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Question 1

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What is the correct statement about the dorsal column?
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  • It is stimulated by crude touch and pressure 
  • Receptors on Golgi tendon organ is stimulated within the muscle spindle 
  • It is stimulated by pain and temperature  
  • Alpha-motoneuron goes to the extrafusal fibers 
  • Has two points discrimination

Question 2

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Where does neurogenesis take place?
Answer
  • Hippocampus
  • Spinal cord
  • Frontal lobe
  • Cerebellum
  • Thalamus

Question 3

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Kluver-Bucy syndrome is:
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  • Lesion of ventral hypothalamus
  • Loss of fear as well as hypersexuality
  • Calmness
  • Increased emotional expression
  • Lesion to hippocampus

Question 4

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What is the major role of the astrocytes?
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  • Produce myelination of the axons
  • Protection of neurons and production of enzymatic CSF 
  • Support of neural cells
  • Interconnecting the neurons 
  • Produce the blood-brain barrier

Question 5

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What is the definition of the RP (receptor potential)?
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  • “All or none” principle
  • Amplitude increase with increased intensity of stimulus
  • Frequency increase with increased intensity of stimulus
  • Amplitude decrease with increased intensity of stimulus
  • Frequency decrease with increased intensity of stimulus

Question 6

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What is the correct definition of declarative (explicit) memory?
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  • Memory not involving the hippocampus
  • Not associated with consciousness (awareness)
  • Associated with consciousness (awareness)
  • Associated with skills and habits
  • Divided into associative and non-associative learning

Question 7

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What structures passes through the medial brainstem?
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  • Cerebral peduncle
  • Reticular formation
  • Dorsal column
  • Substantia nigra

Question 8

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What is typical for Alzheimer’s disease?
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  • Remembering new events (short-term memory) and forgetting former events
  • The number of neurons is intact but the mediators for these are destroyed
  • Neurofibrillary tangles inside the neurons caused by hyperphosphorylation of tau
  • Poor long term memory, but intact short term memory
  • Neurons are intact but destruction of synapses

Question 9

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Which senses are carried through the dorsal column?
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  • Pain and temperature
  • Crude touch and pressure
  • Fine touch, space localization and pressure
  • Vibration and pressure
  • Itching and fine touch

Question 10

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The reticular formation:
Answer
  • Controls voluntary movement
  • Controls involuntary movements
  • Controls levels of consciousness
  • Determine whether stimulus is important enough to wake up
  • Is located in the primary motor cortex

Question 11

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What is true for mirror neurons?
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  • Implicated in voluntary movement
  • Located in parieto-occipital lobe
  • Fire when observing someone else perform a movement
  • Responsible only for emotion recognition
  • All above are correct

Question 12

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Reflex arc of inverse stretch reflex:
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  • Afferent fibers are 1b fibers
  • Contracted muscle contracted, antagonist muscle relaxed
  • Contain four elements
  • Protects the body from injury
  • Is a monosynaptic reflex

Question 13

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Which hormones inhibit the hunger center in the brain? 
Answer
  • Ghrelin
  • Melanin
  • Neuropeptide Y
  • B-endorphins
  • Leptin

Question 14

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The dynamic part of the stretch reflex is responsible for:
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  • Maintaining the muscle tone as a static response
  • Rapid muscle contraction to oppose sudden changes in muscle length
  • Stretching the muscle halfway
  • A weak or slow muscle contraction
  • Rapid response due to changes in primary endings on nuclear chain fibers 

Question 15

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Neurotrophins are:
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  • Produced by neurons during neuron degeneration
  • Proteins produced by glial cells and inflammatory cells
  • Large proteins that maintain function and growth of neurons
  • Cannot induce differentiation of progenitor cells to form neurons
  • Secreted predominantly outside the target tissues

Question 16

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What is a function of the cerebellum?
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  • Detect fine touch and pressure
  • Process sensory information from the periphery
  • Process information from thermoreceptors
  • Process and send signals to regulate movement
  • Takes part in the direct pathway of voluntary movement

Question 17

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What is the function of intrafusal fibers?
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  • Detect change in length of extrafusal fibers
  • Transmit signals via alpha fibers
  • Have no important role in the muscle contraction
  • Responsible for contractibility of a muscle
  • Make up a large amount of skeletal (striated) muscle

