Answer each question to the best of your ability. Difficulty level: Hard. Best of luck!
- Question of
___________ disorder is associated with decreased activity in the mirror neuron system.
- Depression
- Autism
- Schizophrenia
- Narcolepsy
- Question of
____________ is divided into 4 lobes.
- cerebral hemisphere
- cerebellum
- hypothalamus
- cerebral cortex
- Question of
______________ pairs of brain areas both contain neurons that use acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter.
- Raphe nucleus and medial septum
- Dorsolateral pons and locus coeruleus
- Raphe nucleus and locus coeruleus
- Dorsolateral pons and medial septum.
- Question of
Which of the following neurotransmitter system is also active during REM sleep?
- Orexin
- Acetylcholine
- Serotonin
- Noradrenalin
- Question of
Receptor sites for neurotransmitters are found on the __________of receiving neurons.
- synaptic vesicles
- axons
- dendrites
- clefts
- Question of
When we are afraid, the sympathetic division of the autonomic Nervous system accelerates the heart rate.
- True
- False
- Question of
The key language centers in the brain are located in the __________?
- frontal lobe
- Limbic system
- Left hemisphere
- Right hemisphere
- Question of
Which of the following characteristics have action potentials?
- they are an all-or-none response
- they are triggered any time a neuron is stimulated
- they are reversible
- none of the above
- Question of
The small fluid-filled gap between neurons, across which neurotransmitters travel, is called
- synapse
- axon terminal
- interneuron
- synaptic cleft
- Question of
the following structure is found in the hindbrain is
- limbic system
- hypothalamus
- pons
- Cerebrum
- Question of
Neurons are;
- Support and nourish glial cells
- transmit neural impulses
- manufacture myelin
- are one kind of transmitter
- Question of
motor neurons are generally known as;
- afferent neurons
- glial cells
- reflex arcs
- efferent neurons
- Question of
The brain weighs about 6 pounds.
- True
- False