Exam 1

Question 1

Case 1

Answer 1

Trey
5 year old boy who jumped up crying and ran to his mom
alert at first but then became lethargic
neuroimaging was done
died 8 hours later

Question 2

who thought the heart was the seat of mental capacities;
the brain’s job was to cool the blood

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

Brain at a circuit level

Answer 3

Local Neural Circuit
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Question 4

Brain at a cellular level

Answer 4

singular neuron

Question 5

Molecular Level

Answer 5

Membrane Receptor

Question 6

Organ Level

Answer 6

Brain, Spinal Cord, Peripheral Nerves, and eyes

Question 7

Neural System Level

Answer 7

Eyes and visual brain regions

Question 8

Brain region Level

Answer 8

Eyes and visual brain regions

Question 9

Circuit Level

Answer 9

Local Neural Circuit

Question 10

Aristotle’s contribution to the brain

Answer 10

thought the heart was the seat of mental capacities;
the brain’s job was to cool the blood

Question 11

Hippocrates’s contribution to the brain

Answer 11

the brain was the seat of emotion

Question 12

Galen’s contribution to the brain

Answer 12

Behavioral changes in brain-injured gladiators

Question 13

What happened in 400 BCE

Answer 13

euphoriant affect on poppy reported in sumeria

Question 14

2700 BCE

Answer 14

Shen Nung Originates Acupunture

Question 15

1700 bce

Answer 15

SMITH SURGICal papyrus, first writing about the nervous system

Question 16

177

Answer 16

Galen lectures on the brain

Question 17

1000

Answer 17

Al-Zahrawi describes surgical treatments for neurological disorders

Question 18

1402

Answer 18

St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital is used exclusively for the mentally ill

Question 19

Old Phrenology

Answer 19

In the 19th century phrenology assigned seperate functions to cortical areas
bumps overlied brain regions that matched to the brain behaviors/skills/personality

Question 20

What is the sacred disease called

Answer 20

Epilepsy

Question 21

Case 2

Answer 21

14 year old girl, had a seizure
could not move her left arm or see to her left
short and thin; hard of hearing
Came back to the ER Unable to move her left arm, and hearing was worse

Question 22

Neuron Doctrine

Answer 22

Composed of independent cells
Signals transmitted across synapses

Question 23

Who made the neuron doctrine

Answer 23

Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Used Golgi’s cell stain method to see neurons
Camilio Golgi was his enemy
Gained a noble prize in 1906

Question 24

3 kinds of neurons

Answer 24

Unipolar, multiipolar, and bipolar

Question 25

unipolar

Answer 25

a single extension branches into two
directions, forming a receptive pole and an output zone

Question 26

Bipolar

Answer 26

one axon, one dendrite - usually
sensory

Question 27

Multipolar

Answer 27

one axon, many dendrites – most
common type