Lecture 1

Question 1

Trepanation

Answer 1

A surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled into the skull to treat health problems related to inter-cranial disease.

Question 2

The brain is a network of ___ and ____.

Answer 2

Neurons and Glia

Question 3

Aphasia

Answer 3

Partial or complete loss of language abilities.

Question 4

Broca’s Aphasia

Answer 4

Individual is unable to produce words.

Question 5

Wernicke’s Aphasia

Answer 5

Individual can produce words, but these words make no logical sense.

Question 6

Localization of function

Answer 6

Different parts of the brain are used for different functions.

Question 7

Broca’s area is located in the ___ lobe.

Answer 7

Frontal

Question 8

Wernicke’s area is located in the ___ lobe.

Answer 8

Temporal

Question 9

Stroke

Answer 9

A rapid loss of brain function due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.

Question 10

Ischemic Stroke

Answer 10

Due to a blockage in cerebral blood supply

Question 11

Hemorrhagic stroke

Answer 11

due to a blow-out in cerebral blood supply

Question 12

Camillo Golgi

Answer 12

Developed the reticular theory in neuroscience (brain is continuous in function). Won nobel prize in 1906.

Question 13

Santiago Ramon Cajal

Answer 13

Developed the neuron doctrine which opposed the reticular theory. Won nobel prize in 1906.

Question 14

Neurons differ in these three things

Answer 14

Morphology, gene expression, function

Question 15

Neuroglia

Answer 15

3x more glia than neurons. The two major types of glia are microglia and macroglia.

Question 16

Microglia

Answer 16

function as specialized macrophages.

Question 17

Macroglia

Answer 17

Astrocytes (chemical environment regulation). Oligodendrocytes which help produce myelin. Schwann cells (myelin). Radial glia.

Question 18

Afferent neurons

Answer 18

take signals received by the body and transmit them to the CNS.

Question 19

Efferent neurons

Answer 19

send outgoing messages from the CNS to the body.