Behavioral Neuroscience Review Exam 1

Question 1

eyes are on the ___ part of head

Answer 1

rostral/anterior

Question 2

drug that blocks ligand binding to receptor

Answer 2

antagonist

Question 3

dendrites that reach above the soma

Answer 3

apical

Question 4

two things related to neurotransmitter levels that may cause a seizure

Answer 4

too much glutamate
too little GABA

Question 5

part of spinal cord that may be damaged if i can feel pain in both legs, but only move my left leg

Answer 5

right ventral root horn/nerve

Question 6

energy source for sodium-potassium pump

Answer 6

ATP

Question 7

differences between IPSPs and EPSPs

Answer 7

excitatory- cations, depolarizing
inhibitory- anions, hyperpolarizing

Question 8

-70mV

Answer 8

resting membrane potential

Question 9

neurons in C.elegans nervous system

Answer 9

302 neurons

Question 10

two brain regions that make dopamine

Answer 10

ventral tegmental area
substantia nigra

Question 11

needed to activate an AMPA receptor

Answer 11

glutamate

Question 12

two components of folds in the cerebral cortex

Answer 12

sulci and gyrus

Question 13

faster form of action potential propagation

Answer 13

passive propagation

Question 14

role of norepinephrine in PNS

Answer 14

sympathetic nervous system
fight or flight

Question 15

subtype of neuron that processes sensory information

Answer 15

interneuron

Question 16

lobe that contains primary somatosensory cortex

Answer 16

parietal lobe

Question 17

-40mV to -55mV

Answer 17

threshold potential

Question 18

muscle weakness caused by what toxin

Answer 18

exocytosis/vesicle fusion

Question 19

two cells that secrete myelin

Answer 19

Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes

Question 20

nervous system responsible for vision (not vision)

Answer 20

somatic nervous system

Question 21

part of action potential when voltage-gated potassium channels are open

Answer 21

repolarization period/hyperpolarization

Question 22

PSPs from different dendrites processed by what body

Answer 22

integration

Question 23

conduction zone of a neuron

Answer 23

axon

Question 24

proteins that bring the vesicle closer to the membrane

Answer 24

SNARE proteins

Question 25

3 ionotropic glutamate receptors

Answer 25

AMPA, NMDA, kainate