What is synaptic Transmission?

Neurotransmitters connect (“bind”) to receptors, Synaptic vesicles to dump contents into gap (synapse) between neurons, Contents are chemicals called Neurotransmitters

What does the corpus callosum do?

Relays information between the two hemispheres

Which one of these regarding ERP is wrong?

It’s worse in temporal resolution

In the attached grraph, the rising phase of the action potential is caused by __ and the falling phase caused by __.

Na+ running into the cell, K+ rushing out of the cell

The hindbrain is the lower east structure in the brain, includes:

Both the medulla and the cerebellum

What is contralateralization?

The left side of the brain gets input from the right, The right side of the brain gets input from the left side of body

Transcranial Magenetic Stimulation

The two steps of an action potential is:

K+ comes out of the cell, Na+ goes rushing into the cell

When we cut the coropus callosum in half separating hemispheres

Measures the systematic fluctuations in voltage over time

Which two are the graded potential of an action potential?

Deplorization, Hyperpolarization

Method that measure the diffusion of water molecules to map the tracts

What does the cerebellum do?

Coordinates fine muscle movement, Balance

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1
What are structural brain imaging?
DTI
CT
FMRI
MRI
2
An axon does not integrate and output information
True
False
3
What part of a neuron is B?
Dendrites (input)
Soma (Cell Body)
Myelin Sheath
Axon (output)
4
What part of the brain is the blue portion?
Partial
Temporal
Frontal
Occipital
5
What is the threshold of an Action Potential is exceeded it spikes?
-100
-50
-30
-70
6
In an action potential NA+ goes into a cell
True
False
7
What letter represents The Somatosensory Cortex?
D
C
J
B
8
It is possible to record an action potential from individual neurons in an awake normal behaving animal
True
False
9
What letter represents visual cortex?
A
B
E
D
10
What is the forebrain?
The biggest part of brain that contains the cerebral cortex
None
Is what makes us distinctly human
All of these
11
What part of a neuron is f
Axon (output)
Axon Hillock
Axon Terminal
Synapse
12
What is synaptic Transmission?
Neurotransmitters connect (“bind”) to receptors
Synaptic vesicles to dump contents into gap (synapse) between neurons
None of these
Contents are chemicals called Neurotransmitters
13
A soma is the biggest part of the cell
True
False
14
There are three major divisions of the brain
None of these
Forebrain, Cerebellum, Cerebral Cortex
Central Executive, VSSP, ALPL
Hindbrain, Midbrain, Forebrain
15
There are two steps in an action potential
False
True
16
What does the corpus callosum do?
Relays sensory information
Controls thinking, sensing function, and voluntary movement
Coordinates fine muscle movement, Balance
Relays information between the two hemispheres
17
Overview of neural communication sequence is electrical-chemical-electrical etc.
False
True
18
Which one of these regarding ERP is wrong?
It indicates the exact time a process occurs
It’s worse in temporal resolution
the anatomical origins are usually unknown
It has poor spatial resolution
19
What part of the brain is the yellow portion?
Partial
Frontal
Temporal
Occipital
20
What letter represents The Motor Cortex?
A
B
J
D
21
Excitatory transmitters causes:
Hyperpolarization
Depolarization
Nothing
Chaos
22
In animals lesions can be caused by:
All of the above
Chemical Lesions (do not damage fibers of passage)
Electrolytic Lesions (problem: fibers of passage)
Reversible Lesions (inhibitory Transmitter, cooling)
None
Aspiration lesions
23
Which two components allow neural communication?
Electrical and Chemical
Imaginative and Chemical
Chemical and Physical
Electric and Dreamers
24
What is resting potential of an Action Potential?
-20
-70
-100
-50
25
In the attached grraph, the rising phase of the action potential is caused by __ and the falling phase caused by __.
K+ running into cell, Na+ running out of cell
Cl- running into the cell, K+ running out of cell
Na+ running into the cell, K+ rushing out of the cell
None
26
The hindbrain is the lower east structure in the brain, includes:
None of these
Both the medulla and the cerebellum
Medulla which controls primary behavior like breathing
The cerebellum who’s name means little brain: Fine motor skills
27
DTI means = Difussion Tensor Imagine
False
True
28
What part of a neuron is D
Myelin Sheath
Dendrites (input)
Soma (Cell Body)
Axon (output)
29
Functional Brain imagines is done while the brain is active and uses more energy; thus creating increased blood flow
False
True
30
What is this hat?
ERP
FMRI
EEG: Electroencephalogram
MRI
31
What is contralateralization?
The left side of the brain gets input from the right
The right side of the brain gets input from the left side of body
It’s none of these
It’s one side
32
What is TMS?
Tetramethylsilane
Telephone Management System
Transcontinental Management Services
Transcranial Magenetic Stimulation
33
FFA affects the inferotemporal cortex, that contains neurons that are specialized to respond to faces
False
True
34
What does Fugu do to a person?
Block Na+ ion channels
All of these
Prevents neurons from firing action potential
Suffocates a person
35
What is in the midbrain?
