Neurons
This structure receives signals from other neurons.
Dendrites
What protein maintains resting potential?
Sodium potassium pump
How do neurotransmitters leave the axon terminal?
Exocytosis
The minimum stimulus required to open Na+ channels is called this.
The Threshold potential.
What type of neurons link motor and sensory neurons?
Interneurons
Who was the second man to walk on the moon?
Buzz Aldrin
What is the status of the sodium and potassium channels during depolarization?
Sodium open, potassium closed
Influx of which ion mediates the release of neurotransmitters?
Calcium
What caused the insensitivity to pain of the Pakistani boy in the reading?
Nonresponsive/mutant sodium channels
Name all of the US states that begin with the word New.
New Hampshire, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York
What are the 2 branches of the peripheral nervous system?
Motor and sensory
What animal is said to have nurtured the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus?
A wolf
Name 2 neurotransmitters.
Dopamine, serotonin, GABA, acetylcholine, adrenaline, noradrenaline, endorphins
What element did Pierre and Marie Curie discover in 1898?
Radium
What type of responses do not involve the brain?
Reflexes
This is the fatty insulation that increases the speed of conduction.
myelin sheath
What is the phase of the action potential where the neuron becomes hyperpolarized?
Refractory period
What kind of TV ads were banned in the US in 1970?
Cigarette ads
Give one of the two type of summation.
Spatial or temporal
What autoimmune disease results in the loss of myelin?
MS
Saltatory conduction involves the jumping of an action potential between these gaps in the covering of the axon.
Nodes of Ranvier
How is an action potential forced to move in one direction down the axon?
Inactivation of sodium channels
What kind of channels are influences by neurotransmitters?
What is the role of acetylcholinesterase?
Break down acetylcholine.
How do SSRIs work?
Block reuptake of seratonin