NEUROSCIENCE - Imaging and EEGs

Question 1

Adults who learn a 2nd language will
have 2 language centers showing on
fMRI, but children with 2 languages
have? (2x)

Answer 1

A single language center

Question 2

What is voxel-based analysis? (2x)

Answer 2

Method of analyzing MRI data by
changing individual brain scans into
standard volume, shape, and spatial
orientation to allow for superimposing
patients data onto one another.

Question 3

What information about schizophrenia
is provided by diffusion tensor imaging?
(2x)

Answer 3

Orientation and integrity of white matter tracts

Question 4

Concentration of what metabolite is a marker of neuron structural integrity on MRI?

Answer 4

Choline

Question 5

What imaging technique measures

perfusion and oxygenation in cortical grey matter?

Answer 5

fMRI

Question 6

What imaging is best to examine the
distribution of the brain’s D1 receptors in
children with OCD?

Answer 6

PET Scan

Question 7

Neuronal functioning is detected by
distribution and concentration of which
metabolite in magnetic resonance
spectroscopy?

Answer 7

N-acetyl aspartat

Question 8

What information can EEG scalp electrodes

give about pyramidal cells?

Answer 8

Summation of potentials