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1) According to Sapolsky, when we ask why does this behavior occur, what we often mean (reading between the lines) is:

2) At one time, if a person having an epileptic seizure struck and injured someone, he could be found guilty of assault and battery. Today we no longer think this way because we believe:

3) Sapolsky attributes (probably correctly) a lot of individual differences in "normal" behavior to differences in:

4) Huntington's disease, a neurological disorder characterized by choreiform and athetotic movements, often begins with the person behaving in socially inappropriate ways due to a failure of:

5) A condition in children called PANDAS, similar to Tourette's sysndrome, can result from:

6) People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have increased metabolic activity in:

7) An apparently mentally healthy person who is ardently religious finally realizes his life's desire to visit the Holy Lands, but when he gets there he's disappointed in what he sees. The person rips up the bedsheets in his room and makes a toga, then goes out to the street corner and begins preaching to people to go back to simpler ways. This syndrome, which occurs about 50 times every year, is called:

8) It is possible (there is a case history) to become obsessed with polka music due to brain damage.

9) Lesions in the frontal lobe are more likely to have motor consequences or to result in motor disorders:

10) Which of the following is NOT part of the frontal cortex?

11) Aphasia due to damage in the frontal lobe is likely to be characterized by:

12) What happens to intelligence after damage to the frontal lobe?

13) People with frontal lobe damage often have difficulty interpreting wise sayings such as, "A rolling stone gathers no moss." This is due to a deficit in:

14) Which of the following is characteristic of patients with frontal lobe damage?

15) People with frontal lobe damage are often easily distracted and have trouble paying attention. They especially tend not to pay attention to novel situations because they are easily distracted.

16) Which of the following is sometimes true of people with frontal lobe damage?

17) Pseudodepression, a syndrome that sometimes results after frontal lobe damage, is most likely to occur if the damage is where?

18) What famous case of pseudopsychopathy have we encountered previously?

19) Auditory hallucinations are due to:

20) People with lesions in the auditory cortex often fail to appreciate tone of voice, or the musical quality of speech. This musical quality is called:

21) Damage to Wernicke's area often results in an aphasia in which the person:

22) Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize:

23) H.M. is the most famous case of anterograde amnesia in which he:

24) H.M.'s difficulties with memory occurred due to destruction of the:

25) Which of the following characterizes temporal lobe personality?

26) A person who has an obsessive preoccupation with religion might be suspected of having some sort of damage or disease in which lobe of the brain?

27) Blindness due to damage in the visual cortex of the occipital lobe is called:

28) Visuospatial agnosia involving topographical disorientation might be expected after damage where?

29) When the visual areas in the occipital lobe are disconnected from the language areas in the temporal lobe, the result might be:

30) Experiments with neural networks learning to recognize patterns in EEG recordings suggest that visual imagery (imagining an object visually) involves activating the visual areas in the same way that actually seeing the object does.

31) The spatial aspects of vision, such as distance, depth, motion, etc., are processed where?

32) The primary somatosensory cortex is in the:

33) Touch sensation from the face is processed where?

34) Gerstmann syndrome is characterized by:

35) The inability to recognize objects by touch is called:

36) Contralateral (or hemispatial) neglect most often occurs after damage where?

37) In the limb apraxias, left limb apraxia with right limb paralysis is most likely to result after damage where?

38) Bilateral limb apraxia is most likely to result after damage where?

39) What sometimes happens to intelligence after damage in the parietal lobe?

40) Language disturbances often result after damage where in the left parietal lobe?

41) Which structure is not part of basal ganglia?

42) The indirect pathway out of the striatum is ultimately ________ in the cortex.

43) An imbalance between the direct and indirect pathways out of the striatum, in which the direct pathway is downregulated and the indirect pathway is upregulated, may result in:

44) Which of the following terms means no movement (and is also the name of a rock band)?

45) Which of the following types of tremor is most likely to result from disease in the basal ganglia?

46) Damage to what structure in the limbic system is most likely to result in seizures?

47) Overfriendliness, inappropriate comments, and lack of awareness of personal space are most likely to occur after damage to what limbic structure?

48) Loss of spatial memory and disorientation are most likely to result after damage to what limbic structure?

49) S.M. almost completely lost her sense of fear and ability to appreciate fear in others after damage to the amygdala caused by:

50) What tract carries inhibitory output from the amygdala to the septal area?

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