NURS 5357 NEUROBIOLOGY EXAM 4
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ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ the goal of neurofeedback is for the subject to improve their
attention by spending more time in which rhythm?
Answer: beta
◉ Stimulant medications improve attention and concentration
through the following mechanism except?
Answer: Increase NE efflux in the striatum
◉ Activity at the nucleus accumbens (or striatum) helps explain all
of the following except?
Answer: Working memory
◉ Children who fail to "grow out" of ADHD show all of the following
except?
Answer: Compensatory thickening of the parietal gray matter
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Prefrontal cortex
,Answer: working memory
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Cerbellum
Answer: Temporal processing
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Nucleus accumbens
Answer: Delay of gratification
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Parietal cortex
Answer: Compensatory gray matter thickening
◉ ____ fiber respond only to noxious mechanical, heat and chemical
stimuli such as fire and chili
Answer: C
◉ ___fiber is what becomes most troublesome for chronic pain
condition
Answer: C
, ◉ ___ fiber respond only to non-noxious stimuli like feather
Answer: alpha beta
◉ ___ fiber respond to noxious mechanical stimuli and sub noxious
thermal stimuli like hammer
Answer: alpha beta
◉ in the ascending pathway, 2 different pathways bringing pain
signals from the periphery to the central nervous system include
sensory discriminative and ___
Answer: afferent motivational
◉ in the sensory discriminative domain, pain signals travels up
spinothalamic tract -->lateral thalamus-->somatosensory cortex
allowing awareness of ___
Answer: pain location ; where does it hurt
◉ anxiety may be too much amygdala activity and not enough___
activity
Answer: prefrontal cortex
reciprocal relationship between prefrontal cortex and amygdala in
anxiety
◉ smaller___in anxious patient possibly due to excess cortisol?
ASSESSMENT SCRIPT 2026 VERIFIED
ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ the goal of neurofeedback is for the subject to improve their
attention by spending more time in which rhythm?
Answer: beta
◉ Stimulant medications improve attention and concentration
through the following mechanism except?
Answer: Increase NE efflux in the striatum
◉ Activity at the nucleus accumbens (or striatum) helps explain all
of the following except?
Answer: Working memory
◉ Children who fail to "grow out" of ADHD show all of the following
except?
Answer: Compensatory thickening of the parietal gray matter
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Prefrontal cortex
,Answer: working memory
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Cerbellum
Answer: Temporal processing
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Nucleus accumbens
Answer: Delay of gratification
◉ Which structure is associated with which finding in ADHD?
Parietal cortex
Answer: Compensatory gray matter thickening
◉ ____ fiber respond only to noxious mechanical, heat and chemical
stimuli such as fire and chili
Answer: C
◉ ___fiber is what becomes most troublesome for chronic pain
condition
Answer: C
, ◉ ___ fiber respond only to non-noxious stimuli like feather
Answer: alpha beta
◉ ___ fiber respond to noxious mechanical stimuli and sub noxious
thermal stimuli like hammer
Answer: alpha beta
◉ in the ascending pathway, 2 different pathways bringing pain
signals from the periphery to the central nervous system include
sensory discriminative and ___
Answer: afferent motivational
◉ in the sensory discriminative domain, pain signals travels up
spinothalamic tract -->lateral thalamus-->somatosensory cortex
allowing awareness of ___
Answer: pain location ; where does it hurt
◉ anxiety may be too much amygdala activity and not enough___
activity
Answer: prefrontal cortex
reciprocal relationship between prefrontal cortex and amygdala in
anxiety
◉ smaller___in anxious patient possibly due to excess cortisol?