Corpus Callosum, Amygala, Thalamus, Hypothalamus, Hippocampus
Think bird
All of these
None of these
36
The two steps of an action potential is:
K+ comes out of the cell
Na+ goes out of the cell
Na+ goes rushing into the cell
K+goes into the cell
37
Myelination starts around birth and ends at 20
False
True
38
What is Split Brain?
Severing the Right hemisphere
Severing the Left Hemisphere
When we cut the coropus callosum in half separating hemispheres
Taking a piece of the brain out
39
What is an MRI used for?
It causes radio waves to disturb the water alignment
It measures the relation time between density of water in tissue
All of these
Detect water density in parts of the brain to provide detailed 3/d model
40
What is FFA?
FFA Agriculture club
Fusiform face area
41
What letter represents Auditory cortex?
K
H
A
B
42
What are the electrical communication Team roster that michi told us to remember?
Negatively charged proteins (A-)
Sodium (Na+)
Chloride (Cl-)
Potassium (K+)
43
What does an EEG do?
Measures the systematic fluctuations in voltage over time
Measure unconscious behavior
Measures Action Potentials
Measures how well ones sense of touch hits the brain
44
Prosopagnosia is the difficulty in recognizing faces
True
False
45
Which two are the graded potential of an action potential?
Deplorization
Hyperpolarization
Causation
Potential
46
What is DTI?
Method that glows like radiation
All of the above
Method that observes water and how it sits in brain
Method that measure the diffusion of water molecules to map the tracts
47
When neurotransmitters are inhibited the neuron becomes more negative, and decreased the action potential
True
False
48
Inhibitory transmitters causes:
Depolarization
Chaos
Hyperpolarization
Nothing
49
What does the cerebellum do?
Relays information between the two hemispheres
Controls thinking, sensing function, and voluntary movement
Coordinates fine muscle movement, Balance
Relays sensory information
50
PET and FMRI have good spatial resolution, but poor temporal resolution (indicate with part, but can’t be precise)
True
False
51
What part of a neuron is C through F
Node of Ranvier
Axon Hillock
Axon
Synapse
52
The connection between a presynaptic neuron and a post synaptic neuron connects at which point?
Synapse
Axon
Dendrite
Soma
53
Dendrites are the collectors of information
False
True
54
What part of the brain is the orange portion?
Frontal
Occipital
Temporal
Partial
55
What part of a neuron is e
Synapse
Node of Ranvier
Axon
Axon Hillock
56
In an action potential K+ comes out of the cell
True
False
57
This is the somatosensory humunculous
True
False
58
What part of the brain is the purple portion?
Frontal
Occipital
Temporal
Partial
59
What is an ERP?
Consistent patterns trigggered by stimuli
No patterns triggered by Stimuli
Too many patterns triggered by stimuli
Inconsistent patterns triggered by stimuli
60
When neurotransmitters are excitatory the neuron becomes more +, action potential likely
False
True
61
The spinal cord relays nerve impulses between brain and body, controls simple reflexes
True
False
62
IN DTI water molecules do what?
They glow like hotcakes
Nothing
They “change” or move. AKA DIffusion
They stay the same
63
What is ipsilateral?
Same side
None of these
Chaos
Differing Sides connect to different bodies
64
What are some naturally occurring lesions in brain?
None of these
All of these
Tumors or surgical removal of them
Alzheimer’s disease, Korsakoff’s syndrome
Open and closed injuries
Stroke, Hemmorrhage, aneurism, anoxia etc
65
Electrical Communication of neurons is the action potential of a neuron
False
True
66
An action potential is all or nothing principle
True
False
67
Remember the Monkey Brain and it’s decided into sub divisions on the basis of physiology
False
True
68
Chemical communication of a neuron is the release of Neurotransmitters
False
True
69
Do lesions in humans tend to be large and not located in the “right spot?
True
False
70
What does the cerebral cortex do?
Relays sensory information
Coordinates fine muscle movement, Balance
Relays information between the two hemispheres
Controls thinking, sensing function, and voluntary movement
71
What does the Thalamus do?
Controls thinking, sensing function, and voluntary movement
Relays information between the two hemispheres
Relays sensory information
Coordinates fine muscle movement, Balance
72
TMS: Uses external magnetic field to produce non-invasive stimulation (fairly widespread effects)
True
False
73
Why do we do DTI?
To see if there any issues with the pathways of the brain
To verify there is no stroke or hemorrhage
To see how nerves reconnect in the brain when it’s gone
To determine if the patient has lewe body dementia
74
What part of a neuron is A
Soma (Cell Body)
Axon (output)
Dendrites (input)
Myelin Sheath
75
What is a PET scan?
It’s called Position Emission Tomography
All of these
This radiation was infected until the blood stream
It measures the increase of blood flow by radioactive water
76
Which of the following methodologies does not measure brain activity or structure?
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Positron emission tomography (PET)
Computerized Axial Tomography (CT)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
77
What part of a neuron is C
Synapse
Axon
Axon Terminal
Axon Hillock

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