Exam 3: The Brain and the Nervous System

What may be the advantage of stem cells in comparison to "adult' cells in terms of neurogenesis?

New connections in the brain are formed largely because of the emergence of new __________.

__________ are bundles of neurons that conduct excitation toward the brain or spinal cord.

Samantha is a highly trained pianist. How would you expect her brain to differ from those not highly trained in music?

Which of the following is not part of a neuron?

Which of the following is the smallest?

Inhibition and excitation at synapses operate by __________.

The brain lobe in the back of your head is called the __________ lobe.

During brain surgery, a portion of the patient's cortex is stimulated, and she reports that she hears a loud hum. The site of stimulation is probably the __________ lobe.

Darneese pats the back of her head. The brain area she would be touching is called the __________ lobe.

A patient sustains a head injury that results in loss of ability to breathe. Upon autopsy, neural damage will most likely be found in the __________.

Roberto is measuring the rate of neural transmission in two animals. Animal A has myelinated neurons, while animal B has unmyelinated neurons. Which of the following is likely to be true?

René Descartes made his speculations about reflexes shortly after __________.

If you want a neuron to fire, you should bathe it with transmitter substances that will __________.

In 1848, Phineas Gage was the victim of a severe accident in which an iron rod penetrated his skull and passed through a large part of his brain. Following the accident, Gage seemed like an entirely different person; for instance, he could no longer form plans and execute them to achieve a goal. What was the site of Gage's brain damage?

Bach and Mozart are to temporal as da Vinci and Escher are to __________.

The soma or cell body of a neuron __________.

The longitudinal fissure divides the _____, while the central fissure divides the __________.

Which of the following techniques uses changes in the event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine brain activity?

What part of an elephant might you expect to have a particularly large amount of space in the motor homunculus?