EXAM #3 NEUROSCIENCE TEST
GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
What phrase most aptly describes the concept between brain exercise and brain
health? - Answer-"Use it or lose it."
There is an abnormal folding of what class of molecules which causes disruption of
normal function in Prions disease? - Answer-Prion Proteins
The two functions that are impacted by corticobasal degeneration, as depicted in the
name of the disorder are what? - Answer-Cortex and the basal ganglia experience
atrophy and cell loss
Neurological conditions of Krabbe Disease are due to the loss of what that affects
the efficiency of neuronal function? - Answer-GALC Enzyme
What are mirror neurons? - Answer-A neuron that fires when an action is both done,
and seen by another individual.
What area of the brain is typically targeted for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's?
- Answer-Thalamus
What type of cells are responsible for the inflammatory response in the CNS? -
Answer-Microglial Cells
In acupuncture, what neuro-molecules are released by the pituitary to to block pain -
Answer-Endorphines
What anatomical deficits are seen in patients with Neimann-Picks Disease Type A -
Answer-Limited Height and Growth
A deficiency in what vitamin will produce Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome? - Answer-
Vitamin B1
Dopamine from substantia nigra releases neurotransmitter in... - Answer-caudate
nucleus/basal ganglia
Why can't people with a severed corpus callosum verbalize and conceptualize? -
Answer-Broca's Area isn't functioning properly
Mesocortical Pathway - Answer-negative, forms synapses in the cortex
Mesolimbic Pathway - Answer-positive, forms synapses in the nucleus Accumbens
How can we have hyper-active mesolimbic pathway and hypo-active mesocortical
pathways - Answer-hypo-active NMDA receptors
GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
What phrase most aptly describes the concept between brain exercise and brain
health? - Answer-"Use it or lose it."
There is an abnormal folding of what class of molecules which causes disruption of
normal function in Prions disease? - Answer-Prion Proteins
The two functions that are impacted by corticobasal degeneration, as depicted in the
name of the disorder are what? - Answer-Cortex and the basal ganglia experience
atrophy and cell loss
Neurological conditions of Krabbe Disease are due to the loss of what that affects
the efficiency of neuronal function? - Answer-GALC Enzyme
What are mirror neurons? - Answer-A neuron that fires when an action is both done,
and seen by another individual.
What area of the brain is typically targeted for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's?
- Answer-Thalamus
What type of cells are responsible for the inflammatory response in the CNS? -
Answer-Microglial Cells
In acupuncture, what neuro-molecules are released by the pituitary to to block pain -
Answer-Endorphines
What anatomical deficits are seen in patients with Neimann-Picks Disease Type A -
Answer-Limited Height and Growth
A deficiency in what vitamin will produce Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome? - Answer-
Vitamin B1
Dopamine from substantia nigra releases neurotransmitter in... - Answer-caudate
nucleus/basal ganglia
Why can't people with a severed corpus callosum verbalize and conceptualize? -
Answer-Broca's Area isn't functioning properly
Mesocortical Pathway - Answer-negative, forms synapses in the cortex
Mesolimbic Pathway - Answer-positive, forms synapses in the nucleus Accumbens
How can we have hyper-active mesolimbic pathway and hypo-active mesocortical
pathways - Answer-hypo-active NMDA receptors
