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Neurophysiology Test

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

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