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What lobe in the brain is essential for visual interpretation?
Occipital Lobe
What is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis also called?
Lou Gehrig Disease.
What are the three bones inside the ear, that vibrate, consequently vibrating the oval window?
malleus (hammer), incus (anvil), stapes (stirrup)
Early onset of Parkinson's are linked to mutations in the -
What protein does the gene code for?
PARK2 gene codes for protein parkin.
What is a neurodegenerative disorder that results in loss of motor neurons?
Parkinson's Disease
What waves occur when we are asleep?
Delta and Theta.
What chemical is used to replicate Parkinson's in mice for scientific research?
MPTP (1-methyl-4- phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine)
For what mutation (in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) is there a hope of a gene silencing technique using an artificial RNA snippet?
SOD1 mutation
What brain region is important in processing working memory?
Hippocampus
What animal was used extensively to understand how synaptic plasticity works?
Aplysia Californica.
What is the neural tract that connects the temporal lobes?
smaller anterior commisure
A lab animal such as a fly or mouse must be genetically modified so that some of its neurons produce a protein that glows when a laser beam shines on them. What is this technique?
two-photon microscopy
What photoreceptor is activated in dim environments?
Rods.
Sense of taste is called -
Gustation
A thin sheet of neural tissue no larger than a half-dollar is located in the occipital lobe at the back of your brain.
Primary visual cortex
What is the approved FDA drug to treat chorea in Huntington's?
deutetrabenazine
What are the three colors that the cones (photoreceptors) are sensitive to?
Red, green, and blue.
Sense of smell is called -
Olfaction
"What" stream in visual interpretation.
Ventral stream
What is an antisense oligonucleotide — a single strand of chemically modified DNA designed to interrupt and decrease the mutated form of the huntingtin protein produced in HD patients
IONIS-HTTRx