Solutions Manual For Neurophysiology A Conceptual
Approach 5th Edition By Roger Carpenter, Benjamin Reddi
9781444135176 ALL Chapters .
What is the correct statement about the dorsal column?
a. It is stimulated by crude touch and pressure
b. Receptors on Golgi tendon organ is stimulated within the muscle spindle
c. It is stimulated by pain and temperature
d. Alpha-motoneuron goes to the extrafusal fibers
e. Has two points discrimination - ANSWER: e. Has two points discrimination
Where does neurogenesis take place?
a. Hippocampus
b. Spinal cord
c. Frontal lobe
d. Cerebellum
e. Thalamus - ANSWER: a. Hippocampus
Kluver-Bucy syndrome is:
a. Lesion of ventral hypothalamus
b. Loss of fear as well as hypersexuality
c. Calmness
d. Increased emotional expression
e. Lesion to hippocampus - ANSWER: b. Loss of fear as well as hypersexuality
What is the major role of the astrocytes?
a. Produce myelination of the axons
b. Protection of neurons and production of enzymatic CSF
c. Support of neural cells
d. Interconnecting the neurons
e. Produce the blood-brain barrier - ANSWER: e. Produce the blood-brain barrier
What is the definition of the RP (receptor potential)?
a. "All or none" principle
b. Amplitude increase with increased intensity of stimulus
c. Frequency increase with increased intensity of stimulus
d. Amplitude decrease with increased intensity of stimulus
e. Frequency decrease with increased intensity of stimulus - ANSWER: b. Amplitude increase with
increased intensity of stimulus
What is the correct definition of declarative (explicit) memory?
a. Memory not involving the hippocampus
b. Not associated with consciousness (awareness)
c. Associated with consciousness (awareness)
d. Associated with skills and habits
e. Divided into associative and non-associative learning - ANSWER: c. Associated with consciousness
(awareness)
What structures passes through the medial brainstem?
a. Cerebral peduncle
b. Reticular formation
c. Dorsal column
d. Substantia nigra - ANSWER: b. Reticular formation
, What is typical for Alzheimer's disease?
a. Remembering new events (short-term memory) and forgetting former events
b. The number of neurons is intact but the mediators for these are destroyed
c. Neurofibrillary tangles inside the neurons caused by hyperphosphorylation of tau
d. Poor long term memory, but intact short term memory
e. Neurons are intact but destruction of synapses - ANSWER: c. Neurofibrillary tangles inside the
neurons caused by hyperphosphorylation of tau
Which senses are carried through the dorsal column?
a. Pain and temperature
b. Crude touch and pressure
c. Fine touch, space localization and pressure
d. Vibration and pressure
e. Itching and fine touch - ANSWER: d. Vibration and pressure
The reticular formation:
a. Controls voluntary movement
b. Controls involuntary movements
c. Controls levels of consciousness
d. Determine whether stimulus is important enough to wake up
e. Is located in the primary motor cortex - ANSWER: c. Controls levels of consciousness
What is true for mirror neurons?
a. Implicated in voluntary movement
b. Located in parieto-occipital lobe
c. Fire when observing someone else perform a movement
d. Responsible only for emotion recognition
e. All above are correct - ANSWER: c. Fire when observing someone else perform a movement
Reflex arc of inverse stretch reflex:
a. Afferent fibers are 1b fibers
b. Contracted muscle contracted, antagonist muscle relaxed
c. Contain four elements
d. Protects the body from injury
e. Is a monosynaptic reflex - ANSWER: a. Afferent fibers are 1b fibers
1. Which hormones inhibit the hunger center in the brain?
a. Ghrelin
b. Melanin
c. Neuropeptide Y
d. B-endorphins
e. Leptin - ANSWER: e. Leptin
The dynamic part of the stretch reflex is responsible for:
a. Maintaining the muscle tone as a static response
b. Rapid muscle contraction to oppose sudden changes in muscle length
c. Stretching the muscle halfway
d. A weak or slow muscle contraction
e. Rapid response due to changes in primary endings on nuclear chain fibers - ANSWER: b. Rapid
muscle contraction to oppose sudden changes in muscle length
Neurotrophins are:
a. Produced by neurons during neuron degeneration
b. Proteins produced by glial cells and inflammatory cells
c. Large proteins that maintain function and growth of neurons
d. Cannot induce differentiation of progenitor cells to form neurons
Approach 5th Edition By Roger Carpenter, Benjamin Reddi
9781444135176 ALL Chapters .
What is the correct statement about the dorsal column?
