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1) After the brain receives information from the sensory receptors and sensory nerves, it then has to process this information to make some sort of sense of it. What is this processing called?

2) On a multipolar neuron there are several processes (or fibers) connected to the cell body that are specialized for receiving input from other neurons. What are these processes (or fibers) called?

3) The genetic material in a neuron, which regulates its chemical activity, is located where?

4) The resting potential in a typical neuron is about:

5) These voltage changes across neuron membranes are small, variable in size, and don't propogate very far.

6) What kind of nerve potentials form only on the axon membrane?

7) In flashlights, electric current is carried by electrons, but in a neuron it is carried by:

8) When the action potentials reach the terminal buttons, they depolarize them causing them to:

9) The primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain is:

10) Cocaine works in the brain by preventing the inactivation of what neurotransmitter?

11) There are about __________ as many glial cells in the brain as there are neurons.

12) Glial cells:

13) Tabes dorsalis:

14) What disease is due to an autoimmune destruction of acetylcholine receptors on muscle fibers?

15) It is sometimes difficult to treat infections in the brain because antibiotics and antivirals have trouble crossing the:

16) Tetrodotoxin, a poison found in the tissues of Japanese puffer fish, affects the nervous system how?

17) If you're at the beach and you see a shark's fin cut the water's surface, which fin is it?

18) The central nervous system (CNS) consists of the:

19) There is a bundle of axons running down your leg from your hip. Which of the following must be the name of this bundle?

20) Synapses made by axons in the spinocerebellar tract would be where?

21) If the cephalic end of the neural tube fails to close during development of the nervous system, the result can be:

22) In what order, from top to bottom, do the major segments of the central nervous system occur?

23) The outermost and toughest of the three membranes that surround the central nervous system is called the:

24) What is found in the subarachnoid space?

25) What function is served by the cerebrospinal fluid?

26) Hydrocephalus occurs when the flow of cerebrospinal fluid is blocked and accumulates in the lateral and third ventricles. Where does that blockage usually occur?

27) The major blood vessel that supplies blood to the forebrain is the:

28) The brain burns about 400 Calories per day, almost all of it in:

29) Which lobe of the forebrain is entirely devoted to vision?

30) Which lobe of the forebrain is often called the executive lobe?

31) In which lobe of the forebrain do we find the primary motor cortex?

32) On the midsagittal view of the brain, roughly right in the middle there is a large, white, approximately C-shaped structure called the corpus callosum. What is this?

33) Which of the following is not part of the limbic system?

34) Lesions here can result in a loss of a sense of fear.

35) The pain of social rejection appears to be registered where in the brain?

36) Damage to these structures in the base of the telencephalon result in movement disorders.

37) These two nuclei in the thalamus relay information from the basal ganglia and cerebellum into the motor cortex.

38) Which of the following is not a function of the hypothalamus?

39) Lesions in what nucleus will result in rats that overeat until they become obese?

40) What structures in the mesencephalon are part of the primitive visual system?

41) Degeneration of neurons with cell bodies in this structure in the mesencephalon results in Parkinson's disease?

42) What two structures make up the metencephalon?

43) The medial lemniscus, a tract we identified in the pons, carries what kind of information?

44) Damage to the cerebellum sometimes results in a patient who looks:

45) Contralateral hemiparesis, spastic paralysis, and absence of muscle atrophy is characteristic of:

46) The large fiber pathways ascending through the spinal cord on its dorsal surface are the:

47) Fibers in the sympathetic nervous system release what neurotransmitter at the target organs?

48) Bell's palsy is the result of damage to which of the cranial nerves?

49) After damage to the visual pathways, half the visual field can be lost. This condition is called:

50) Which of the following is not part of the auditory system?

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