Question 18

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Pyramidal tract transmits through:
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  • Alpha motoneuron
  • Gamma motoneuron
  • Intermediate neuron
  • Sensory neuron
  • Inhibitory interneuron

Question 19

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REM sleep is referred with:
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  • Sleep where memories can be remembered during
  • Sleep where dreams cannot be recalled
  • Deep, restful sleep
  • Increased muscle tone and decreased heart rate
  • Eye movement are at a minimum

Question 20

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Hormones that excite satiety (feeling full) is:
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  • Leptin, Ghrelin, POMC, CART
  • Leptin, CCK, POMC, Oxytocin
  • Neuropeptide Y, Orexins A and B, Melanin
  • B-endorphins, CCK, CRH, Oxytocin, Leptin
  • Neuropeptide Y, Glucagon, GLP-1, GLP-2

Question 21

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Things that activate cold receptors (things that make you hot) are:
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  • Sweat evaporation
  • Increased apatite
  • Cutaneous vasodilation
  • Decreased rate of physical activity
  • Increased thirst

Question 22

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The amygdaloidal body is responsible for:
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  • Skills and habits
  • Endocrine system
  • Creating negative feelings like rage and fear
  • Controlling the pain gate system
  • Creating positive feelings like euphoria

Question 23

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Which statement about cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is correct?
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  • It is absorbed by the choroid plexus
  • Its absorption is independent of CSF pressure
  • It circulates in the epidural space
  • It has a lower glucose concentration than plasma
  • It has a higher protein concentration than plasma

Question 24

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Which statement about REM sleep is correct?
Answer
  • Is also called paradoxical sleep
  • Regular EEG waves
  • Dreams cannot be recalled
  • Decreased heart rate and respiration
  • REM sleep duration decreases with each sleep cycle

Question 25

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The reward system is connected with:
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  • Posterior hypothalamus
  • The cholinergic system
  • The dopaminergic system
  • Involvement of entorhinal cortex
  • Ventral tegmentum and dorsal midbrain

Question 26

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The pain gate:
Answer
  • Glutamate and Substance P close the gate
  • Is independent on enkephalinergic system 
  • Is independent on endorphin system 
  • Enkephalin close the pain gate in the spinal cord
  • Is closed by both non-painful input and painful input

Question 27

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Conditioned reflexes are evoked under which conditions?
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  • Unconditioned stimulus repeated many times
  • Conditioned stimulus repeated many times
  • Unconditioned and conditioned stimulus paired many times
  • Conditioned stimulus present enough without unconditioned stimulus
  • An external input is present

Question 28

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Which of the following statements about the prefrontal, association area is correct?
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  • Planning of voluntary movement and prediction
  • Area for language comprehension
  • Area for visual language (reading)
  • Role in behavior, emotions and motivation
  • Analysis of spatial coordination

Question 29

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Lesion to the upper motor neurons leads to?
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  • Decreased reflexes
  • Spasticity 
  • Flaccid paralysis 
  • Negative Babinski sign
  • Decreased muscle tone
  • Oscillation of muscles

Question 30

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Parkinson’s disease:
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  • Degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra 
  • Symptoms include rigidity and decreased muscle tone
  • Loss of cholinergic receptors
  • Rapid movements
  • Repeat of trinucleotide CAG on chromosome 4

Question 31

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What is correct about cerebellum?
Answer
  • It compares movement intended with actual movements
  • It controls posture and equilibrium 
  • Lesion leads to hypertonicity 
  • Control muscle contraction
  • All answers are correct

Question 32

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Cerebellum:
Answer
  • Initiate movements 
  • Directly stimulate thalamus
  • Controls levels of consciousness
  • “Decodes” the sensory signals
  • Regulation of muscle tone and spinal reflexes

Question 33

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Lesion to upper margin of pons will:
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  • Change the regulation of brain activity
  • Result in loss of consciousness
  • Effect the reticular activation system
  • Increase muscle tone by increased signals to gamma motoneurons
  • Decreased muscle tone by increased signals to gamma motoneurons

