Exam 3: The Human Brain

The __________ is responsible for survival-oriented functions such as breathing,cardiac function,and basic arousal.

When you were a very young child,you may have been warned repeatedly by your parents about avoiding activities that would cause you to "hit your head." Specifically your mother was probably worried about you doing anything that would cause you to fall backward and strike the rear-most portion of your head on the ground.If you were to have such an unfortunate fall,which lobe of the cerebral cortex would you be most likely to damage?

Approximately how many interneurons are contained in the human central nervous system?

What is meant by the statement "A major characteristic of the human brain is integration?"

Famed actor Christopher Reeve suffered a spinal cord injury as a result of a horse-riding accident.Until his death several years later,Mr.Reeve required the assistance of a respirator,a machine that artificially controlled his breathing.Additionally,he was virtually unable to use any part of his body below his neck and required a tremendous amount of daily assistance.Which part of the spinal cord was damaged in Christopher Reeve's horse-riding accident?

Researcher Michael Gazzaniga studied patients who had what is called a "split brain" procedure,in which the corpus callosum is cut to reduce seizures that threaten the brain health of a patient.As a result of his research,what was Gazzaniga able to determine about the relationship between the right cerebral hemisphere and language?

All but which of the following are parts of the human peripheral nervous system?

__________ refers to the brain's ability to adapt,grow,and change.

The largest part of the human nervous system is the __________ nervous system.

If you were able to (safely)remove your own brain and flatten out the entire cerebral cortex,how large would it be?

The spinal cord connects the brain to the __________ nervous system.

Certain functions of the human body call for one side of the brain to control the other side of the body.Other functions,however,call for one side of the brain to control the same side of the body.For example,if the functions of the left side of your body are controlled by the left side of your brain,this is called __________ connectivity.

In 1937,Ramón y Cajal observed __________ under a microscope and referred to them as "protoplasmic kisses."

The gray matter of a human brain is made up mostly of neurons' __________,while the white matter of that same brain is made up mostly of neurons' __________.