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Neurophysiology
CLEP Exam
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Peripheral nervous system | The part of the nervous system outside the brain and the spinal cord that includes the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system. |
| Acetylcholine | Muscle movement, attention, arousal, memory, emotion |
| Dopamine | Voluntary movement, learning, memory, emotion |
| Norepinephrine | Learning, memory, dreaming, awakening, emotion, stress-related increase in heart rate, stress-related slowing of digestive processes |
| Glutamate | Main excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain |
| Norepinephrine Disorder | Depression |
| Excess Dopamine | Schizophrenia |
| Excess Glutamate | Multiple sclerosis |
| Lesioning studies | An invasive method of studying the brain in which a specific, small area of the brain is destroyed. |
| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | A method for studying the brain that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce pictures of the brain. |
| Positron emission tomography (PET) | A method for studying the brain that involves injecting a radioactive substance, which collects in active brain areas. |
| Medulla | A part of the hindbrain that controls essential functions that are not under conscious control, such as breathing. |
| Pons | A part of the hindbrain involved in sleeping, waking, and dreaming. |
| Damage to cerebellum | impairs fine motor skills, so a person with an injury in this area would have trouble playing the guitar or typing a term paper. |
| Reticular Formation | runs through the hindbrain and the midbrain and is involved in sleep and wakefulness, pain perception, breathing, and muscle reflexes. |
| Left Hemisphere | specializes in verbal processing tasks such as writing, reading, and talking. |
| Right Hemisphere | specializes in nonverbal processing tasks such as playing music, drawing, and recognizing childhood friends. |
| Which type of sensory information does not pass through the thalamus? | Olfactory |
| n which lobe of the brain is Wernicke’s area, the part of the brain involved in understanding language? | The left temporal lobe |
| Why does the resting potential occur? | The inside of a neuron has a higher concentration of negative ions than the outside |
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