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1
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What is CN#5?

A

Trigeminal

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2
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Glia Cells

A

Support the neurons

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3
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What NT mostly controls muscular movements at the neuromuscular junction?

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ACh

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4
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Where is the primary motor cortex?

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Pre-Central Gyrus

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5
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What photoreceptor is used to see colors?

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Cones

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6
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What part of a neuron sends the signal?

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Axon

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7
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What 1/2 of the brain controls the left side of the body?

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Right

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8
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What NT is mostly implicated in depression?

A

5-HT

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9
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Where is the primary sensory cortex?

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Post-central gyrus

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10
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What type of photoreceptor is most prevalent in fovea?

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Cones

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11
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Depletion of cells in this DA producing structure is implicated in being primary cause of Parkinson’s disease?

A

Substantia Nigra

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12
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These drugs are typically used to treat anxiety disorders?

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Benzos

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13
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What is the average age of onset for SZ?

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19.2 years

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14
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What is the main nucleus in the amygdala that sends out all the information?

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Central

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15
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This term is used to describe an external stimulus that resets your biological clock?

A

Zeitgeber

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16
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Name the structures in the visual pathways from the retina to the occipital cortex, naming 3 neurons in the retina, the nucleus in the thalamus, and the name of the primary visual cortex?

A
  • Rods, cones –>
  • Bipolar Cells
  • Ganglion Cells
  • LGN
  • V1
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17
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Where are graded potentials found in a neuron?

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Dendrite (where have EPSPs and IPSPs)

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18
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What’s another name for the cell body of a neuron?

A

Soma

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19
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What sense does not 1st go to the thalamus?

A

Smell

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20
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What NT is involved in movement in striatum?

A

DA

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21
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How many ventricles are there in the brain?

A

4

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22
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What type of ganglion cells do the cones feed into?

A

Parvocellular Cells (NOT magno)

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23
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What hemisphere is most often specialized for language?

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Left

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24
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What nucleus in the thalamus relays visual information?

A

LGN

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25
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Name an excitatory AA NT?

A

Glutamate

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26
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What are the ventricles in brain filled with?

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CSF

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27
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What layers of the LGN receive parvocellular input?

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3, 4, 5, 6

28
Q

Name 2 of the major areas of limbic system

A

Amygdala, hippocampus, cingulate gyrus, septal nuclei, mamillary bodies, entorhinal cortex, fornix

29
Q

This treatment is effective in treating depression

30
Q

What is the seasonal hypothesis of SZ?

A

SZs most often born in spring

31
Q

The cortical columns in V1 are referred to by this term?

A

Ocular dominance columns

32
Q

What is the precursor to all catecholamines?

A

L-Tyrosine

33
Q

Modern drugs that treat SZ are atypical antipsychotics. Name 2 ways in which they are atypical

A

Block D4 receptors (not D2), increase DA activity in PFC

34
Q

What structure connects 2 halves of brain?

35
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What nucleus in the thalamus relays hearing information?

36
Q

Name an inhibitory AA NT?

A

Glycine, GABA

37
Q

What structure in the brain makes CSF?

A

Choiroid Plexus

38
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Parvocellular input makes up most of what visual pathway?

A

Ventral stream

39
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What is another name for primary visual cortex?

A

Striate Cortex

40
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Where is primary auditory cortex?

A

Temporal lobe

41
Q

What does the basal ganglia do?

42
Q

Name 1 difference b/w NTs and hormones

A

NTs go small distance, hormones go longer distance

43
Q

This brain slice exposes the entire CC from the anterior end to the posterior end?

44
Q

These nuclei in the midbrain are a main source of 5-HT in the brain?

A

Raphe Nuclei

45
Q

What is the specific classification of the drugs zoloft, prozac and paxil?

46
Q

Give examples of positive and negative symptoms found in SZ?

A

Positive

  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions

Negative

  • Flat affect
  • Anhedonia
  • Social Withdrawal
47
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Of synchrony or desynchrony, what is the characteristic EEG pattern during wakefulness?

A

Desynchrony

(They’re synchronized in SWS)

48
Q

What does Ca do when it comes in the presynaptic terminal and releases NTs from vessicles?

49
Q

Drugs that act as hallucinogens (e.g., LSD, MDMA) primarily act on what receptors?

50
Q

Name the sulcus that separates the brain medially?

A

Central sulcus

51
Q

Name a center in the brain important for language?

A

Broca

Wernicke’s

52
Q

What does limbic system do?

53
Q

Name the CNs involved in vision

A
  • Optic
  • Oculormotor
  • Abducens
  • Trochlear
54
Q

Name the color that best describes the tissue making up the outermost layers of the cortex

55
Q

This syndrome which follows bilateral temporal lobe removal is identifiable by hypersexuality and psychic blindness?

A

Kluven-Bucy

56
Q

SZ is most often treated with this class of drugs?

A

DA antagonists

57
Q

Name neuronal cell type found in the cerebellum

58
Q

Name the fissure that separates the 2 halves lengthwise?

A

Longitudinal Fissure

59
Q

Where do the optic nerves cross?

A

Optic Chiasm

60
Q

Name the fissure in the brain surrounded by V1

A

Calcarine Fissure

61
Q

Name a pleasure center in the brain

A

NaC, Septal Nuclei

62
Q

What lobe of the brain is used primarily for vision?

A

Occipital Lobe

63
Q

Where do the motor axons cross?

64
Q

Who has bigger brains on average, men or women?

65
Q

What is the law of Bell/Majendie

A

States that the upper 1/2 of spinal cord has information going to the brain and the lower 1/2 has information coming from the brain

66
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Sham rage results from this surgical procedure when performed on cats?

A

Removal of cortex

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