Exam 7: Movement

The growth of new blood vessels is ___________.

The ___________ communicate(s) regularly with the cerebral cortex to contribute to the efficient execution of appropriate movements.

"Muscle memory" is dependent on the ___________.

The lower motor neurons exist in the gray matter of the spinal cord, specifically in the _______.

The normal function of the abnormal proteins found in Lewy bodies is _____________.

When you are doing sit-ups at the gym you are relying on your ________

Parkinson's patients can overcome diminished voluntary movement with ___________.

The ________ suggests that the primate mirror system involved in grasping responses eventually evolved into critical components that prepared the human brain for language.

The primary components of the basal ganglia are ________.

The cerebellum's role in generating precise predictions of the sensory consequences resulting from a movement explains why ___________.

Rats with spinal cord injury regained the ability to walk toward a treat following 9 weeks of neurorehabilitative therapy that included which of the following?

This drug is used to treat Parkinson's disease by increasing levels of dopamine in patients experiencing motor deficits.

The _________________ of the corticospinal tracts in the medulla explains why individuals who suffer a stroke one side of the brain experience paralysis on the opposite side of the body.

The __________________ depicts the proportion of motor cortex areas devoted to certain body parts.

The corticospinal tracts include the ________ and the ________.

Hits, slides, and rings are three terms for sounds the creative theory of language production maintains important for what reason?

The ________ serve as a neural communication transit system to other brain areas.

Excessive contraction of the muscles is detected by ________

Humans have approximately ________ muscles controlling more than ________ joints.

Michael Arbib proposes ________.