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Chapter 8 Questions Flashcards

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Excitatory neurotransmitter found in distinct regions on the CNS and is involved in cognition, motor, and neuroendocrine functions

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Dopamine

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Primary cholinergic neurotransmitter

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Acetylcholine

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Excitatory neurotransmitter that plays a major role in generating and maintaining mood states

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Norepinephrine

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Neurotransmitter that plays a role in emotions, cognition, sensory perceptions, and essential biologic functions

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Serotonin

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Primary cholinergic neurotransmitter found in greatest concentration in the peripheral nervous system

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Acetylcholine

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Sympathetic response on the lungs

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Relaxation of bronchial muscles

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Parasympathetic response on the lungs

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Bronchoconstruction and secretion from bronchial glands

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What does serotonin play a role in

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Emotions, cognition, sensory perceptions, and essential body functions like sleep and appetite

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Part of the brain that regulates postural balance and positioning

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Cerebellum

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Function of hypothalamus

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Temperature regulation

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Functions as a regulatory structure to relay all sensory information, except smell, sent to the CNS from the PNS

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Thalamus

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Involved in storing information, especially the emotions attached to memories

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Hippocampus

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12
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Where is the Broca’s area

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Frontal lobe

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13
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What controls the motor function of speech

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Broca’s area

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What does the damage to the Broca’s area produce

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Expressive aphasia or difficulty with the motor movements of speech

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Primarily responsible for receptive speech

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Wernicke’s area

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Basic emotions, needs, drives, and instinct begin and are modulated in the ______

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Limbic system

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The ________ are involved with motor functions and association in both learning and the programming of behavior or activities that are repetitive and, done over time, become automatic

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Basal ganglia

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18
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Which neurotransmitter is decreased in those with Parkinson’s disease

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Dopamine

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19
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A decrease in what neurotransmitter has been implicated in seizure disorders

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GABA

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20
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Does the extrapyramidal motor system control memory and vision?

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No

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What is controlled by the extrapyramidal motor system

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Muscle tone, common reflexes, and automatic voluntary motor functioning like waking

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What neuropeptide suppresses pain and modulates mood and stress

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Endorphins

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Primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the CNS

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What is the space where the electrical intercellular signal becomes a chemical extra cellular signal?

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Synaptic cleft

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Which neurotransmitters reduce the membrane potential and enhance the transmission of signal between neurons

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Excitatory neurotransmitters

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Which neurotransmitters slow down never impulses

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Inhibitory neurotransmitters

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Decreased norepinephrine has been associated with ________ and excessive norepinephrine has been associated with _________.

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Decreased- depression

Excessive- manic symptoms

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Arousal is main function also deals with attention

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Reticular formation

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Components of hindbrain

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Medulla, pons, reticular formation, cerebellum

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Components of midbrain

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Mostly tectum

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Components of brain stem

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Cranial nerves

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Components of forebrain

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Limbic system, thalamus, hypothalamus, cerebrum

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Sensory relay system

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What is the Circle of Willis

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Insurance policy. If one pathway gets blocked then blood can find another way around it

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How many cervical spine

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How many thoracic spine

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How many lumbar spine

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How many sacral spine

39
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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there from brain stem to cauda equina

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Where does cauda equina start and stop

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Starts at T12-L1 and goes to coccyx

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Acronym for knowing sensory or motor for cranial nerves

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Some say marry money but my brother says big brains mean more

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Function of Pre central gyrus

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Function of post central gyrus

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All motor neurons synapse in _______

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Gray matter

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Motor pathway

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Efferent

Descending

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Sensory pathway

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Afferent

Ascending

47
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Depolarization is the ______ of _____

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Influx of sodium

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Repolarization is the _______ of ______

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Outflux of potassium

49
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What is NMDA

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Memory drug. Mimics glutamine which is an excitatory drug that enhances creation of memory

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Functions of dopamine pathways

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Reward (motivation), pleasure/euphoria, motor function (fine tuning), compulsion, perseveration

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Functions of serotonin pathway

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Mood, memory processing, sleep, cognition

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What are cortisol, norepinephrine, and epinephrine/adrenaline produced by? What are they involved in regulating?

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Adrenal gland, involved in regulating bodily functions during stressful and emotional states

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Difference in CT and MRI

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CT is X-ray and MRI is magnets

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How is the nervous system organized

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By function

55
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How are neurotransmitters released

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By terminals on axons

56
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Neurons are organized into ________

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Sensorimotor circuits

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