The Nervous and Endocrine System
This is responsible for gathering information and for transmitting Central Nervous System(CNS) decisions to other body parts
What is the peripheral nervous system?
A neuron’s often bushy, branching extensions that receive and integrate messages, conducting impulses toward the body
What is a dendrite?
The brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or building new pathways based on experience
What is neuroplasticity?
What is neuroplasticity?
When a person is suffering from severe pain, the type of drug that will best help alleviate that pain is
What is an opiate? (I'll accept opioids)
This enables voluntary control of our skeletal muscles
What is the somatic nervous system?
This is generated by the movement of positively charged atoms in and out of channels in the axon’s membrane
What is an action potential?
A participant in a study of music perception listens to music with electrodes attached to her scalp while data are collected on the activity of her brain. This technique is called
What is electroencephalography (EEG)?
A brain tumor that results in obesity would most likely be located in the (which area)?
What is the area of the hypothalamus?
A certain drug reduces the activity of the central nervous system, including the hippocampus and cerebellum. It affects several neurotransmitters, most notably gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Which of the following is most like the drug in question ?
What is alcohol?
This part of the brain directs the pituitary gland to regular growth and control other endocrine glands
What is the hypothalamus?
The sympathetic nervous system releases this neurotransmitter. It helps control alertness and arousal.
What is norepinephrine?
This depicts brain activity by showing each brain area’s consumption of its chemical field, the sugar glucose
What is a PET(positron emission tomogrpahy) scan
Brain damage that leaves a person capable of understanding speech but with an impaired ability to produce speech most likely indicates injury to which of the following?
What is Broca's Area?
Richard is in a substance abuse treatment center because of his addiction to stimulants. He is experiencing withdrawal symptoms, so he drinks several large caffeinated sodas throughout the day to curb his symptoms. Caffeine is in the same class as which of the following drugs?
What is cocaine?
Ben was enjoying a walk in the woods on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. As he went around a curve, he noticed a bear walking toward him. Immediately his pupils dilated, he began to perspire, and his heart accelerated. These changes are most closely related to the function of which of the following?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
A fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing the axons of some neurons, enables vastly greater transmission speed as neural impulses hop from one node to the next
What is a myelin sheath?
A technique for revealing blood flow, and therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans
What is a fMRI(functional MRI)?
Significant damage to which of the following parts of the brain will most likely cause a person to fall into a deep coma from which the person will be unable to awaken?
What is reticular formation?
The drugs that block the reabsorption of neurotransmitters in the synapse during neural transmission are best identified as which of the following concepts?
What are reuptake inhibitors?
Digesting food is part of the _________ system.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Natural, opiate-like neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure
What are endorphins?
This part of the brainstem controls heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
Damage to which of the following brain structures may cause the inability to detect the emotional significance of facial expressions, especially those demonstrating fear?
What is the amygdala?
Which of the following is classified as an antagonist?
What is an antidepressant, because they block serotonin and norepinephrine receptors?