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1
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What is the nervous system that is covered by meninges? 1. What are the structures that make up this system? 2

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  1. Central nervous system

2. brain, spinal cord, and optic nerve

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What is the general term for cells of the nervous system?

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glial cells

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What are the locations of the choroid plexus that consists of ependymal cells?

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  1. Lateral ventricles
  2. Third ventricle
  3. Fourth ventricle
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How many layers of gray matter are there? 1. Which layer is closest to the skull? 2. Which layer is involved in afferent info? 3. Efferent info? 4

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  1. 6 layers
  2. layer I
  3. layer IV
  4. layer V
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5
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Around what age do men fully develop their frontal lobe? 1.

Women? 2

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  1. 23-24

2. 18-20

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6
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What area of the brain is associated with emotions?

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limbic

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What cortices fall under the umbrella of association cortices?

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  1. parieto-occipitotemporal cortex

2. prefrontal cortex

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What is a pathology to somatosensory cortex that results in no sensation?

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anaesthesia

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What is a pathology to somatosensory cortex that results in reduced sensation?

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paresthesia

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What is a pathology to somatosensory cortex that results from amputation where brain still thinks the limb is attached?

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phantom limb

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11
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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

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31

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Which projection of the spinal nerve is responsible for afferent info? 1. Efferent? 2

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  1. Dorsal Root Ganglia

2. Ventral Roots

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What is the resting membrane potential of most cells?

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-71.6 mV

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What is the equation used to find the resting membrane potential?

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Hodgkin-Huxley

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15
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How many K+ channels are there for every 1.5 Na+ channel generally?

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10

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What is defined as the amount of change that will develop across a membrane when there is no net movement of ion?

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Nernst Potential

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What is the Nernst Potential equation?

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(RT)/(zF) x log ([iono]/[ioni])

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18
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What is the equilibrium potential for K+?

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-91.6 mV

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19
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What is the equilibrium potential for Na+?

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+62 mV

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If a diabetic takes too much insulin will the cell be hyperpolarized or depolarized?

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hyperpolarized

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21
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What is the equilibrium potential for Ca+2?

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+133.3 mV

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22
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What is it called when a series of impulses from one excitatory fiber together produce a suprathreshold depolarization to trigger an AP?

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Temporal Excitatory Summation

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23
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What is it called when two excitatory fibers cause two synaptic depolarizations that together reach firing threshold and trigger an AP?

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Spatial Excitatory Summation

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What is it called when impulses from an excitatory neuron reach a motor neuron but impulses from an inhibitory fiber prevents depolarization from reaching threshold?

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Cancellation

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25
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What is necessary for saltatory propagation?

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myelinated cells

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26
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For myelinated neurons, what are areas that are not myelinated called?

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Nodes of Ranvier

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27
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What is it called when a neuron cannot get another AP?

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absolute refractory period

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28
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What is it called when a neuron can get a weak AP if stimulus is strong enough?

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relative refractory period

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29
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What are the three states that Na+ voltage-gated channels can be in (and what are the membrane potentials for each)?

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  1. closed but able to open (-70 mV)
  2. open/activated (-50 to +30 mV)
  3. inactivated/closed but not able to open (+30 to -70 mV)
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30
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What are the ways to alter APs?

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  1. change resting membrane potentials
  2. inhibit Na+ v-g channels
  3. demyelinate
31
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What are examples of demyelinating diseases?

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  1. multiple sclerosis

2. Gullain Barre

32
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Are chemical or electrical synapses more common?

33
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What is it called when the membrane potential in the second cell can be the same as the first?

34
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Which are faster: chemical or electrical synapses?

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electrical

35
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Which have a loss of gain: chemical or electrical synapses?

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electrical

36
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What enhance fusion of synaptic vesicles to membranes?

37
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What are methods to decrease chemical synapse transmission?

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  1. Inhibit presynaptic depolarization
  2. Inhibit SNAREs
  3. Receptor antagonist
38
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What are methods to increase chemical synapse transmission?

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  1. Stimulate presynaptic depolarization
  2. Receptor agonist
  3. Decrease removal of NT
39
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Which degradation protein is found on the mitochondria?

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MAO (monoamine oxidase)

40
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What is the term for the sensation that is being experienced?

41
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What are the ways to measure duration of sensation?

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tonic receptors and phasic receptors

42
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What are the slow adapting receptors that last the duration of the stimulus?

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Tonic receptors

43
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What are the fast adapting receptors that are only active at the beginning and end of a stimulus?

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Phasic receptors

44
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What is the type of electrotonic potential you get with a sensory receptor?

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generator potential

45
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What is the intensity of a stimulus determined by?

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  1. sensory coding

2. population coding

46
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What is it called when an activated field inhibits surrounding fields?

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lateral inhibition

47
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What is two point discrimination based on?

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  1. size of receptive field

2. amount of neuron coverage

48
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What is pain that is visceral and referred to elsewhere on the body (eg heart attack)

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Referred pain

49
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What is the pain that is a slightly painful stimulus but experience extreme pain?

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Hyperalgesia

50
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What is the pain from innocuous stimulus so experience pain but not painful stimulus?

51
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What are the types of neuralgial pain?

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  1. trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux)
  2. diabetic neuropathy
  3. postherpetic neuralgia
52
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Where is trigeminal neuralgia the worst? 1. What disease are these people 60x more likely to get? 2

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  1. mandibular

2. Multiple sclerosis

53
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What is a neuralgial rash on the nose that is from nasociliary branch V associated with and what is this rash called?

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  1. Postherpetic neuralgia

2. Hutchinson sign

54
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What membrane separates the middle ear from the external ear?

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tympanic membrane

55
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The middle ear boundaries are from the 1 to the 2

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  1. tympanic membrane

2. oval and round window

56
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What structures/materials are inside the inner ear?

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Organ of Corti and Endolymph

57
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What causes hair cell depolarization?

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Basal membrane vibration

58
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What are the three systems that contribute to equilibrium?

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  1. proprioception
  2. visual system
  3. vestibular apparatus
59
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What is the term for lots of muscle tone?

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Hypertonia

60
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What is the term for larger than normal reflexes? 1. No reflexes? 2

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  1. Hyperreflexia

2. Areflexia

61
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What is the pathogenesis of tetanus?

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Block GABA from neurons that control corticospinal tract

62
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What is a demyelinating disease only affecting Schwann cells?

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Gullain Barre

63
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What are three names for lower than normal movement?

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  1. hypokinetic
  2. bradykinesia
  3. akinesia
64
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What is the name for more movement than normal (too much movement)?

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Hyperkinesia

65
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What is the part of the brain responsible for adjustment motor programs on-line with the aid of proprioceptive feedback and the storage of complex motor memories?

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cerebellum

66
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What are the two names for the area of the cerebellum that maintains equilibrium during movement and controls eye movement?

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  1. flocconodular node

2. vestibulocerebellum

67
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Where does info to the cerebellum decussate?

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Does not decussate

68
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What are the two hemispheres in the cerebellum separated by?

69
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What are the two names of area of the cerebellum responsible for motor memory storage and quality control?

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Spinocerebellum and cerebrocerebellum

70
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What is the term for the ability to judge distance?

71
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What is the term for difficulty with speech when the cerebellum is injured?

72
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What is the term for difficulty making repetitive movements?

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dysdiochokinesia

73
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What is the term for a slow pursuit then ciccade of the eyes?

74
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What postsynaptic potentials are most likely to synapse on the soma of the neuron? 1. Synapse on the dendrite? 2

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  1. inhibitory (IPSP)

2. excitatory (EPSP)

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