Question 34

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Which is true concerning delta waves in EEG?
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  • Appear at consciousness
  • Could be registered selectively from hippocampus
  • Appear in deep sleep
  • Represent sleep spindles
  • Are characterized by high amplitude and high frequency
  • Are characterized by low amplitude and high frequency

Question 35

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Which statement regarding REM sleep is correct?
Answer
  • Constitutes of 4 stages
  • Is characterized by sleep spindles
  • Is important for consolidation of memory 
  • Is characterized by increased muscle tone and theta waves
  • In adults occupies 80% of whole sleep

Question 36

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During voluntary movement, the golgi tendon organ provides the central nervous system with information about: 
Answer
  • The length of the muscle being moved
  • The velocity of the movement
  • The blood flow to the muscle being moved
  • The tension developed by the muscle being moved
  • The change in joint angle produced by the movement

Question 37

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Repetitive stimulation of a skeletal muscle fiber will cause an increased contractile strength because repetitive stimulation causes an increase in: 
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  • The duration of cross bridge cycling
  • The concentration of calcium in the sarcoplasm
  • The magnitude of the end plate potential
  • The number of muscle myofibrils generating tension
  • The velocity of the muscle contraction

Question 38

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Conduction aphasia is likely to be associated with a lesion of the:
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  • Wernicke’s area 22
  • Parietal lobe
  • Frontal lobe
  • Arcuate fasciculus
  • Corticospinal tract

Question 39

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Most important role of gamma-motoneurons is to:
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  • Stimulate skeletal muscle fibers to contract
  • Maintain Ia afferent activity during contraction of muscle
  • Generate activity in Ib afferent fibers
  • Detect the length of resting skeletal muscle
  • Prevent muscles from producing too much force

Question 40

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Transmission through the anterolateral pathway ultimately ends up in the:
Answer
  • Primary motor cortex
  • Premotor cortex
  • Supplementary motor cortex
  • Somatosensory cortex SI and SII
  • Posterior parietal cortex

Question 41

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Kluver-Bucy syndrome will give what symptoms?
Answer
  • Diminished fear
  • Loss in apatite
  • Better memory recollection
  • Loss of balance
  • Increased ability to identify familiar objects or people

Question 42

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Final common pathway is another term for?
Answer
  • Higher motor neurons
  • Lower motor neurons
  • Effector organs
  • Integration center
  • Renshaw cells

Question 43

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Role of mirror neurons?
Answer
  • Fire when performing a voluntary task
  • Activated when watching someone perform ask
  • Is responsible for emotion recognition in other people
  • Can be found in the frontal or parietal lobe
  • All are correct

Question 44

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What characterizes alpha waves?
Answer
  • Have the highest frequency waves
  • They appear when studying for a test
  • They appear when you close your eyes
  • They appear only during deep sleep
  • They appear when awake and open eyes

Question 45

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What is the main reason for Huntington’s disease?
Answer
  • Loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra
  • Repeat of trinucleotide CAG on chromosome 5
  • Repeat of trinucleotide CAT on chromosome 4
  • Increased Cholinergic and GABA release
  • Decrease in GABAergic and cholinergic release

Question 46

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An abnormal Babinski reflex indicates damage to the:
Answer
  • Spinal cord
  • Brainstem
  • Cerebellum
  • Basal ganglia
  • Pyramids

Question 47

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Which fibers contract in the myotatic reflex?
Answer
  • Extrafusal muscle fibers
  • Intrafusal muscle fibers
  • Nuclear bag fibers
  • Nuclear chain fibers
  • Alpha fibers

Question 48

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What is the name of the phenomenon of “referred pain”?
Answer
  • Hyperalgesia
  • Dermatome theory
  • Alternate theory
  • Facilitation
  • Stereognosis

Question 49

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Which part of the brain is responsible for mathematical calculation and fact numbers?
Answer
  • Frontal and occipital
  • Frontal and parietal
  • Temporal and frontal
  • Temporal and parietal
  • Parietal and occipital

Question 50

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Lesion to upper motor neuron:
Answer
  • Negative Babinski sign
  • Loss of involuntary movement
  • Decreased muscle tone
  • Increased muscle tone
  • Fasciculation

