EPPP EXAMINATION TEST COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2026
● avolition. Answer: low goal directed behavior
● aphasia. Answer: language issue
● apraxia. Answer: motor issue
● agnosia. Answer: issue naming ppl/objects
● dysarthia. Answer: articulation issue
● anomia. Answer: word finding "naming" issue
● ideomotor apraxia. Answer: issue putting idea into movement
● paraparesis. Answer: lower limb weakness
● paraplegia. Answer: lower body paralyzed
,● dementia pugilistica. Answer: boxing dementia progressive
● anosognosia. Answer: poor insight
● transient tic. Answer: 1-12 months
● tourettes. Answer: high dopamine. 1 verbal and several motor. haldol
tx.
● new neurons. Answer: aka neurogenesis; in hippocampus and caudate
nucleus
● neuron parts. Answer: dendrite
axon
cell body (soma)
● all-or-none principle. Answer: stimulation in neuron exceeds
threshold; the action potential will be the same intensity
● synaptic transmission. Answer: neurotransmitter released into synaptic
cleft
,● Ach. Answer: alzeheimer's memory issues (drugs slow breakdown of
Ach)
● dopamine. Answer: personality, mood, memory, sleep.
dopamine hypothesis: too much in schizo
motor diseases: tourette's (too much), parkinsons (breakdown)
● norepiniphrine. Answer: mood, attn, dreaming, learning, autonomic
catecholamine hypothesis: low in depression
● serotonin (5HT). Answer: inhibitory effect: mood, hunger, temp. sex,
arousal, sleep, aggression, migraine.
high in schizo, autism, anorexia food restriction
low in bulimia, ptsd, ocd, depression, suicide, social phobia
● GABA. Answer: eating, seizure, anxiety, huntingtons
low in anxiety
, ● glutamate. Answer: learning, memory, LTP.
too much in excitotoxicity, alzeheimers, hungtingtons
● endorphins. Answer: analgesis pain relief. prevent release of substance
P.
"runner's high"
● CNS. Answer: brain and spinal cord (connects to PNS)
● PNS. Answer: somatic nervous
autonomic nervous (parasympathetic - decrease, and sympathetic-fight
or flight)
relays info between cns and body organs
● cervical damage. Answer: quadriplegia (arms and legs)
● thoracic damage. Answer: paraplegia (legs)
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2026
● avolition. Answer: low goal directed behavior
● aphasia. Answer: language issue
● apraxia. Answer: motor issue
● agnosia. Answer: issue naming ppl/objects
● dysarthia. Answer: articulation issue
● anomia. Answer: word finding "naming" issue
● ideomotor apraxia. Answer: issue putting idea into movement
● paraparesis. Answer: lower limb weakness
● paraplegia. Answer: lower body paralyzed
,● dementia pugilistica. Answer: boxing dementia progressive
● anosognosia. Answer: poor insight
● transient tic. Answer: 1-12 months
● tourettes. Answer: high dopamine. 1 verbal and several motor. haldol
tx.
● new neurons. Answer: aka neurogenesis; in hippocampus and caudate
nucleus
● neuron parts. Answer: dendrite
axon
cell body (soma)
● all-or-none principle. Answer: stimulation in neuron exceeds
threshold; the action potential will be the same intensity
● synaptic transmission. Answer: neurotransmitter released into synaptic
cleft
,● Ach. Answer: alzeheimer's memory issues (drugs slow breakdown of
Ach)
● dopamine. Answer: personality, mood, memory, sleep.
dopamine hypothesis: too much in schizo
motor diseases: tourette's (too much), parkinsons (breakdown)
● norepiniphrine. Answer: mood, attn, dreaming, learning, autonomic
catecholamine hypothesis: low in depression
● serotonin (5HT). Answer: inhibitory effect: mood, hunger, temp. sex,
arousal, sleep, aggression, migraine.
high in schizo, autism, anorexia food restriction
low in bulimia, ptsd, ocd, depression, suicide, social phobia
● GABA. Answer: eating, seizure, anxiety, huntingtons
low in anxiety
, ● glutamate. Answer: learning, memory, LTP.
too much in excitotoxicity, alzeheimers, hungtingtons
● endorphins. Answer: analgesis pain relief. prevent release of substance
P.
"runner's high"
● CNS. Answer: brain and spinal cord (connects to PNS)
● PNS. Answer: somatic nervous
autonomic nervous (parasympathetic - decrease, and sympathetic-fight
or flight)
relays info between cns and body organs
● cervical damage. Answer: quadriplegia (arms and legs)
● thoracic damage. Answer: paraplegia (legs)
