Anterior vs Posterior Pituitary
Brain Anatomy
Neurophysiology
Blood & Hormones
Clinical & Misc
100

These hormones are made and released in the anterior pituitary

What is FLAT PEG (FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, Prolactin, Endorphins, GH)?

100

This brain lobe controls vision

What is the occipital lobe?

100

This ion flows IN during depolarization

What is Na+?

100

Hormone that lowers blood glucose

What is insulin?

100

Term for inflammation

What is -itis?

200

These hormones are made in hypothalamus but released in posterior pituitary

What are oxytocin and ADH?

200

This structure controls HR, BP, and breathing

What is the medulla oblongata?

200

These potentials sum to reach threshold

What are EPSPs and IPSPs?

200

Hormones that increase blood glucose (name one)

What is glucagon (or cortisol, epinephrine, GH)?

200

This fracture is a twisting break

What is a spiral fracture?

300

This hormone increases water reabsorption via aquaporins

What is ADH?

300

This lobe controls decision making and voluntary movement

What is the frontal lobe?

300

This type of summation occurs over time

What is temporal summation?

300

Normal blood osmolarity value

What is ~300 mOsm/L?
 

300

This disease involves loss of dopaminergic neurons

What is Parkinson’s disease?

400

Alcohol does this to ADH

What is inhibit it?

400

This structure connects left and right hemispheres

What is corpus callosum?

400

This channel opens at threshold to start AP

What is voltage-gated Na+ channel?

400

This equation calculates cardiac output

What is CO = HR × SV?

400

This nerve controls diaphragm

What is the phrenic nerve (C3–C5)?

500

This pituitary is called the “master gland”

What is the anterior pituitary?

500

This system includes amygdala and hippocampus

What is the limbic system?

500

This ion exits during repolarization

What is K+?

500

This formula calculates MAP

What is MAP = D + (S−D)/3?

500

Main reason cancers are deadly physiologically

What is they change structure → function?

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