Question 51

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All of the following are symptoms of cerebellar lesion except:
Answer
  • Rigidity
  • Nystagmus
  • Ataxia
  • Adiadochokinesia
  • Intention tremor

Question 52

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The majority of fibers from the thalamus goes toward the:
Answer
  • Cerebellum
  • Association cortex
  • Premotor cortex
  • Reticular nuclei
  • Primary somatosensory cortex

Question 53

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Which structure is not at the level of the medulla oblongata?
Answer
  • Cuneate nucleus
  • Abducent nucleus
  • Red nucleus
  • Facial nucleus
  • Reticular formation

Question 54

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What are the steps involved in the inverse stretch reflex?
Answer
  • Golgi tendon  monosynaptic pathway  contracted muscle stretched and antagonist muscle relaxed
  • Free nerve endings  polysynaptic pathway  inhibition of extensor and stimulation of flexor
  • Muscle spindle  monosynaptic pathway  extrafusal muscle fibers are stimulated
  • Golgi tendon  disynaptic pathway  contracted muscle relaxed and antagonist muscle contracted

Question 55

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Left hemisphere lesion is mainly responsible for:
Answer
  • Good feelings such as euphoria
  • Language disorder and depression
  • Loss of visualization of shapes and vision
  • Loss of sensation from the left side of the body
  • Less identification of form of objects and faces

Question 56

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Which of the following hypothalamic nuclei is responsible for controlling the normal circadian rhythm?
Answer
  • Paraventricular nucleus
  • Ventromedial nucleus
  • Arcuate nucleus
  • Lateral nucleus
  • Suprachiasmatic nucleus

Question 57

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Decerebrate rigidity:
Answer
  • Happens during Parkinson’s disease, when reduced inhibition by dopamine causes excitation of vestibular nuclei
  • Transsection of the brain stem at the medulla oblongata
  • Will cause increased muscle tone
  • Happens when descending signals to gamma motoneurons is increased which increases muscle tone
  • Is due to lesion of the upper pons and increased sensory sensitivity

Question 58

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Neurogenesis means:
Answer
  • That stem cells in the olfactory bulb can grow into new nerve cells
  • That stem cells in the hippocampus are involved in memory
  • That neurons are produced by neural stem cells
  • Glial cells can be produced and some new cells go through apoptosis
  • All correct

Question 59

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Which of the following statements is correct regarding neurotrophins?
Answer
  • NGF attaching to p75NT and Trk A prevents apoptosis
  • NGF attaching to p75NT and Trk A promotes cell survival
  • Neurotrophins are transported back from target nucleus by anterograde transport
  • Neurotrophins belongs to a large protein family
  • Neurotrophic receptors can be either p65 or Trk family

Question 60

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Plasticity means:
Answer
  • Topographical representation changes with experience
  • Sensory neurons to cortex can change with usage
  • Functions of different parts can change as needed
  • Sensory unit connections to cerebral cortex stays the same without use
  • Synaptic receptors become more sensitive

Question 61

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Cutting which of the following fibers can cause spastic paralysis?
Answer
  • Corticospinal fibers
  • Vestibulospinal fibers
  • Reticulospinal fibers
  • Spinothalamic fibers
  • Ia afferent fibers
  • Corticoreticular fibers

Question 62

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The center of the reward system is the:
Answer
  • Ventral tegmentum
  • Dorsal brain stem
  • Nucleus accumbens
  • Posterior hypothalamus
  • Dorsal midbrain

Question 63

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The sympathetic system involves:
Answer
  • Bronchiole dilation
  • Erection
  • Pupil constriction
  • Accommodation for short vision
  • Decreased heart rate

Question 64

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What is true about operant conditioning?
Answer
  • Discovered by Ivan Pavlov
  • Involve reward and punishment
  • The animal can learn from looking at other animal’s behavior
  • Animal learns skills by habituation
  • Is a type of non-associative learning

Question 65

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Mass reflex can involve the following symptom:
Answer
  • Hypotonicity
  • Dysdiadochokinesia
  • Two-point discrimination
  • Profuse sweating
  • None of the above

Question 66

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Where does neurogenesis take place?
Answer
  • Hippocampus
  • Spinal cord
  • Frontal lobe
  • Cerebellum

