Overview of Neurology

Question 1

Impulse towards cell body

Answer 1

Dendrites

Question 2

Impulse away from cell body

Answer 2

Axon

Question 3

What is the only sensation that bypasses the thalamus?

Answer 3

Smell

Question 4

Resting membrane potential is ___ on the inside & ___ on the outside

Answer 4

Negative, positive

Question 5

Vibration receptor

Answer 5

Pacinian

Question 6

Joint position sense receptor

Answer 6

Ruffini

Question 7

Conscious proprioception receptor

Answer 7

Ruffini

Question 8

Accurate/Fine touch receptor

Answer 8

Meissner’s/Merkel’s

Question 9

2 point discrimination receptor

Answer 9

Meissner’s/Merkel’s

Question 10

Pain, temp & crude touch receptor

Answer 10

Free naked endings

Question 11

Nociception receptor

Answer 11

Free naked endings

Question 12

During which period of action potential is it harder to fire the nerve?

Answer 12

Relative refractory period

Question 13

Minimum current for action potential is known as

Answer 13

Rheobase

Question 14

Time, using 2x rehabs for action potential is known as

Answer 14

Chronaxie

Question 15

When Cl- rushes in & it can open K+ channels more to leak out K+ is known as

Answer 15

Inhibitory post-synaptic potential

Question 16

What is the inhibitory NT for the spine?

Answer 16

Glycine

Question 17

What is the inhibitory NT for the brain?

Answer 17

GABA