Cognitive Neuroscience

Question 1

What neurotransmitter is used for memory?

Answer 1

Acetylcholine

Question 2

What neurotransmitter if damaged will cause Alzheimer’s?

Answer 2

Acetylcholine

Question 3

What neurotransmitter is responsible for feelings of reward and feeling “high”?

Answer 3

Dopamine

Question 4

Too much dopamine will cause?

Answer 4

Schizophrenia

Question 5

Too little dopamine will cause?

Answer 5

Parkinsons

Question 6

What drugs will damage dopamine?

Answer 6

Cocaine and emphetamines

Question 7

What neurotransmitter is linked to depression?

Answer 7

Serotonin

Question 8

Lack of what neurotransmitter will result in seizures?

Answer 8

GABA

Question 9

Epilepsy medication promotes what neurotransmitter?

Answer 9

GABA

Question 10

What is the excitatory neurotransmitter of the cortex?

Answer 10

Glutamate

Question 11

What neurotransmitter helps with perception, memory, attention and calculations in the cortex?

Answer 11

Glutamate

Question 12

What is the master gland of the endocrine system?

Answer 12

pituitary gland

Question 13

What regulates hormones, metabolism, growth, sexual functioning, thirst, water retention and storage?

Answer 13

pituitary gland

Question 14

What sits on top on top of the pituitary gland?

Answer 14

Hypothalamus

Question 15

What part of the brain regulates temperature, eating, sleeping and the endocrine system?

Answer 15

Hypothalamus

Question 16

What part of the brain influences anger, aggression and fear?

Answer 16

Amygdala

Question 17

What relays information between the two cerebral hemispheres?

Answer 17

Corpus Collosum

Question 18

What part of the brain controls thinking, sensing function and voluntary movement?

Answer 18

Cerebral cortex

Question 19

What part of the limbic system influences anger and fear?

Answer 19

Septum

Question 20

What part of the limbic system influences learning, memory and cognitive and emotional processes?

Answer 20

hippocampus

Question 21

What relays sensory information to the cerebral cortex?

Answer 21

Thalamus

Question 22

Where can you find the reticular activating system?

Answer 22

midbrain

Question 23

What part of the brain carries messages about sleep and arousal?

Answer 23

midbrain

Question 24

What part relays information between the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum?

Answer 24

Pons

Question 25

What controls heartbeat, breathing and blood pressure?

Answer 25

Medulla

Question 26

What relays nerve impulses between brain and body and controls simple reflexes?

Answer 26

spinal chord

Question 27

What is known as collections of neurons crucial to motor function?

Answer 27

Basal Ganglia

Question 28

What is the limbic system important for?

Answer 28

Emotion, motivation, memory and learning

Question 29

Stimulation of the amygdala will result in?

Answer 29

fear

Question 30

Persons with autism will display limited activation in the>?

Answer 30

Amygdala

Question 31

Damage or removal of the hippocampus will result in?

Answer 31

inability to form new memories

Question 32

What part of the brain relays incoming sensory information through groups of neurons that project to the appropriate region in the cortex?

Answer 32

THALAMUS

Question 33

People with schizophrenia are found to have abnormal changes in the ?

Answer 33

thalamus

Question 34

Dysfunction and neural loss within the hypothalamus are noted in cases of?

Answer 34

narcolepsy

Question 35

What are the different ways to assess brain activity?

Answer 35

EEG, ERP, MRI, fMRI, PET

Question 36

The forebrain is responsible for?

Answer 36

cognition and motivation (primates and humans)

Question 37

The midbrain is responsible for?

Answer 37

Sensory processes and arousal ( mamma/reptiles)

Question 38

The hind brain is responsible for?

Answer 38

heart/lung and coordination (fish)

Question 39

What part of the brain is most important for cognitive functioning?

Answer 39

forebrain

Question 40

The cerebral cortex, limbic system, basal ganglia, thalamus and hypothalamus make up the?

Answer 40

forebrain

Question 41

What hemisphere is responsible for visual-spatial holistic processing?

Answer 41

right hemisphere

Question 42

What hemisphere is responsible for language, linear and serial processing?

Answer 42

left hemisphere

Question 43

What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex?

Answer 43

Parietal, Occipital, temporal and frontal

Question 44

What is the frontal lobe responsible for?

Answer 44

motor processing and higher order thought processes

Question 45

What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

Answer 45

somatosensory processing

Question 46

What is the temporal lobe responsible for?

Answer 46

auditory processing

Question 47

What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

Answer 47

visual processing

Question 48

This particular neurotransmitter is important for regulating impulsivity and is associated with eating behaviour, and aggressive behaviour:

Answer 48

serotonin

Question 49

Identify three types of chemical substance that are involved in neurotransmission?

Answer 49

monoamine neurotransmitters, amino-acid neurotransmitters, neuropeptides