WorksheetsSemester Review
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
All neurons can fire action potentials
True
False
Which neuron is NOT an inhibitory neuron.
Purkinje neuron
Medium spiny neuron
Pyramidal neuron
Which is not one of the three major parts of the brain
Cerebrum
corpus callosum
Cerebellum
brainstem
Your brain contains how many miles of blood vessels
4
40
400
4000
What type of synapse is this?
Electrical
Chemical
Ribbon
Only neurons can fire action potentials
True
False
Who coined the term synapse?
Santiago Ramon Cajal
Timothy Bliss
Charles Sherrington
Camillo Golgi
The neurotransmitter glutamate is always excitatory
True
False
How wide is the synaptic cleft of a chemical synapse?
20 - 40 m
20 -40 mm
20 - 40 nm
20 - 40 cm
Which sensory system is the slowest
Somatosensory
Auditory
Visual
Nociceptive
Where do you find vesicular transport proteins?
Cell body
Presynaptic nerve terminal
Postsynaptic nerve terminal
Mitochondria
What toxin found in puffer fish blocks action potentials?
Tetrodotoxin
Tetanus Toxin
Conotoxin
Bungarotoxin
What does this structure allow you to do?
Taste
See
Hear
Smell
Nociceptors block the feeling of pain
True
False
This American physician specialized in prefrontal lobotomy
Walter Mondale
Walter Jackson
Walter Payton
Walter Reed
This American physician was able to map the cortical areas related to speech
Wilder Penfield
Edgar Moniz
Korbinian Brodmann
Pierre Paul Broca
Smell has a strong connection to memory because of its direct connection to this structure
cerebellum
striatum
thalamus
hippocampus
Loss of this type of neuron in the brainstem is responsible for Parkinson's Disease
Pyramidal Neuron
Medium Spiny Neuron
Dopamine Neuron
Striatal Neuron
True or false, loss of smell is known as anosmia
True
False
Which of following structures is required for memory?
Striatum
Hippocampus
Thalamus
Habenula
Can you become addicted from a single bout of drug use?
True
False
Which of the following is a neurobiological reason for why people relapse?
Too much dopamine
Long-term plasticity
Short-term plasticity
Receptor desensitization
Which neuromodulator is most likely responsible for strengthening fear related memories associated with PTSD?
Norepinephrine
Dopamine
Serotonin
Histomine
True or False, we only use 10% of our brain.
True
False
Which are of the brain controls your decisions?
Hippocampus
Cerebellum
Hypothalamus
Prefrontal Cortex
Which area of the brain degenerates in Huntington's Disease?
Thalamus
Substantia Nigra
Striatum
Amygdala
How many cells are within the human brain?
1 Billion
46 Billion
86 Billion
100 Billion
This is a side effect of long term use of antipsychotics.
Tourette syndrome
Tardive dyskinesia
Hemiballismus
Chorea
True or False, Schwann cells reside in the brain.
True
False
The resting membrane potential of a neuron is driven mostly by what ion?
Sodium
Potassium
Chloride
Calcium
Relapse is most strongly associated with ...
associative conditioning
associative learning
dissociative conditioning
dissociative learning
What type of instrument did Walter Freeman use to perform a frontal lobotomy?
Tooth pick
Pickaxe
Ice pick
Pick hammer
The flow of which ion is responsible for the depolarizing phase of the action potential?
Calcium
Potassium
Magnesium
Sodium
The flow of which ion is responsible for the repolarizing phase of the action potential?
Calcium
Potassium
Magnesium
Sodium
Walter Freeman, the "father" of the ice pick lobotomy received his medical degree from which university?
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Massachusetts
Yale University
Bonus Question: How many stitches are on a baseball?
212
302
108
88