Question 67

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The role of the intrafusal fibers:
Answer
  • Located in the tendon, together with the tendon organ
  • Stretch of the central part of the muscle spindle following stimulation of gamma motoneurons
  • Innervated by alpha and contracted following stimulation of these neurons
  • Stimulated together with extrafusal muscle fibers
  • Only make up nuclear bag fibers

Question 68

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The major role of oligodendrocytes in the body is:
Answer
  • Absorption of CSF
  • Protection of nerves
  • Blood-brain barrier
  • Nourishment
  • None of the mentioned

Question 69

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Mass reflex can involve which of the following?
Answer
  • Loss of muscle tone
  • Rigidity
  • Muscle hypotrophy
  • Incontinence of urine
  • None of the mentioned

Question 70

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Referred pain is caused by:
Answer
  • Stereognosis
  • Facilitation
  • Hyperalgesia
  • Same dermatome origin
  • None of the mentioned

Question 71

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What does the anterolateral pathway transmit?
Answer
  • Fine touch sensation
  • Crude touch and temperature
  • Sensation from two points at once
  • Vibration and pressure sensation
  • Kinesthesia sensation

Question 72

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What is characteristic for transmission in the anterolateral pathway?
Answer
  • High velocity
  • Only temperature and pain is transmitted
  • Precise localization of sensation
  • Highly discrete localization is not required
  • Large, myelinated fibers

Question 73

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The precentral gyrus and corticospinal tract are essential for:
Answer
  • Vision
  • Olfaction
  • Auditory identification
  • Kinesthesia
  • Voluntary movement

Question 74

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During normal voluntary movement:
Answer
  • Large muscle fibers are recruited before small muscle fibers
  • Fast muscle fibers are recruited before slow muscle fibers
  • Weak muscle fibers are recruited before strong muscle fibers
  • Poorly perfused muscle fibers are recruited before richly perfused muscle fibers
  • Anaerobic fibers are recruited before aerobic fibers

Question 75

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Norepinephrine will cause the contraction of the smooth muscle in the:
Answer
  • Bronchioles
  • Arterioles
  • Pupils
  • Intestine
  • Ciliary body

Question 76

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The alpha rhythm appearing on an electroencephalogram has which of the following characteristics?
Answer
  • It produces 20 to 30 waves per second
  • It is replaced by slower, larger waves during REM sleep
  • It represents activity that is most pronounced in the frontal region of the brain
  • It disappears when patient’s eyes open
  • It is associated with deep sleep

Question 77

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Correct statement regarding rapid eye movement (REM) sleep include which of the following?
Answer
  • It is the first stage of sleep entered when a person falls asleep
  • It is accompanied by loss of skeletal muscle tone
  • It is characterized by a slow but steady heart rate
  • It occurs more often in adults than in children
  • It lasts longer than periods of slow-wave sleep

Question 78

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What nerve fibers transmit the thermal stimulus of heat and cold?
Answer
  • C-fibers
  • C-fibers and Ia fibers
  • Ib fibers
  • C-fibers and type III (A-delta fibers)
  • B-fibers

Question 79

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Reticular formation of brain stem is in charge of:
Answer
  • O2 consumption, respiration, temperature, circadian rhythm
  • Osmolarity, volume of extracellular fluid, glucose, appetite
  • Sequencing of movement, spatial-temporal relation
  • Secretion of glucocorticoids, catecholamines, dopamine, vasopressin
  • Heart rate, vasodilation, vasoconstriction, swallowing

Question 80

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Stimulation input from descending part of the reticular formation is known to produce:
Answer
  • Contraction of IF, contraction of SM
  • Stretch of IF, relaxation of SM
  • Stimulation of GP, relaxation of SM
  • Relaxation of IF, contraction of SM
  • Stretch of IF, contraction of SM

Question 81

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Which receptor is connected with addiction?
Answer
  • D2 receptors
  • D3 receptors
  • 5HT2 receptors
  • 5-HT receptors
  • Serotonin receptors

Question 82

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Lesion to what causes past-pointing, drunken and intention tremor?
Answer
  • Cerebellum
  • Thalamus
  • Hypothalamus
  • Precentral gyrus
  • Neocortex

