Week 4

Question 1

EEG, fMRI, PET and MEG are examples of what method to examine brain function?

Answer 1

Passive

Question 2

Lesions, stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, single cell recording, sub cortical recordings and injection of radioactive substance.
Are these examples of passive or invasive methods to examine brain function?

Answer 2

Invasive

Question 3

The autonomic nervous system controls what?

Answer 3

Basic life functions

Question 4

The sympathetic nervous system readies the body in response to threat. True or false?

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Describe the function of afferent fibres

Answer 5

They carry information from the peripheral nervous system to the CNS

Question 6

Name the three structures that protect the brain and spinal chord.

Answer 6

Bone covering, meninges and cerebrospinal fluid.

Question 7

What does the spinal reflex do?

Answer 7

provides rapid response to stimuli.

Question 8

What are the functions of the forebrain?

Answer 8

Sensing, thinking, voluntary movement, emotion, learning, consciousness.

Question 9

The parietal lobe processes tactile information. What other 2 functions does it carry out?

Answer 9

integrates visual info and monitors a persons position in space.

Question 10

What are the 3 functions of the frontal lobe?

Answer 10

controls movement of voluntary muscles
important for high order functions
may be the executive control centre of the brain that monitors, organises and directs thought processes.

Question 11

What is the function of the prefrontal cortex?

Answer 11

it is implicated in relational reasoning and working memory

Question 12

True or false, the thalamus receives sensory information which it distributes to the relevant area of the cerebrum.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What structures compose the limbic system?

Answer 13

Parts of the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, the mammillary body and other structures.

Question 14

What is the function of the hippocampus?

Answer 14

Memory

Question 15

What is the function of the hypothalamus?

Answer 15

Regulation of basic bodily needs, motivation and the 4f’s.

Question 16

This part of the brain is important in some sensory processes and it contains a system of dopamine releasing neurons that are important for voluntary movements.

a) forebrain
b) midbrain
c) hindbrain

Answer 16

b. the midbrain

Question 17

The reticular formation is important for muscle reflexes, breathing, pain perception and regulation of sleep and arousal. True or false?

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What is the cerebellum important for?

Answer 18

Co-ordination of movement and balance. It organises sensory info and integrates motor commands to provide smooth motor actions.

Question 19

Retrograde amnesia occurs before or after accident?

Answer 19

Before

Question 20

Define neuroplasticity.

Answer 20

The reorganisation both structurally and functionally of the brain, in response to genes, environment, learning and injury.

Question 21

The left hemisphere is important for:
emotional content, direction distance and geometry, non-verbal memory, perceptual aspect, faces and patters, non-language sounds and movement in spatial patterns. True of false?

Answer 21

False, that is the function of the right hemisphere.

Question 22

name the 5 functions of the left hemisphere.

Answer 22

Speech, reading, writing and arithmetic
Verbal memory, meaning in memory
Words and letters
Language sounds
Complex movement