MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

The sympathetic Nervous system is most associated with what?

Chemicals that produce similar effects to those produced by opiates are called?

After our flight or flight arouses our physiology to meet an external threat, which system returns us to homeostasis.

The show down of neural communication in multiple sclerosis involves a degeneration of the

Molecules that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on s dendrite and block that neurotransmitters effects are called what?

motor neurons are to the _____ nervous system as interneurons are to the ____ nervous system?

With respect to the neuron, a receiver is to a transmitter as _____ is to _____

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that travel across the...

Information is relayed from the body to the spinal cord or the brain by__

The brain scans of people with anterograde amnesia, the inability to make new long term memories are most likely to show damage to the?

SOmeone who has difficulty speaking after a stroke is most likely suffering from damage to which of the following areas??

Which neurotransmitter has been linked to parkinson's disease and schizophrenia?

The rest of time shortly after a neuron fires is referred to as?

Joseph Capgras described a patient who reported that imposters had replaced her husband, children and herself. Her inability to recognize the faces of her close family members or herself suggests that the...

Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people ability to ...

A picture of a cat is briefly flashed in the left visual field and a picture of a mouse is briefly flashed in the right visual field of a split brain patient. The individual will be able to use her??

Information is most quickly transmitted from one cerebral hemisphere to the other by the?

For the past three months, monroe has been extremely thirsty, freezing and sweating at the same time and extremely hungry. Which part of the brain is responsible for this?

Which brain scan measures the amount of glucose in various ares of the brain, allowing researchers to generate a picture of the brains activity levels

after terry lost a dinger in an industrial accident, the areas of his sensory cortex devoted to receiving input from that finger gradually became very responsive to sensory input from his adjacent fingers. This best illustrates...

The cortical regions that are not directly involved in sensory or motor functions are known as

Our lips are more sensitive than our knees to sensations of touch due to what?

TO identify which specific brain areas are most active during a particular mental task , researchers would be most likely to make use of an ??

The brain structure that provides a major link between the nervous system and the endocrine system is the ??

to demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulate the rats??

To identify which specific brain areas are most active during a particular mental task, researchers would be most likely to make us of an???

Once a neuron reaches threshold, regardless of having a strong or weak stimulus it will always fire at the same intensity. This is referred to as the ??

In the endocrine system, which is known as the master gland.

What isn't involved in neural firing in the brains?

When a neuron is excited by a chemical messenger, the change in electrical charge must be researched in order to trigger an action potential is referred to as the ?

Hormones transmit signals faster than neurotransmitters do?

The correct order of a nerve impulse is?

Alzheimer's disease is closely linked to the deterioration of neurons that produce ??

Children often throw illogical temper tantrums and cannot think about abstract concepts. Which part of their brains is underdeveloped??

Nick and Joe were in a car accident and boh lost the ability to play the guitar and piano. What areas of the brain may have been damaged since they could no longer produce coordinated movements.

Which are of the brain acts like a traffic cop directing all sensory signals to the cerebral cortex except smell.

When byron is asked a question, he replies with unrelated words that do not follow grammar rules. Which part of the brain is probably damaged?

A person who has a brain injury is having difficulty seeing and hearing. These symptoms indicate that damage has occured in the?

The localization of a function such as speech production to the right or left aside of the brain is called.

Severing a cats reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to?

Your life would be most immediately threatened if you suffered destruction of the?

The excitatory neurotransmitter that increases communication between neurons is called.

People can simultaneously process many aspects of sensory information such as color, shape and size. This best illustrated the functioning of multiple??

Abnormally low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin are associated with?

What is most likely to occur when the brain is repeatedly flooded with artificial opiates?

A bundle of axons that form part of the central nervous system and controls reflexive actions

A loosely connected network of structures under the cerebral cortex. Important in both memory emotion. Its two principal structures are the amygdala and hippocampus. Whats it called??

The stembike brain area that includes much of the hindbrain (excluding the cerebellum) and the mid brain; connects with the spinal cord at its lower and then extends upward to encase reticular formation in the midbrain.

This is not apart of a neuron?

Which part of the peripheral nervous system controls voluntary movements?

The brains of patients with Parkinson's disease have little dopamine . Drugs used to treat such patients bind to dopamine receptors, thereby stimulating those receptors. these drugs would be considered????

Rem rebound involves...

As inge recalled her dream, she was dancing with a tall, dark gentle man when suddenly the music shifted to metal and the man disappeared according to freud, the dream itself is the ____ content.

90 minutes is the average length of...

Consciousness is?

Dr Dayton occasionally stops breathing while sleeping . He wakes up to snort air for a few seconds before going back to sleep.He snores. Clearly he suffers from...

Why is rem called paradoxical sleep?

Research indicates that alcohol...

money is to food as _____ is to ______

Purchasing state lottery tickets is reinforced with monetary winnings on a _______ schedule

Which sleep stage is characterized by delta waves