Exam 2: Synapses

 Which statement is true of EPSPs?

 Describe the main properties of neuropeptides (neuromodulators).

 Yasmine is in the lab trying to produce action potentials in her cultured neurons. What is most likely to work?

 A normal, healthy animal never contracts the flexor muscles and the extensor muscles of the same leg at the same time. Why not?

 Professor Kinsley is lecturing on EPSPs and action potentials. She tells the class that _____.

 The neuron that receives the message is called the ______ neuron.

 Hormones exert their effects ____.

 Professor Deshon is lecturing about ESPSs and IPSPs. He tells the class that in order to produce an IPSP, there needs to be an increase is permeability for _____.

 If Vonnie's body needed to dilate her blood vessels, it would release _____.

 What is the synaptic cleft?

 Temporal summation is to ____ as spatial summation is to ____.

 Describe the sequence of events that occurs in synaptic transmission.

 Charles S. Sherrington was the first to infer the properties of ____.

 Charles Sherrington would most likely agree with which statement about reflexes?

 Vesicles are located ____.

 In general, a single neuron releases ____ neurotransmitter(s) and can respond to ____ neurotransmitter(s).

 Which process is more typical of a metabotropic effect than an ionotropic effect?

 Paris is studying for a quiz on neurotransmitters. She should remember that all of the following are catecholamines except _____.

 The circuit from sensory neuron to muscle response is called ____.

 Neuropeptides are synthesized in the ____.