NSG 527 Final Exam | Actual Questions and Answers Latest
Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
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Acetylcholine
- ✔✔involved in voluntary movement, learning, memory, and sleep?
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acetylcholine
- ✔✔Too much ___?_____is associated with depression, and too little in the hippocampus
has been associated with dementia.
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Dopamine
- ✔✔correlated with movement, attention, and learning?
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Dopamine
- ✔✔Too much__________?has been associated with schizophrenia, and too little_________?
is associated with some forms of depression as well as the muscular rigidity and tremors
found in Parkinson's disease.
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Norepinephrine
- ✔✔associated with eating, alertness?
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Norepinephrine
- ✔✔Too little _______? has been associated with depression, while an excess has been
associated with schizophrenia.
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Epinephrine
- ✔✔involved in energy, and glucose metabolism?
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Serotonin
- ✔✔plays a role in mood, sleep, appetite, and impulsive and aggressive behavior?
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serotonin
- ✔✔Too little_______? is associated with depression and some anxiety disorders, especially
obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some antidepressant medications increase the availability
of _________? at the receptor sites
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GABA
,- ✔✔inhibits excitation and anxiety?
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GABA
- ✔✔Too little ______?is associated with anxiety and anxiety disorders. Some antianxiety
medication increases _____?at the receptor sites.
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Endorphins
- ✔✔involved in pain relief and feelings of pleasure and contentedness?
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Frontal Lobe
i. - ✔✔• Executive functioning and personality
ii. • Maintain and focus attention
iii. • Organize thinking, planning, speech, and motor activities
iv. • Weigh consequences
v. • Set goals
vi. • Modulate emotions
vii. • Integrate ideas, emotions, and perceptions
viii. • Shapes personality?
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Parietal lobe
i. - ✔✔• Body sensations
ii. • Motor activities, attention and perception of spatial relations
iii. • Processes sensory impulses from the thalamus
iv. • Maintains focused attention
v. • Registers acts of aggression
vi. • Wernicke's area located in the left temporoparietal junction is responsible for the
comprehension of speech??
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Temporal lobe
i. - ✔✔• Emotion and memory circuits
ii. • Hearing, learning, memory circuits, sexual identity, and processing of auditory stimuli
iii. • Gives emotional tone to memories
iv. • Is involved in making moral judgments
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Occipital lobe
i. - ✔✔• Vision
ii. • Visual memory
iii. • Reading
, iv. • language formation • reception of vestibular, acoustic, and tactile stimuli
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Cerebrum
i. - ✔✔• Functions as an auxiliary structure for the entire cerebral cortex
ii. • Posture and balance in walking
iii. • Sequential movements required in eating and writing
iv. • Control speed and acceleration of movement
v. • Involved in smooth eye movement
vi. • Cognition and language
vii. • Memory and impulse control
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Brainstem (Medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrain)
i. - ✔✔• Medulla oblongata- regulation of blood pressure, respiration, and digestion. Reflex
center for vomiting coughing, sneezing, swallowing, and hiccupping.
ii. • Pons- Relays information from the cerebral hemisphere to the cerebellum
iii. • Midbrain- control many sensory and motor functions including eye movement
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Locus ceruleus
i. - ✔✔• Produces norepinephrine
ii. • Activity maintains arousal
iii. • Inactivity allows sleep
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Dorsal raphe
i. - ✔✔• Produces serotonin
ii. • Control sleep wake cycle
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Reticular activating system (RAS)
i. - ✔✔• Involved in arousal and sleep- the "toggle switch"
ii. • Switches the cerebral cortex on when individual is relaxed
iii. • Switches limbic system on when there is a threat
iv. • Regulates thalamus and cortex activities that are involved in emotions
v. • Involved in processing pain and in regulation of heartrate, breathing, perspiration,
swallowing, coughing, salivation, urination, and sexual arousal
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Reticular activating system (RAS)
i. - ✔✔• Involved in arousal and sleep- the "toggle switch"
ii. • Switches the cerebral cortex on when individual is relaxed
iii. • Switches limbic system on when there is a threat
Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
•
Acetylcholine
- ✔✔involved in voluntary movement, learning, memory, and sleep?