a. It is stimulated by crude touch and pressure
b. Receptors on Golgi tendon organ is stimulated within the muscle spindle
c. It is stimulated by pain and temperature
d. Alpha-motoneuron goes to the extrafusal fibers
e. Has two points discrimination - ANSWER: e. Has two points discrimination
Where does neurogenesis take place?
a. Hippocampus
b. Spinal cord
c. Frontal lobe
d. Cerebellum
e. Thalamus - ANSWER: a. Hippocampus
Kluver-Bucy syndrome is:
a. Lesion of ventral hypothalamus
b. Loss of fear as well as hypersexuality
c. Calmness
d. Increased emotional expression
e. Lesion to hippocampus - ANSWER: b. Loss of fear as well as hypersexuality
What is the major role of the astrocytes?
a. Produce myelination of the axons
b. Protection of neurons and production of enzymatic CSF
c. Support of neural cells
d. Interconnecting the neurons
e. Produce the blood-brain barrier - ANSWER: e. Produce the blood-brain barrier
What is the definition of the RP (receptor potential)?
a. "All or none" principle
b. Amplitude increase with increased intensity of stimulus
c. Frequency increase with increased intensity of stimulus
d. Amplitude decrease with increased intensity of stimulus
e. Frequency decrease with increased intensity of stimulus - ANSWER: b. Amplitude increase with
increased intensity of stimulus
What is the correct definition of declarative (explicit) memory?
a. Memory not involving the hippocampus
b. Not associated with consciousness (awareness)
c. Associated with consciousness (awareness)
d. Associated with skills and habits
e. Divided into associative and non-associative learning - ANSWER: c. Associated with consciousness
(awareness)
What structures passes through the medial brainstem?
a. Cerebral peduncle
b. Reticular formation
c. Dorsal column
d. Substantia nigra - ANSWER: b. Reticular formation
, What is typical for Alzheimer's disease?
a. Remembering new events (short-term memory) and forgetting former events
b. The number of neurons is intact but the mediators for these are destroyed
c. Neurofibrillary tangles inside the neurons caused by hyperphosphorylation of tau
d. Poor long term memory, but intact short term memory
e. Neurons are intact but destruction of synapses - ANSWER: c. Neurofibrillary tangles inside the
neurons caused by hyperphosphorylation of tau
Which senses are carried through the dorsal column?
a. Pain and temperature
b. Crude touch and pressure
c. Fine touch, space localization and pressure
d. Vibration and pressure
e. Itching and fine touch - ANSWER: d. Vibration and pressure
The reticular formation:
a. Controls voluntary movement
b. Controls involuntary movements
c. Controls levels of consciousness
d. Determine whether stimulus is important enough to wake up
e. Is located in the primary motor cortex - ANSWER: c. Controls levels of consciousness
What is true for mirror neurons?
a. Implicated in voluntary movement
b. Located in parieto-occipital lobe
c. Fire when observing someone else perform a movement
d. Responsible only for emotion recognition
e. All above are correct - ANSWER: c. Fire when observing someone else perform a movement
Reflex arc of inverse stretch reflex:
a. Afferent fibers are 1b fibers
b. Contracted muscle contracted, antagonist muscle relaxed
c. Contain four elements
d. Protects the body from injury
e. Is a monosynaptic reflex - ANSWER: a. Afferent fibers are 1b fibers
1. Which hormones inhibit the hunger center in the brain?
a. Ghrelin
b. Melanin
c. Neuropeptide Y
d. B-endorphins
e. Leptin - ANSWER: e. Leptin
The dynamic part of the stretch reflex is responsible for:
a. Maintaining the muscle tone as a static response
b. Rapid muscle contraction to oppose sudden changes in muscle length
c. Stretching the muscle halfway
d. A weak or slow muscle contraction
e. Rapid response due to changes in primary endings on nuclear chain fibers - ANSWER: b. Rapid
muscle contraction to oppose sudden changes in muscle length
Neurotrophins are:
a. Produced by neurons during neuron degeneration
b. Proteins produced by glial cells and inflammatory cells
c. Large proteins that maintain function and growth of neurons
d. Cannot induce differentiation of progenitor cells to form neurons
