Bio-Neuro

Question 1

Medulla

Answer 1

Very important

Vital signs

Question 2

Pons

Answer 2

Connects halves of cerebellum

RL movement integration

Question 3

Colliculi

Answer 3

Visual superior
Auditory inferior
Routes

Question 4

Substantia Nigria

Answer 4

Motor activity

Reward

Question 5

Reticular formation

RAS

Answer 5

Sleep arousal consciousness

Question 6

Thalamus

Answer 6

Relay station

Question 7

Hypothalamus

Answer 7

Everything

Drives homeostasis emotion

Question 8

Basal ganglia

Answer 8

Voluntary movements reflexes facial recognition planning and organizing

Question 9

Amygdala

Answer 9

Emotion and emotional memory

Question 10

Hippocampus

Answer 10

Learning and memory

Question 11

Cingulate cortex

Answer 11

Pain signals

Question 12

Acetylcholine

Answer 12

Muscannic and nicotinic receptors

Nervous system and memory

Question 13

Acetylcholine disorders

Answer 13

Alzheimer’s

Myasthenia Gravis

Question 14

Dopamine

Answer 14

Personality mood memory sleep movement

Question 15

Dopamine disorders

Answer 15

Schizophrenia
Tourette’s
Parkinson’s

Question 16

Norepinephrine

Answer 16

Mood attention dreams learning depression

Question 17

Serotonin

Answer 17

Mood hungry temperature sex sleep aggression

Question 18

GABA

Answer 18

Inhibitory

Eating sleep motor control

Question 19

GABA disorders

Answer 19

Anxiety
Huntington’s
Seizures

Question 20

GABA medication

Answer 20

Benzos neurotransmitter

Question 21

Glutimate

Answer 21

Excitatory

Long term memory exotoxicity

Question 22

Glutimate (exotoxicity) disorders

Answer 22

Seizures stroke Huntington’s Alzheimer’s

Question 23

Endorphins

Answer 23

Inhibitory neuromusculator

Analgesic pleasure

Question 24

Huntingtons etiology

Answer 24

decreased GABA, increased glutamate in basal ganglia

Question 25

Huntingtons symptoms

Answer 25

1. emotional cognitive 2. motor (fidget, klutz) 3. chorea.- jerky involuntary movements 4. degenerative (ends with athetosis- slowed movements and dementia)

Question 26

Parkinsons etiology

Answer 26

decreased dopamine in the substantia nigra (thalamus and frontal lobe too)

Question 27

Parkinsons symptoms

Answer 27

tremors, rigidity, akathisia (restlessness), slowed speech and movement (akinesia), depression

Question 28

multiple sclerosis (MS) etiology

Answer 28

progressive degeneration of myelin

Question 29

MS symptoms

Answer 29

autoimmune; relapsing-remitting type evolves into secondary progressive type; tremors, speech, swallowing, hearing, mood, it all goes

Question 30

Alzheimers NT

Answer 30

acetylcholine

Question 31

Alzheimers stages

Answer 31

steady and progressive decline in memory and 1+ other cognitive area. 1. anterograde/declarative memory 2. retrograde amnesia 3. severe deterioration of memory and functioning

Question 32

brain damage to dorsolateral PFC

Answer 32

dysexecutive syndrome (DUH) = simple minded, apathetic, impaired judgement, planning, insight, and organization

Question 33

brain damage to orbitofrontal pfc

Answer 33

disinhibition syndrome= pseudopsychopathy, inappropriate behavior (ORBIT around ME)

Question 34

damage to mediofrontal PFC

Answer 34

apathetic syndrome (MEH)= pseudodepression

Question 35

damage to Broca’s area PFC

Answer 35

Broca’s aphasia (BUH, BUH, BROKEN, non-fluent)- can’t produce speech, frustrated

Question 36

Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 36

fluent aphasia (WHAT), can’t understand language, produce language but it doesn’t make sense

Question 37

damage to parietal cortex

Answer 37

somatosensory cortex, all the “ias”, apraxia, agnosia, etc.