PRITE PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
EXAMPREP VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE LEARNING
PACKAGE
●● Mesolimbic DA pathway includes which structure?
Answer: VENTRAL STRIATUM
●● In addiction, dopaminergic neurons project to nucleus
accumbens. Cell bodies of these neurons reside in
which area of brain?
Answer: VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA
●● Neural plasticity largely mediated through the capacity
to rapidly change in number and morphology which fo
the following?
Answer: DENDRITIC SPINES
●● The uncinated fasciculus connects which of the
following brain areas?
Answer: ANTERIOR TEMPORAL AND VENTRAL PRE-FRONTAL
,REGIONS
●● What are cortical columns?
Answer: FUNCTIONAL UNITS FOR INFORMATION
PROCESSING
●● Abnormal emotional expressions such as pathological
laughter or crying caused by lesions affecting cortical-
subcortical circuits linking frontal cortex, pons and
what?
Answer: CEREBELLUM
●● Exposure to light effects which brain structure?
Answer: SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS
●● When does synaptogenesis peak?
Answer: FIRST 4 YEARS OF LIFE
●● Where does the neuron morphology in the brain
change the most?
Answer: PREFRONTAL CORTEX
,●● threatening objects produce startle response prior to
person becoming consciously aware. Connection of
thalamus to what?
Answer: AMYGDALA
●● Huntington's disease characterised by loss of neurons
producing which NT
Answer: GABA
●● Adult neurogenesis in which area of the brain?
Answer: HIPPOCAMPUS
●● 17y/o is evaluated for binge eating associated with a
60 lb weight gain over the past four months. CT shows
a craniopharyngioma that likely disrupts what
structure?
Answer: VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS
●● What is an accurate statement about the brain's default
mode network?
Answer: IS INVOLVED IN REPROCESSING PREVIOUSLY
EXPERIENCED STIMULI
, ●● The most likely reason that adults are superior to
adolescents in abstract thinking. The brain undergoes:
Answer: SYNAPTIC PRUNING
●● Dorsal-lateral-pre-frontal cortext plays important role in
what activity?
Answer: WORKING MEMORY
●● Drug abuse activates neuro circuits. Generates signals
in the ventral tegmental area and to where?
Answer: DOPAMINE INTO THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS
●● Ninety-five percent of right-handed people develop
left hemispheric dominance for language. What
percentage of left handed people develop left
hemispheric dominance for language?
Answer: 75%
●● Prostaglandin D2 increases extracellular levels of...
Answer: ADENOSINE
EXAMPREP VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS COMPLETE LEARNING
PACKAGE
●● Mesolimbic DA pathway includes which structure?
Answer: VENTRAL STRIATUM
●● In addiction, dopaminergic neurons project to nucleus
accumbens. Cell bodies of these neurons reside in
which area of brain?
Answer: VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA
●● Neural plasticity largely mediated through the capacity
to rapidly change in number and morphology which fo
the following?
Answer: DENDRITIC SPINES
●● The uncinated fasciculus connects which of the
following brain areas?
Answer: ANTERIOR TEMPORAL AND VENTRAL PRE-FRONTAL
,REGIONS
●● What are cortical columns?
Answer: FUNCTIONAL UNITS FOR INFORMATION
PROCESSING
●● Abnormal emotional expressions such as pathological
laughter or crying caused by lesions affecting cortical-
subcortical circuits linking frontal cortex, pons and
what?
Answer: CEREBELLUM
●● Exposure to light effects which brain structure?
Answer: SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS
●● When does synaptogenesis peak?
Answer: FIRST 4 YEARS OF LIFE
●● Where does the neuron morphology in the brain
change the most?
Answer: PREFRONTAL CORTEX
,●● threatening objects produce startle response prior to
person becoming consciously aware. Connection of
thalamus to what?
Answer: AMYGDALA
●● Huntington's disease characterised by loss of neurons
producing which NT
Answer: GABA
●● Adult neurogenesis in which area of the brain?
Answer: HIPPOCAMPUS
●● 17y/o is evaluated for binge eating associated with a
60 lb weight gain over the past four months. CT shows
a craniopharyngioma that likely disrupts what
structure?
Answer: VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS
●● What is an accurate statement about the brain's default
mode network?
Answer: IS INVOLVED IN REPROCESSING PREVIOUSLY
EXPERIENCED STIMULI
, ●● The most likely reason that adults are superior to
adolescents in abstract thinking. The brain undergoes:
Answer: SYNAPTIC PRUNING
●● Dorsal-lateral-pre-frontal cortext plays important role in
what activity?
Answer: WORKING MEMORY
●● Drug abuse activates neuro circuits. Generates signals
in the ventral tegmental area and to where?
Answer: DOPAMINE INTO THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS
●● Ninety-five percent of right-handed people develop
left hemispheric dominance for language. What
percentage of left handed people develop left
hemispheric dominance for language?
Answer: 75%
●● Prostaglandin D2 increases extracellular levels of...
Answer: ADENOSINE
