NEUROBIOLOGY - CHAPTER 1 (EXAM
1) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Hippocrates - Correct Answers -First person known to attribute intelligence to the brain
Aristotle - Correct Answers -Believed brain cools overheated blood and allows
rationality
Valen - Correct Answers -Discovered the ventricles and thought they were filled with
humors
Descartes - Correct Answers -Thought the mind was outside of the brain; mind
communicated with the brain through pineal gland
Bell - Correct Answers -Discovered the ventral root was for motor movement
Magendie - Correct Answers -Discovered the dorsal root was for sensations
Gall - Correct Answers -Studied phrenology
Broca - Correct Answers -Discovered a region in the brain for speech
Flourens - Correct Answers -Experimental ablation studies provided evidence against
phrenology
Fritsch & Hitzig - Correct Answers -Studies in dogs found electrical current could evoke
discrete movements
Ferrier - Correct Answers -Studies in monkeys found electrical current could evoke
discrete movements
Monk - Correct Answers -Ablation studies found the occipital lobe is for vision
Darwin - Correct Answers -Theories on the evolution of the nervous system by natural
selection
Alzheimer's disease - Correct Answers -Progressive degeneration of the brain,
characterized by dementia and always fetal
, Autism - Correct Answers -a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by
deficient communication, social interaction, and restricted and repetitive behaviors
Cerebral Palsy - Correct Answers -a motor disorder caused by damage to the cerebrum
before, during, or soon after birth
Schwann - Correct Answers -Cell theory
Golgi - Correct Answers -Reticular theory
Ramon y Cajal - Correct Answers -Neuron doctrine
Golgi & Cajal - Correct Answers -Won nobel prize in 1906 for anatomical studies of
nervous system
Neuroscience - Correct Answers -curiosity, pain, pleasure, movement, reasoning,
learning, memory, emotion, and madness
The society for Neuroscience was established in - Correct Answers -1970
skull surgeries - Correct Answers -Trepanation, skulls showed signs of healing
Ancient Egypt 5000 ya - Correct Answers -heart is the soul and memory not the head or
brain
Ancient Greece 460-379 BCE - Correct Answers -correlation between structures and
function.
Ancient greece scientist - Correct Answers -Hippocrates, and Aristotle
Roman Empire - Correct Answers -Cerebrum and Cerebellum
- Ventricles filled with humors
- Nerves were hollow tubes to conduct humors; which were sensation and movements
Roman Empire Scientist - Correct Answers -Greek physician Valen
Renaissance/17th Century - Correct Answers -The brain was viewed as a machine
-Fluid- mechanical theory of the brain function
Renaissance/17th century Scientist - Correct Answers -Descartes
17th and 18th centuries - Correct Answers -Gray matter, white matter
White matter is cerebral spinal fluid
White matter - Correct Answers -is continuous with the nerves, so it sends information
to/from gray matter.
1) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Hippocrates - Correct Answers -First person known to attribute intelligence to the brain
Aristotle - Correct Answers -Believed brain cools overheated blood and allows
rationality
Valen - Correct Answers -Discovered the ventricles and thought they were filled with
humors
Descartes - Correct Answers -Thought the mind was outside of the brain; mind
communicated with the brain through pineal gland
Bell - Correct Answers -Discovered the ventral root was for motor movement
Magendie - Correct Answers -Discovered the dorsal root was for sensations
Gall - Correct Answers -Studied phrenology
Broca - Correct Answers -Discovered a region in the brain for speech
Flourens - Correct Answers -Experimental ablation studies provided evidence against
phrenology
Fritsch & Hitzig - Correct Answers -Studies in dogs found electrical current could evoke
discrete movements
Ferrier - Correct Answers -Studies in monkeys found electrical current could evoke
discrete movements
Monk - Correct Answers -Ablation studies found the occipital lobe is for vision
Darwin - Correct Answers -Theories on the evolution of the nervous system by natural
selection
Alzheimer's disease - Correct Answers -Progressive degeneration of the brain,
characterized by dementia and always fetal
, Autism - Correct Answers -a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by
deficient communication, social interaction, and restricted and repetitive behaviors
Cerebral Palsy - Correct Answers -a motor disorder caused by damage to the cerebrum
before, during, or soon after birth
Schwann - Correct Answers -Cell theory
Golgi - Correct Answers -Reticular theory
Ramon y Cajal - Correct Answers -Neuron doctrine
Golgi & Cajal - Correct Answers -Won nobel prize in 1906 for anatomical studies of
nervous system
Neuroscience - Correct Answers -curiosity, pain, pleasure, movement, reasoning,
learning, memory, emotion, and madness
The society for Neuroscience was established in - Correct Answers -1970
skull surgeries - Correct Answers -Trepanation, skulls showed signs of healing
Ancient Egypt 5000 ya - Correct Answers -heart is the soul and memory not the head or
brain
Ancient Greece 460-379 BCE - Correct Answers -correlation between structures and
function.
Ancient greece scientist - Correct Answers -Hippocrates, and Aristotle
Roman Empire - Correct Answers -Cerebrum and Cerebellum
- Ventricles filled with humors
- Nerves were hollow tubes to conduct humors; which were sensation and movements
Roman Empire Scientist - Correct Answers -Greek physician Valen
Renaissance/17th Century - Correct Answers -The brain was viewed as a machine
-Fluid- mechanical theory of the brain function
Renaissance/17th century Scientist - Correct Answers -Descartes
17th and 18th centuries - Correct Answers -Gray matter, white matter
White matter is cerebral spinal fluid
White matter - Correct Answers -is continuous with the nerves, so it sends information
to/from gray matter.
