Neuroscience

Question 1

Most concentrated ion in cell

Answer 1

K+

Question 2

Glutamate

Answer 2

+ NT

Question 3

What cells in the retina use glutamate?

Answer 3

PR, bipolar, ganglion.

Question 4

FEF

Answer 4

Saccades and contralateral. ie. saccade to right from left FEF

Question 5

Pursuits

Answer 5

Ipsilateral and parental lobe.

Question 6

Function of the frontal lobe

Answer 6

personality, planning, production of speech (Aphasia. Broca’s area-production of speech). Also motors execution.

Question 7

Parietal Lobe

Answer 7

Sensory and recognition. Pursuits. Ipsilateral. i.e. could tell you a pen is used for writing but couldn’t tell you what it is called.

Question 8

Temporal Lobe

Answer 8

Temporary House Worker. Hippocampus-short term memory and smells to memory. Wernicke’s-wordy speech.

Question 9

Preganglianic PS in eyes

Answer 9

Edinger westfault

Question 10

Post gangliari PS in eye

Answer 10

Ciliary ganglian.

Question 11

Medulla

Answer 11

Many crossings here. Many autonomic functions.

Question 12

INO Detection

Answer 12

Eye in nystagmus in gaze is normal eye and there would be contralateral lesion of MLF. One eye cannot adduct. Common in MS.

Question 13

Where is MLF ?

Answer 13

Medulla.

Question 14

Where is the SC?

Answer 14

Midbrain

Question 15

Hypothalmus

Answer 15

Think about a car. The sunroof=circardian. The gas=hunger. The radiator=temperature.

Question 16

Where is EW nucleus

Answer 16

Midbrain

Question 17

Diencephalon

Answer 17

Outgrowth of eye. All of the thalamus.

Question 18

Branches of Aorta

Answer 18

ABC’S. Brachiocephalic trunk (suplies right side), Left common carotid, subclavian.

Question 19

Internal carotid artery is a branch of the

Answer 19

Brachiocephalic

Question 20

Branches of the ICA

Answer 20

OPAM. Ophthalmic, posterior communicating, Anterior cerebral, Middle Cerebral.

Question 21

Vertebral Arteries form

Answer 21

Basilar arteries that then connect to Posterior cerebral arteries then to Posterior communicating artery.

Question 22

Pallor nerve that is excavated

Answer 22

Think glaucoma

Question 23

Pallor nerve that is pallid

Answer 23

Think Primary or secondary

Question 24

Primary Pallor nerve with pallid?

Answer 24

No outside source. Toxic, hereditary, trauma, ortho=dead cell bodies, vs. retro=dead axons.

Question 25

Unilateral edematous ON

Answer 25

Between chasm and nerve. Vascular-DM and CRVO. Ischemic-AION, NION, Compressive-thyroid, Inflame-sarcoid, TB, syphilis, lupus.

Question 26

Bilateral edematous ON

Answer 26

Behind chasm. Inflammatory-sarcoid, TB, shypilis, lupus. Papilledema, HTN, IIH.

Question 27

What drugs cause IIH

Answer 27

CANT. Contraceptives, acutane, Naladixic acid, Tetracycline.