara
Chu and Bloom
Valentino and Foote
6
What species does this LC come from?
River hippopotomus
Domestic horse
Fieldmouse
Crested porcupine
7
What is a difference between cat LC and rat LC?
Cat LC is green in unstained tissue (locus viridis)
Cat LC only releases dopamine
Cat LC does not project to spinal cord
Cat LC has both NE and non-NE cells intermingled within it
8
What species does this LC come from?
Egyptian fruit bat
Snow leopard
Sprague-Dawley rat
Honey badger
9
In that movie, what is the effect of LC stimulation on the subject?
Cognitive enhancement
It re-animates and then explodes
Real time place aversion
Enhanced sensory encoding
10
Which of the following movies features a scene in which LC is electrically stimulated?
Prometheus
Inception
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Silence of the Lambs
11
The LC was first identified in the pons of the human brain by:
Gary Aston-Jones
Johann Christian Reil
Felix Vicq-d'Azyr
Susan Sara
12
Which is the rate-limiting enzyme in norepinephrine biosynthesis?
Dopamine ß hydroxylase
Catechol-O-methyltransferase
DOPA decarboxylase
Tyrosine hydroxylase
13
Which of the following shows the densest innervation and NE release by LC?
Basolateral amygdala
Hippocampus
prefrontal cortex
Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
14
What species does this LC come from?
Platypus
Tree pangolin
Human
The weird alien in Prometheus
15
Who was lead investigator of the research team at St. Elizabeth Hospital that demonstrated LC innervation of cerebellum?
John Morrison
Steve Foote
Annica Dahlstrom
Floyd Bloom
16
Which cell group corresponds to LC?
A7
A2
A6
A5
17
What is the correct spelling of the C word in LC?
Serrooleeyus
Coeruleus
Ceruleus
Caeruleus
18
In what year was LC first described in human brain?
1784
1801
1986
1036
19
Who is credited with the name locus coeruleus?
Pliny the Elder
Leonardo da Vinci
Annica Dahlstrom and Kjell Fuxe
Joseph and Karl Wenzel
20
What TV show features a scene that centers around the LC?
Big Bang Theory
Grey's Anatomy
Blue's Clues
Rick and Morty
21
Why is the LC blue?
Dense arterial blood supply
It's sad :-(
Norepinephrine in crystalline form post mortem is blue
Accumulation of neuromelanin
22
Which is the following is another name for locus coeruleus?
that other catecholamine nucleus that isn't the VTA
substantia aquamarina
nucleus periventricularis pontis
nucleus pigmentosus pontis
23
Which of the following is the immediate precursor molecule to NE in its synthetic pathway?
Phenylephrine
Dopamine
Catecholamine
Epinephrine
24
Which of the following is directly lateral to the rat LC?
Abducens nucleus
Pedunculopontine nucleus
Mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus
Sub-coeruleus
25
What species does this LC come from?
Chimpanzee
Chicken
C elegans
Coyote
26
What species does this LC come from?
Minke whale
Western lowland gorilla
Nile crocodile
Chupacabra
