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Neuroscience Exam I

Question 1 of 70

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The medical practice of means "to bore a hole into the skull".

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Question 2 of 70

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Claudius Galen was a physician who studied the cerebrum, cerebellum, and by .

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Question 3 of 70

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Ibn al-Haythan proposed occurred in the brain and wrote "The Book of Optics".

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Mansurs Ibn Ilyas was a .

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Question 5 of 70

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The Greek researcher, , thought the heart was the center of thought.

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The Greek researcher, , is known as the , and discovered that the brain is involved in sensation.

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Question 7 of 70

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Beregarius de Carpi was an anatomist who preformed public dissections and re-articulated a human skeleton.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 8 of 70

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Rene Descartes:

Select one of the following:

  • believed the "mind" resided in the pineal gland

  • rearticulated a human skeleton

  • perfected the microscope

  • studied the four humors

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Question 9 of 70

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Who perfected the microscope?

Select one of the following:

  • Beregarius de Carpi

  • Leonardo da Vinci

  • Claudius Galen

  • Leeuwenhoek

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Question 10 of 70

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Luigi Galvani discovered stimulation on nerves could cause , and noticed consistent and patterning that lead to the recognition of cerebral .

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Question 11 of 70

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Charles Bell differentiated between and neurons.

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Richard Caton detected signals from the brain, also known as waves.

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Camillo Golgi performed staining and showed that the nervous system adhered to .

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Question 14 of 70

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The ridges of the cerebral cortex are known as , while the smaller grooves of the cortex are called .

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Question 15 of 70

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The retina is part of the PNS.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 16 of 70

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The inferior colliculus is responsible for and is located in the .

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Question 17 of 70

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The diencephalon contains four parts: the , , and .

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Question 18 of 70

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The habenula is the and is located in the .

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The , also known as the , produces melatonin.

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Question 20 of 70

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Choose all correct parts of the telencephalon.

Select one or more of the following:

  • lateral ventricles

  • amygdala

  • basal ganglion (basal telencephalon)

  • hippocampus

  • thalamus

  • cortex

  • olfactory cortex

  • hypothalamus

  • optic cortex

  • tegmentum

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Question 21 of 70

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The mesencephalon contains three parts: the , and .

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Holoblastic cleavage is when there is cell division and the absence of large concentrations of in the fertilized cell.

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Question 23 of 70

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The myelencephalon controls motor nuclei that are responsible for the regulation of blood pressure, digestion, and heart rate.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 24 of 70

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The metencephalon controls

Select one of the following:

  • fine motor movement

  • breathing

  • speech production

  • involuntary reflexes (coughing, sneezing, vomiting, etc.)

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Question 25 of 70

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The myelencephalon is also called the .

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Question 26 of 70

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The metencephalon contains the and .

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Question 27 of 70

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A lack of cerebrospinal fluid drainage results in .

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Question 28 of 70

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Which of the following is not part of the brain stem?

Select one of the following:

  • Medulla oblongata

  • Pons

  • Tectum

  • Tegmentum

  • Cerebellum

  • Mesencephalon

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Question 29 of 70

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The visceral PNS is responsible for stimulating gland secretion.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 30 of 70

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A collection of axons in the PNS is called a . A collection of axons in the CNS is called a .

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Question 31 of 70

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is the term that refers to the brain being smooth.

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Question 32 of 70

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There are ( 12, 14, 10, 13 ) pairs of spinal nerves.

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Question 33 of 70

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The cauda equina is a collection of ( 12, 10, 4, 2 ) nerves at the base of the spine.

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Question 34 of 70

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The division of the PNS controls muscle movement.

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Question 35 of 70

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In which major brain structure would you find the third ventricle?

Select one of the following:

  • The cerebellum

  • The mesencephalon

  • The diencephalon

  • The rhombencephalon

  • The cerebrum

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Question 36 of 70

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The three primary germ layers are the , and , and the is responsible for the origin of the nervous system.

