Mid Term

Question 1

Flavor

Answer 1

Taste plus touch plus smell

Question 2

Multimodal

Answer 2

When different things act to creat a whole experience of taste

Question 3

Oral-somatosensory

Answer 3

Sensations in mouth that give rise to feeling

Question 4

Gustatory sense

Answer 4

5 different tastes 
Sweet
Salty
Sour
Bitter
Unami(savory)

Question 5

I ripe bananas contain

Answer 5

Serotonin

Question 6

Our brains are at the top of our body because

Answer 6

It’s key purpose is to find food, smell and eat it

Question 7

Our taste system to end result

Answer 7

Mouth
Taste buds (epiglottis, posterior, anterior)
Cranial nerves
Nucleus of solitary tract
Brain stem and oral somatosensory system
Spinal trigeminal nucleus
Thalamus

Question 8

What is more important to taste than our mouths?

Answer 8

Olfactory system

Question 9

Retro nasal olfaction

Answer 9

After chewing molecules are released to the nasopharynx and stimulate receptors on the olfactory epithelium

Question 10

Anosmia

Answer 10

Not being able to smell

Question 11

Thresholds for different tatses

Answer 11

Low for bitter

High for sweet and salty

Question 12

What is the neurotransmitter that carries out a lot of the action basil ganglia

Answer 12

Dopamine

Question 13

Three types of taste papillae

Answer 13

Fungi form (25%)
Circumvallate (50%)
Foliate (25%)

Question 14

Taste papillae order

Answer 14

Fungiform, foliate, circumvallate

Question 15

Tip and back of tongue different tastes

Answer 15

Tip -sweet, Unami, salty

Back - sour and bitter

Question 16

What does lipid soluble mean

Answer 16

Can pass the blood brain barrier

Question 17

What drugs are lipid soluble

Answer 17

Nicotine and caffeine

Question 18

How do we identify super tasters

Answer 18

Number of papilla and if they can taste prop

Question 19

What foods reduce cognitive decline

Answer 19

Fruits and vegetables

Question 20

Acetylcholine

Answer 20

Enables humans to move by stimulating muscles to contract. Affects our fight or flight.

Question 21

Acetylcholine I’m Alzheimer’s

Answer 21

The neurons that project to the hippocampus and cortex slowly die

Question 22

Nicotine and brain functioning

Answer 22

Low doses can increase attention and arousal, high doses or chain smoking can produce sedative effects

Question 23

What happens if you eat cheese, smoke, and drink wine

Answer 23

Fluctuations in blood pressure, nausea, headache, rash, dizziness, vomiting, falling asleep.

Question 24

Bed criteria

Answer 24

Eat more than usual in one sitting
Once a week for three months
Guilt or ashamed of eating episodes

Question 25

Dopamine is related to

Answer 25

Reward

Question 26

Dopamine and obesity

Answer 26

Affects our levels of arousal and craving for food

Question 27

Best times to eat

Answer 27

9-4

Question 28

People with kidney issues shouldn't eat

Answer 28

Star fruit

Question 29

Flavonoids

Answer 29

Create higher levels of blood flow to the brain

Question 30

Chocolate contains

Answer 30

Flavonoids, and contain a weed like neurotransmitter

Question 31

Aluminum

Answer 31

Is bad for people's long term health

Question 32

Ecstasy

Answer 32

Inhibits mitochondria in your body from producing atp. You sweat and become hypothermic

Question 33

Coke

Answer 33

Inhibits sodium-ion channels. Blocks pain, crosses blood brain barriers

Question 34

Emotional pain is similar to

Answer 34

Physical pain

Question 35

People and animals prefer Coke over

Answer 35

Water and food

Question 36

Name synapses on diagram

Answer 36

Look in book