Neuroanatomy
This lobe contains the primary motor cortex, responsible for voluntary movement.
Frontal Lobe
These glial cells produce myelin in the central nervous system.
What are oligodendrocytes?
This neurotransmitter is the primary excitatory transmitter in the CNS.
What is glutamate?
This disease involves progressive demyelination in the CNS.
What is multiple sclerosis?
This scientist famously conditioned dogs to salivate to a bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This structure connects the two cerebral hemispheres and allows communication between them.
The rapid conduction of action potentials between nodes of Ranvier is called this.
What is saltatory conduction?
This neurotransmitter is the primary inhibitory transmitter in the brain.
What is GABA?
Excessive synchronous firing of neurons produces this neurological event.
What is a seizure?
This patient lost the ability to form new explicit memories after hippocampal removal.
Who is Henry Molaison?
Damage to this area often causes difficulty producing speech, while comprehension remains intact.
This ion’s influx is primarily responsible for the depolarization phase of an action potential.
What is sodium?
Loss of neurons producing this neurotransmitter is strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra causes this disorder.
What is Parkinson's Disease
This researcher electrically stimulated rats’ brains, revealing reward pathways.
Who is James Olds (or Olds and Milner)?
This thalamic structure acts as the brain’s primary relay station for sensory information.
What is the thalamus?
The resting membrane potential is largely maintained by this membrane protein pump.
What is the sodium potassium pump?
This neurotransmitter is released at the neuromuscular junction to trigger muscle contraction.
What is acetylcholine?
This condition is associated with beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
What is Alzheimer's Disease
This split-brain researcher demonstrated lateralization of function.
Who is Roger Sperry?
This folded structure within the medial temporal lobe is crucial for memory consolidation and spatial navigation.
What is the hippocampus?
This principle states that neurons receive thousands of excitatory and inhibitory inputs that combine to determine firing.
What is summation?
This receptor type directly opens ion channels and produces rapid synaptic responses.
What is an ionotropic receptor?
Damage to the left angular gyrus may impair this ability: translating visual symbols into language.
What is reading (alexia)?
This 19th-century railroad worker survived frontal lobe damage, revealing its role in personality.
Phineas Gage