Question 83

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Hyperkinetic disorder symptoms:
Answer
  • Akinesia
  • Ballism
  • Bradykinesia
  • Adiadochokinesia
  • Intention tremor

Question 84

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Plasticity as a symptom include:
Answer
  • Decreased muscle tone
  • Increased muscle tone
  • Abnormal absence of movement
  • Purposeless contractions that produce shaking
  • Resistance to passive stretch

Question 85

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Facilitation as a symptom include:
Answer
  • Decreased muscle tone
  • Increased muscle tone
  • Rapid involuntary eye movements
  • Lack of coordination
  • Disturbance of equilibrium

Question 86

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Increased activity of the SNS causes:
Answer
  • Pupil constriction
  • Bronchiolar dilation
  • Erection
  • Decreased heart rate
  • Ciliary muscle contraction

Question 87

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Presynaptic inhibition in the CNS affects the firing rate of alpha motoneurons by:
Answer
  • Increasing the chloride permeability of the presynaptic nerve ending
  • Decreasing the potassium permeability of the alpha motoneuron
  • Decreasing the frequency of action potentials by the presynaptic nerve ending
  • Increasing (hyperpolarizing) the membrane potential of the alpha motoneuron
  • Increasing the amount of neurotransmitter released by the presynaptic nerve ending

Question 88

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Adrenergic receptors located in the heart are types of:
Answer
  • M2 receptors
  • M3 receptors
  • Beta-1 receptors
  • Alpha-1 receptors
  • Alpha-2 receptors

Question 89

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An aphasia is most likely to be associated with a lesion of:
Answer
  • The hippocampus
  • The parietal lobe
  • The temporal lobe
  • The limbic system
  • The reticular formation

Question 90

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RAS is responsible for the following except:
Answer
  • Pain
  • Visual
  • Olfactory
  • Consciousness
  • Speech

Question 91

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Increased activity of the PNS causes:
Answer
  • Increased heart rate
  • Pupil constriction
  • Bronchiolar dilation
  • Ciliary muscle dilation
  • Increased sweating

Question 92

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Flexor withdrawal reflex is:
Answer
  • Responsible for monosynaptic excitation of ipsilateral homonymous muscle
  • Responsible for polysynaptic excitation of contralateral extensors
  • The same as inverse myotatic reflex
  • Responsible for increase in gamma-motoneuron activity
  • Responsible for disynaptic inhibition of ipsilateral extensors

Question 93

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Autogenic inhibition is related to:
Answer
  • Ia fibers in muscle spindle
  • Ib fibers in golgi tendon
  • Type II (A-beta fibers)
  • Type III (A-delta fibers)
  • C-fibers

Question 94

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Lesion of UMN leads to:
Answer
  • Loss of voluntary activity
  • Increased muscle tone
  • Spinal reflex hyperactivity
  • Babinski sign
  • All correct

Question 95

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Lesion of LMN leads to:
Answer
  • Decreased reflexes
  • Decreased muscle tone
  • No transmission of growth factor
  • Flaccid paralysis
  • All correct

Question 96

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Which pathway is a descending efferent pathway?
Answer
  • Dorsal column medial lemniscal pathway
  • Anterior corticospinal tract
  • Anterior spinothalamic tract
  • Lateral spinothalamic tract
  • Posterior spinocerebellar tract

Question 97

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Free nerve endings contain receptors that encode the sensation of:
Answer
  • Fine touch
  • Vibration
  • Pressure
  • Temperature
  • Muscle length

Question 98

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Which pathway is an ascending afferent pathway?
Answer
  • Lateral spinothalamic tract
  • Lateral corticospinal tract
  • Anterior corticospinal tract
  • Reticulospinal tract
  • Vestibulospinal tract

Question 99

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Which one of the following hypothalamic nuclei is responsible for the detection of the core body temperature?
Answer
  • The lateral hypothalamus
  • The arcuate nucleus
  • The anterior hypothalamus
  • The paraventricular nucleus
  • The posterior nucleus

Question 100

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The sympathetic response in a “fight or flight” reaction causes a decrease in:
Answer
  • The arterial blood pressure
  • The diameter of the pupil
  • The resistance of the airways
  • The heart rate
  • The blood glucose concentration
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