NEUROBIOLOGY - EXAM 1:
CHAPTERS 1, 2, AND 3 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
aspects of neuroscience - Correct Answers -- curiosity
- pain
- pleasure
- movement
- reasoning
- learning
- memory
- emotion
- anger
neuroscience - Correct Answers -study of the nervous system
prehistoric ancestors - Correct Answers -- brain is vital to life
- skull surgeries: signs of trepanation and healing in skulls
Trepanation - Correct Answers -ancient practice of drilling holes in the skull
Ancient Egypt - Correct Answers -heart: seat of soul and memory (not the brain)
ancient Greece discovered... - Correct Answers -correlation between structure and
function of the brain
Hippocrates (ancient Greece) - Correct Answers -- brain is involved in sensation; seat of
intelligence
- epilepsy: disease of the brain (beforehand it was a disease of the spirit)
Claudius Galen (the Roman Empire) - Correct Answers -- studies the brain with direct
observation and experimentation
- discovered cerebellum, cerebrum, and ventricles
Ibn al-Haytham - Correct Answers -- founded the science of optics
- drew the optic nerve
- proposed perception occurs in the brain
, Cerebrum - Correct Answers -largest area of the brain responsible for all voluntary
activities of the body
ventricles of the brain - Correct Answers -Canals in the brain that contain cerebrospinal
fluid.
Renaissance/17th Century - Correct Answers -- the brain as a machine
- fluid-mechanical theory of brain function
- Descartes: philosophical mind-brain problem
- brain anatomy relied on direct observation = more accurate depictions (drawings)
Descartes (renaissance) discovered... - Correct Answers -the philosophical mind-brain
problem
brain stem - Correct Answers -- Connection to spinal cord.
- Filters information flow between peripheral nervous system and the rest of the brain.
- midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata
when were gray and white matter discovered? - Correct Answers -17th and 18th century
white matter is ___% of the brain - Correct Answers -60%
deep cerebral white matter contains... - Correct Answers -CSF-filled cerebral ventricles
function of white matter - Correct Answers -- coordinate distribution of action potentials
- carry signals between neurons of the CNS
- pass messages between gray matter cell bodies using axons
contents of white matter - Correct Answers -- many long myelinated axons (nerve fibers)
- few cell bodies
- neuroglial cells
- NO dendrites
dorsal column - Correct Answers -sensory info to the brain
ventral column - Correct Answers -sensory pain, temperature, and some motor
information to brain
CHAPTERS 1, 2, AND 3 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
aspects of neuroscience - Correct Answers -- curiosity
- pain
- pleasure
- movement
- reasoning
- learning
- memory
- emotion
- anger
neuroscience - Correct Answers -study of the nervous system
prehistoric ancestors - Correct Answers -- brain is vital to life
- skull surgeries: signs of trepanation and healing in skulls
Trepanation - Correct Answers -ancient practice of drilling holes in the skull
Ancient Egypt - Correct Answers -heart: seat of soul and memory (not the brain)
ancient Greece discovered... - Correct Answers -correlation between structure and
function of the brain
Hippocrates (ancient Greece) - Correct Answers -- brain is involved in sensation; seat of
intelligence
- epilepsy: disease of the brain (beforehand it was a disease of the spirit)
Claudius Galen (the Roman Empire) - Correct Answers -- studies the brain with direct
observation and experimentation
- discovered cerebellum, cerebrum, and ventricles
Ibn al-Haytham - Correct Answers -- founded the science of optics
- drew the optic nerve
- proposed perception occurs in the brain
, Cerebrum - Correct Answers -largest area of the brain responsible for all voluntary
activities of the body
ventricles of the brain - Correct Answers -Canals in the brain that contain cerebrospinal
fluid.
Renaissance/17th Century - Correct Answers -- the brain as a machine
- fluid-mechanical theory of brain function
- Descartes: philosophical mind-brain problem
- brain anatomy relied on direct observation = more accurate depictions (drawings)
Descartes (renaissance) discovered... - Correct Answers -the philosophical mind-brain
problem
brain stem - Correct Answers -- Connection to spinal cord.
- Filters information flow between peripheral nervous system and the rest of the brain.
- midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata
when were gray and white matter discovered? - Correct Answers -17th and 18th century
white matter is ___% of the brain - Correct Answers -60%
deep cerebral white matter contains... - Correct Answers -CSF-filled cerebral ventricles
function of white matter - Correct Answers -- coordinate distribution of action potentials
- carry signals between neurons of the CNS
- pass messages between gray matter cell bodies using axons
contents of white matter - Correct Answers -- many long myelinated axons (nerve fibers)
- few cell bodies
- neuroglial cells
- NO dendrites
dorsal column - Correct Answers -sensory info to the brain
ventral column - Correct Answers -sensory pain, temperature, and some motor
information to brain
