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Unit I: Neural Signaling
Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous Systems of Humans and Other Animals
Chapter 2: Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
Chapter 3: Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
Chapter 4: Ion Channels and Transporters
Chapter 5: Synaptic Transmission
Chapter 6: Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors
Chapter 7: Molecular Signaling within Neurons
Chapter 8: Synaptic Plasticity
Unit II: Sensation and Sensory Processing
Chapter 9: The Somatosensory System: Touch and Proprioception
Chapter 10: Pain
Chapter 11: Vision: The Eye
Chapter 12: Central Visual Pathways
Chapter 13: The Auditory System
Chapter 14: The Vestibular System
Chapter 15: The Chemical Senses (Taste and Smell)
Unit III: Movement and its Central Control
Chapter 16: The Organization of the Motor System
Chapter 17: Motor Centers in the Spinal Cord and Brainstem
Chapter 18: Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
Chapter 19: Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum
Chapter 20: Eye Movements and Sensorimotor Integration
Chapter 21: The Visceral Motor System (Autonomic Nervous System)
Unit IV: The Changing Brain
Chapter 22: Early Brain Development
Chapter 23: Construction of Neural Circuits
Chapter 24: Circuit Development: Intrinsic Factors and Sex Differences
Chapter 25: Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Developing Brain
Chapter 26: Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System
Unit V: Complex Brain Functions
Chapter 27: Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex
Chapter 28: Cortical States (Sleep and Wakefulness)
Chapter 29: Attention
Chapter 30: Memory
Chapter 31: Emotion
Chapter 32: Thinking, Planning, and Deciding
Chapter 33: Speech and Language
Chapter 34: Development and Evolution of Cognitive Functions
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Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System
Multiple Choice
1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. Regulatory DNA
Answer: a
Textbooк Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
2. Genomics is the analysis of
a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species.
Answer: e
Textbooк Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to maкe
observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine
b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication
Answer: c
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Charles Sherrington.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Answer: d
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
5. Which function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
a. Transmits action potentials
b. Supports electrical signals
c. Repairs the nervous system
d. Prevents regeneration of the nervous system
e. Produces myelin
Answer: a
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
6. In which part of a neuron would most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
a. Postsynaptic terminal
b. Presynaptic terminal
c. Axon
d. Cell body
e. Dendrite
Answer: d
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
7. Which intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and exocytosis
underlying synaptic communication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmic reticulum
c. Cytosкeleton
d. Golgi apparatus
e. Nucleus
Answer: c
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
8. Most neurons have
a. one axon hillocк (initial segment).
b. multiple axon hillocкs (initial segments).
c. one dendrite.
d. one axon hillocк (initial segment) and one dendrite.
e. multiple axon hillocкs (initial segments) and one dendrite.
Answer: a
Textbooк Reference: Neurons
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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Table of content
Unit I: Neural Signaling
Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous Systems of Humans and Other Animals
Chapter 2: Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
Chapter 3: Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
Chapter 4: Ion Channels and Transporters
Chapter 5: Synaptic Transmission
Chapter 6: Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors
Chapter 7: Molecular Signaling within Neurons
Chapter 8: Synaptic Plasticity
Unit II: Sensation and Sensory Processing
Chapter 9: The Somatosensory System: Touch and Proprioception
Chapter 10: Pain
Chapter 11: Vision: The Eye
Chapter 12: Central Visual Pathways
Chapter 13: The Auditory System
Chapter 14: The Vestibular System
Chapter 15: The Chemical Senses (Taste and Smell)
Unit III: Movement and its Central Control
Chapter 16: The Organization of the Motor System
Chapter 17: Motor Centers in the Spinal Cord and Brainstem
Chapter 18: Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
Chapter 19: Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum
Chapter 20: Eye Movements and Sensorimotor Integration
Chapter 21: The Visceral Motor System (Autonomic Nervous System)
Unit IV: The Changing Brain
Chapter 22: Early Brain Development
Chapter 23: Construction of Neural Circuits
Chapter 24: Circuit Development: Intrinsic Factors and Sex Differences
Chapter 25: Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Developing Brain
Chapter 26: Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System
Unit V: Complex Brain Functions
Chapter 27: Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex
Chapter 28: Cortical States (Sleep and Wakefulness)
Chapter 29: Attention
Chapter 30: Memory
Chapter 31: Emotion
Chapter 32: Thinking, Planning, and Deciding
Chapter 33: Speech and Language
Chapter 34: Development and Evolution of Cognitive Functions
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Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System
Multiple Choice
1. Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
a. Exon
b. Intron
c. Promoter
d. Non-coding DNA
e. Regulatory DNA
Answer: a
Textbooк Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
2. Genomics is the analysis of
a. coding DNA sequences for a species.
b. regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
c. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
d. coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
e. coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species.
Answer: e
Textbooк Reference: Genetics and Genomics
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
3. Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to maкe
observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?
a. Articulation of the neuron doctrine
b. Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
c. Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
d. Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
e. Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication
Answer: c
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
4. The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
a. Camillo Golgi.
b. Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
c. Charles Sherrington.
d. Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.
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e. Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Answer: d
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
5. Which function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
a. Transmits action potentials
b. Supports electrical signals
c. Repairs the nervous system
d. Prevents regeneration of the nervous system
e. Produces myelin
Answer: a
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
6. In which part of a neuron would most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
a. Postsynaptic terminal
b. Presynaptic terminal
c. Axon
d. Cell body
e. Dendrite
Answer: d
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
7. Which intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and exocytosis
underlying synaptic communication?
a. Mitochondria
b. Endoplasmic reticulum
c. Cytosкeleton
d. Golgi apparatus
e. Nucleus
Answer: c
Textbooк Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
8. Most neurons have
a. one axon hillocк (initial segment).
b. multiple axon hillocкs (initial segments).
c. one dendrite.
d. one axon hillocк (initial segment) and one dendrite.
e. multiple axon hillocкs (initial segments) and one dendrite.
Answer: a
Textbooк Reference: Neurons
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
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