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Question 37 of 70

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cleavage is when there is complete cell division, whereas cleavage includes little to no cell division.

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Question 38 of 70

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The acronym IACUC stands for the Institution of .

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Question 39 of 70

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Broca's area is responsible for

Select one of the following:

  • speech production

  • speech comprehension

  • proprioception

  • sleep regulation

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Question 40 of 70

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imaging takes advantage of the fact that water flows along the length of an axon.

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Question 41 of 70

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DTI provides large images of

Select one of the following:

  • cell bodies

  • brain activity

  • axon tracts

  • the cerebral cortex

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Question 42 of 70

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are protrusions into the venous sinuses that provide a point of entry for CSF into the venous blood.

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Question 43 of 70

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The houses the motor cortex.

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The body makes approximately mLs of CSF per day.

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was a 17th century French invention that reinforced 2nd century ideas of how the brain initiated movement.

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of the is a rare congenital disorder of white matter that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.

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Question 47 of 70

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The filum terminale connects the medullary cone to the lumbar vertebrae.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 48 of 70

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The arachnoid trabeculae is a delicate connective tissue between the and .

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Question 49 of 70

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Ganglia are in the PNS.

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Question 50 of 70

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List the function of the following: the cerebellum-- ; the hypothalamus-- ; the thalamus-- center

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Question 51 of 70

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Which type of cell could differentiate into a twin embryo?

Select one of the following:

  • Pluripotent

  • Totipotent

  • Multipotent

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Question 52 of 70

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Which cell manufactures homatopoetic stem cells (adult stem cells) from bone marrow?

Select one of the following:

  • Totipotent

  • Multipotent

  • Pluripotent

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Question 53 of 70

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Which type of cell can differentiate into any form of bodily tissue, and is known as a "stem cell"?

Select one of the following:

  • Totipotent

  • Pluripotent

  • Multipotent

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Question 54 of 70

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is the thinning and spreading of over underlying macromere cells.

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Question 55 of 70

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Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) is a

Select one of the following:

  • hormone

  • morphogen

  • brain cell

  • drug

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Question 56 of 70

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In humans, the blastula is known as the .

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A high concentration of Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) causes cells to develop into cells, while mid-level concentrations cause development, and low concentrations create .

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Question 58 of 70

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is the process of rapid cell division with no cell growth.

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Question 59 of 70

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refers to the equal distribution of yolk throughout the ovum cytoplasm, while refers to uneven yolk distribution at one end of a zygote.

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Question 60 of 70

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Anencephaly occurs when

Select one of the following:

  • the anterior neuropore does not completely close

  • the posterior neuropore does not completely close

  • the expecting mother does not get enough folic acid in her diet

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Question 61 of 70

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Critical period #1 involves .

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Question 62 of 70

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The rhomboid fossa is closed as the develops.

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Question 63 of 70

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The interior neuropore is closed as the develops.

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Question 64 of 70

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Neural crest cells form

Select one of the following:

  • motor neurons of the PNS

  • sensory neurons of the PNS

  • motor neurons of the CNS

  • sensory neurons of the CNS

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Question 65 of 70

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The three long axon pathways in the CNS are , and .

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Question 66 of 70

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The associational long axon pathway is white matter tract involved in

Select one of the following:

  • connecting cortical & subcortical pathways

  • generating homologous hemispherical parts

  • connecting one neuron to another neuron

  • connecting one part of the cortex to another

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Question 67 of 70

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The projection long axon pathway is involved in

Select one of the following:

  • connecting one part of the cortex to another

  • input integration

  • connecting subcortical and cortical structures

  • generating homologous hemispherical structures

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Question 68 of 70

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The commissural long axon pathway is involved in

Select one of the following:

  • input integration

  • connecting one neuron to another neuron

  • generating homologous hemispherical structures

  • connecting the cerebrum and cerebellum

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Question 69 of 70

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The connects the cerebrum to the cerebellum or brain stem.

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is the process of programmed cell death, also called "pruning".

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