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Biopsychology: Quiz 4
1.
Adult laboratory rats living in an enriched environment have been found to produce 60% more new _________________ than do laboratory rats living in a nonenriched environment.
2.
Ischemic brain damage is most obvious in the _________________ layer of the _________ of the ________________.
3.
____________ cells promote and direct neural regeneration in the mammalian ____________ nervous systems; in contrast, ______________ actively block regeneration in the mammalian ____________ nervous system.
4.
Which of the following two terms do not belong here?
1. severe communication problems
2. superior olive
3. elastin
4. thalidomide
5. Hoxa 1
6. friendly
5.
The ____________ is an apparatus that is used in the rat version of the _______________ test.Deficits on this test seem to model the deficits in human long-term ___________ memory, which are commonly observed in human amnesics. ( no part marks)
6.
Experimental evidence suggests that all adults have experienced so-called ___________ amnesia.
7.
Professor P.'s encapsulated tumour was of a particular type. It was an _______________.
8.
An ____________ is a ______________ that has taken a trip.
9.
Put each letter next to the most relevant syndrome for amnesia.
a. medial diencephalons
b. R.B.
c. N.A.
d. R.M.
e. rhinal cortex
f. ECS
g. basal forebrain
h. alcohol
1. Medial temporal lobe amnesia __________
2. Korsakoff's amnesia ___________________
3. Alzheimer's amnesia ___________________
4. Posttraumatic amnesia _________________
10.
Michelle banged her forehead on the steering wheel when her car was struck by a truck. A neurological examination revealed some cerebral bleeding therefore the diagnosis was that she had suffered a cerebral _____________ .Because the bleeding was restricted to the occipital lobe, it was clearly a _____________ injury.
11.
Put the following developmental structures and processes in correct chronological order by placing a letter in the appropriate answerbox. (a, b, c, etc.).
a) apoptosis ____
b) neural crest _____
c) neural plate _____
d) totipotency _____
e) neural groove _____
f) filopodia ____
12.
The first indication that H.M.'s ability to form new long-term memories was specific to long-term explicit memories came from a study involving the _____________ test.
13.
Because it does not involve inflammation, __________ is more adaptive than __________.
14.
Put each letter beside the number with the most appropriate structure.
1) memory of emotional significance
2) Pavlovian eyeblink conditioning
3) object recognition deficits
4) place cells
5) temporal order fo events
6) food-caching.
a) hippocampus _____
b) amygdala _____
c) rhinal corex _____
d) prefrontal cortex _____
e) cerebellum _____
f) striatium ______
15.
_____________ seems to be a requirement for the induction of LTP. The hypothesis that it is also a physiological necessity for learning is called ________postulate.
16.
Put each letter next to the most relevant brain disorder.
a. myelin
b. cholinergic agonists
c. tau
d. amyloid
e. dominant gene
f. cool climate
1. Alzheimer's disease ______________
2. Multiple sclerosis _______________
3. Huntington's disease _____________
17.
LTP has been most frequently studied in the ___________ at glutaminergic synapses where the __________ receptor predominates.
18.
LTP is considered to comprise three different phases each with a different mechanism. In chronological order, these are _______________, _________________, and _________. Of the three, neuroscientists know most about the mechanisms of __________________.
19.
Because he had many seizures and was heavily medicated in the months prior to his surgery, the degree of H.M.'s __________ memory impairment is difficult to assess.
20.
Animals into which the genes of another species have been inserted are said to be _________________.
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