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Question 0

What is volume (amplitude) measure in?

Answer 0

Decibel

Question 1

What is pitch (frequency) measure in?

Answer 1

Hertz

Question 2

What is neurotransmission dependant on?

Answer 2

Transmitter synthesis
Vesicle fusion
Occupation of post synaptic receptors

Question 3

What is neurotransmission modulated by?

Answer 3

Transmitter re-uptake

Occupation of presynaptic receptors

Question 4

What are the two main peripheral neurotransmitters?

Answer 4

Acetylcholine (somatic and parasympathetic)

Noradrenaline (sympathetic)

Question 5

What are the two MAJOR neurotransmitters in the CNS and ar they inhibitory or excitatory?

Answer 5

Excitatory- glutamate

Inhibitory- GABA and glycine

Question 6

What are the four main modulatory neurotransmitters in the CNS.

Answer 6

Dopamine
Serotonin
Noradrenaline
Acetylcholine

Question 7

What is dopamine important in?

Answer 7

Cognition

Excess leads to schizophrenia

Question 8

What is acetylcholine important in?

Answer 8

Cognition and memory

Deficiency may lead to Alzheimer’s

Question 9

Serotonin and noradrenaline are important in……

Answer 9

Mood

Deficiency leads to depression

Question 10

Where are pyramidal cells found?

Answer 10

Cerebrum

Question 11

Where are purkinje cells found?

Answer 11

Cerebellum

Question 12

What are the three main spinal tracts?

Answer 12

Dorsal column
Spinothalamic
Coticospinal (motor)

Question 13

Describe the dorsal column tract?

What’s it for and what is it split into?

Answer 13

For proprioception
Gracile (medial-lower body)
Cunate (lateral-upper body)
First neurone enters dorsally
Synapse at medulla then deccusates
Synapse at hypothalamus
3rd neurone travels to sensory cortex

Question 14

Describe the spinothalamic tract

What is it for?

Answer 14

Pain and temp
Neurone enters dorsally 
Synapse in spinal cord then decussates
2nd synapse at thalamus
Third neurone goes to sensory cortex

Question 15

Describe the corticospinal tract

Answer 15

1st motor neurone from motor cortex
Decussates at lower medulla
Synapses at anterior horn
Exits spinal cord travels to target muscle

Question 16

What is the function of the occulomotor cranial nerve?

Answer 16

Eye movement

Iris and lense

Question 17

What is the function of the trochlear cranial nerve?

Answer 17

Eye movement upwards

Question 18

What is the function of the abducens nerve?

Answer 18

Abductors of eye

Lateral movement

Question 19

What is the function of the vestibulocochlear nerve?

Answer 19

Hearing and balance

Question 20

What is the function of the glossopharyngeal nerve?

Answer 20

Swallowing
Glands
Taste
Cardiovascular

Question 21

What are commissar all fibres?

Answer 21

They join the two hemispheres

Most are gathered in the corpus callosum

Question 22

What are association fibres?

Answer 22

They are confined to their own hemispheres

They connect diff parts of the cortex

Question 23

What are projection fibres?

Answer 23

They connect the brain stem with the spinal cord

Question 24

How do the lateral ventricles communicate with the 3rd ventricle?

Answer 24

Via the intraventricular foramina

Question 25

How does the 3rd and 4th ventricles connect?

Answer 25

Cerebral aqueduct

Question 26

What does the subarachnoid space contain?

Answer 26

Blood vessels and CSF

Question 27

What is the function of the thalamus?

Answer 27

It receives almost all sensory info and directs it to the right place

Question 28

What is the lambic system involved in?

Answer 28

Eating
Fighting
Sex drive
Enjoyment
Fear
Memory formation and recall

Question 29

What are the parts of the lambic system?

Answer 29

Cingulate gyrus
Fornix
Hippocampus 
Amygdala
Mammillary body
Olfactory bulb
Parts of thalamus and hypothalamus