Questão 1
Questão
Which are structural techniques?
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X-ray and CT
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MRI
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Contrast agents
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging
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PET
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fMRI
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EEG
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MEG
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ECoG
Questão 2
Questão
Which are functional techniques?
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PET
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fMRI
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EEG
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MEG
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ECoG
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MRI
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CT
Questão 3
Questão
X-ray and CT techniques are great at showing:
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Blood vessels
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Different brain regions
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Ventricles
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Electrical activity
Questão 4
Questão
_________ ventricles could be due to tumour; _________ ventricles could be due to schizophrenia
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Shrunken; expanded
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Expanded; shrunken
Questão 5
Questão
Which technique measures proton densities?
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MRI
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Contrast agents
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PET
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Electrocorticography
Questão 6
Questão
What is the most common contrast agent?
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Gadolinium
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TM tomato
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Haemoglobin
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Phosphorescents
Questão 7
Questão
What is true of Diffusion Tensor Imaging?
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Shows fibre tracts
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Measures hydrogen densities
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Is a structural MRI technique
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Water molecules diffuse more easily through the cross-section of neurons than along the long axis
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Makes a lot of assumptions
Questão 8
Questão
Which technique involves the injection of a radioactive isotope?
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CT
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PET
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Electrocorticography
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MEG
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Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Questão 9
Questão
What are examples of radioactive isotopes?
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Oxygen
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Glucose
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Gadolinium
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Tm tomato
Questão 10
Questão
The brain takes about [blank_start]3[blank_end]% of the body's weight, but uses about [blank_start]20[blank_end]% of its nutrients
Questão 11
Questão
What is true of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow (rCBF)?
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Active regions release Nitrous Oxide to local arterioles
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Nitrous Oxide released retroactively
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Causes arterioles to constrict
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Very slow change
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Causes change in ratio of de:oxygenated blood
Questão 12
Questão
Which techniques are based on the close association between vasculature and metabolism?
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fMRI
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PET
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EEG
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MEG
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Contrast agents
Questão 13
Questão
Which techniques measure electromagnetic fields generated by ionic current flow in active neurons?
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EEG
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MEG
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fMRI
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PET
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Contrast agents
Questão 14
Questão
Which techniques are invasive?
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MRI
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PET
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Electrocorticography
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EEG
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MEG
Questão 15
Questão
Which technique involves placing grids of electrodes directly on the surface of the brain?
Questão 16
Questão
When is Electrocorticography used?
Questão 17
Questão
What does MEG measure?
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Strength of magnetic field
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Strength of electrical field
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Location of magnetic field
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Location of electrical field
Questão 18
Questão
What is contained in a "dewer" and used to keep the SQUID close to absolute zero?
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Liquid helium
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Nitrous oxide
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Dry ice
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Hydrogen
Questão 19
Questão
Why do MRI scans have to be done after MEG?
Questão 20
Questão
Which technique induces electrical current flow by producing strong magnetic fields?
Questão 21
Questão
Which technique delivers a small electrical current?
Questão 22
Questão
Which is true of children's Fusiform gyrus response to faces, compared to adults:
Questão 23
Questão
What is true of standard template brains?
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Normalise brains
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Allows statistical analyses on brain maps
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Is a standard size and shape
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Used for structural brain images
Questão 24
Questão
Which standard template brain is based on a single well-characterised brain?
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Talairach atlas
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MNI atlas
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Tesseract atlas
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Monoamine atlas
Questão 25
Questão
Which standard template brain is based on an average of hundreds of MRI scans?
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MNI atlas
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Talairach atlas
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Tesseract atlas
Questão 26
Questão
When is fMRI mostly used?
Questão 27
Questão
When is MEG usually used?
Questão 28
Questão
What is true of hippocampal theta oscillations?
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Very active in novel environments
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Ties together place cells
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Tuned to specific locations in an environment
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Different place cells fire at different phases of the theta oscillation
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Important for semantic memory
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Measured by EEG
Questão 29
Questão
Which regions make up the Default Mode Network?
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Cingulate
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Parietal
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Frontal
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Temporal
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Occipital
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Limbic
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Diencephalonic
Questão 30
Questão
Which techniques are based on machine-learning?
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Connectivity
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Decoding
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Connectomics
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Machine reading
Questão 31
Questão
What is true of Connectivity analysis?
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Based on graph theory
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Emphasises brain structures over brain networks
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Multi-voxel pattern analysis
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Based on machine-learning
Questão 32
Questão
What is true of Decoding techniques?
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Multi-voxel pattern analysis
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Analyses patterns of activity to complex stimuli
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Analyses patterns of activity to simple stimuli
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Based on graph theory
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Based on machine-learning
Questão 33
Questão
Why is the reproducibility crisis particularly acute in neuroimaging?
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Huge amount of data
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Increased possibilty of false positives
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Too expensive to have large samples
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Large researcher degrees of freedom
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Statistical double-dipping
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Results tend to have a large impact on society
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Pre-registration of hypotheses
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Data sharing
Questão 34
Questão
How has fMRI improved?
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Gone from 1.5 T to 7 T
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Better image stability
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Better signal:noise ratio
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Strongest magnets can reslve activity in different cortical layers
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Higher temporal resolution
Questão 35
Questão
How has MEG improved?
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Moving from SQUID to Optically Pumped Magnetometers
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Human Neocortical Neurosolver
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Dramatically improved data acquisition capabilities
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Strongest magnets can resolve activity in different cortical layers
Questão 36
Questão
What are Optically Pumped Magnetometers?
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Require liquid helium
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Sensors placed directly on scalp
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But reduced signal:noise ratio
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Uses computers to map underlying circuit-level activity
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Only one place in the world has them
Questão 37
Questão
Why isn't neuroimaging useful for psychiatric diagnosis?
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Low specificity
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High sensitivity
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High standardization
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Most psychiatric imaging studies are done on groups
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Different disorders have similar neural patterns
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DSM has much higher validity
Questão 38
Questão
Who said that we are currently not able to use brain imaging for psychiatric diagnoses, and may not ever be?
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Farah & Gillihan
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Aubertin & Bouillaud
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Flouren & Gerschwind
Questão 39
Questão
Aside from diagnosis, why might brain imaging be useful in psychiatry?
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Can suggest new treatments
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DBS came from identifying deep brain areas that are hypoactive in depression
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Quantifying and predicting treatment response
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Classifying syndromes based on neuroimaging profile
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Real-time neurofeedback may be a treatment in itself