Exam 11: The Body Senses and Movement

Myasthenia gravis is a degenerative disorder of the striatum.

Anecdotally,you may have heard that one of the commonly cited medical uses for marijuana is pain relief for cancer patients;this anecdotal evidence can be supported by findings that ___ can act as ___.

___ function as___.

The ___ is a cortical area where information from different sensory modalities is combined and integrated.

The somatosensory cortex contains a map of the body.

The brain chemicals known as endorphins produce effects similar to which substance(s)?

Electrical stimulation of specific neurons can produce pain relief.

Which structure is not part of the basal ganglia?

Gate control theory argues that pressure signals produce ___ that prevents pain information from reaching the brain.

Activity of a muscle spindle is to___ as activity of the Golgi tendon organ is to___.

Without a vestibular system we would experience:

The secondary somatosensory cortex combines inputs from both the left and the right primary somatosensory areas.

You might speculate that substance P evolved as a specialized pain signaling mechanism with survival advantage since substance P is only released during ___.

An individual who has Parkinson's disease would likely have degeneration of neurons in the ___.

While ___ are powerful analgesics,___ can block this effect.

Some analgesics such as aspirin and ibuprofen provide pain relief by:

A neuropeptide released by pain-carrying axons is:

The basal ganglia consists of the:

In mutant mice who lack substance P or receptors for substance P:

Investigators can directly examine the sequences of bases in genes as an accurate pre-symptomatic test for which of the following?