•
acetylcholine
- ✔✔Too much ___?_____is associated with depression, and too little in the hippocampus
has been associated with dementia.
•
Dopamine
- ✔✔correlated with movement, attention, and learning?
•
Dopamine
- ✔✔Too much__________?has been associated with schizophrenia, and too little_________?
is associated with some forms of depression as well as the muscular rigidity and tremors
found in Parkinson's disease.
•
Norepinephrine
- ✔✔associated with eating, alertness?
•
Norepinephrine
- ✔✔Too little _______? has been associated with depression, while an excess has been
associated with schizophrenia.
•
Epinephrine
- ✔✔involved in energy, and glucose metabolism?
•
Serotonin
- ✔✔plays a role in mood, sleep, appetite, and impulsive and aggressive behavior?
•
serotonin
- ✔✔Too little_______? is associated with depression and some anxiety disorders, especially
obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some antidepressant medications increase the availability
of _________? at the receptor sites
•
GABA
,- ✔✔inhibits excitation and anxiety?
•
GABA
- ✔✔Too little ______?is associated with anxiety and anxiety disorders. Some antianxiety
medication increases _____?at the receptor sites.
•
Endorphins
- ✔✔involved in pain relief and feelings of pleasure and contentedness?
•
Frontal Lobe
i. - ✔✔• Executive functioning and personality
ii. • Maintain and focus attention
iii. • Organize thinking, planning, speech, and motor activities
iv. • Weigh consequences
v. • Set goals
vi. • Modulate emotions
vii. • Integrate ideas, emotions, and perceptions
viii. • Shapes personality?
•
Parietal lobe
i. - ✔✔• Body sensations
ii. • Motor activities, attention and perception of spatial relations
iii. • Processes sensory impulses from the thalamus
iv. • Maintains focused attention
v. • Registers acts of aggression
vi. • Wernicke's area located in the left temporoparietal junction is responsible for the
comprehension of speech??
•
Temporal lobe
i. - ✔✔• Emotion and memory circuits
ii. • Hearing, learning, memory circuits, sexual identity, and processing of auditory stimuli
iii. • Gives emotional tone to memories
iv. • Is involved in making moral judgments
•
Occipital lobe
i. - ✔✔• Vision
ii. • Visual memory
iii. • Reading
, iv. • language formation • reception of vestibular, acoustic, and tactile stimuli
•
Cerebrum
i. - ✔✔• Functions as an auxiliary structure for the entire cerebral cortex
ii. • Posture and balance in walking
iii. • Sequential movements required in eating and writing
iv. • Control speed and acceleration of movement
v. • Involved in smooth eye movement
vi. • Cognition and language
vii. • Memory and impulse control
•
Brainstem (Medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrain)
i. - ✔✔• Medulla oblongata- regulation of blood pressure, respiration, and digestion. Reflex
center for vomiting coughing, sneezing, swallowing, and hiccupping.
ii. • Pons- Relays information from the cerebral hemisphere to the cerebellum
iii. • Midbrain- control many sensory and motor functions including eye movement
•
Locus ceruleus
i. - ✔✔• Produces norepinephrine
ii. • Activity maintains arousal
iii. • Inactivity allows sleep
•
Dorsal raphe
i. - ✔✔• Produces serotonin
ii. • Control sleep wake cycle
•
Reticular activating system (RAS)
i. - ✔✔• Involved in arousal and sleep- the "toggle switch"
ii. • Switches the cerebral cortex on when individual is relaxed
iii. • Switches limbic system on when there is a threat
iv. • Regulates thalamus and cortex activities that are involved in emotions
v. • Involved in processing pain and in regulation of heartrate, breathing, perspiration,
swallowing, coughing, salivation, urination, and sexual arousal
•
Reticular activating system (RAS)
i. - ✔✔• Involved in arousal and sleep- the "toggle switch"
ii. • Switches the cerebral cortex on when individual is relaxed
iii. • Switches limbic system on when there is a threat
