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Title: Which of the following statements is false?
Post by: Unique12312 on Mar 30, 2018
Which of the following statements is false?
  a. Synaptic potentials may vary in magnitude.
  b. Synaptic integration sums arriving signals over
  space and time.
  c. An excitatory postsynaptic potential is
  hyperpolarizing, whereas an inhibitory
  postsynaptic potential is depolarizing.
  d. Synaptic integration means that signals arriving
  at a neuron can be reinforced or dampened.
  e. Synaptic integration means that signals arriving
  at a neuron can be sent on or suppressed.

Question 2

Synaptic integration means that
  a. positive or excitatory stimuli produce an
  excitatory postsynaptic potential.
  b. the positive and negative ions neutralize each
  other.
  c. excitatory and inhibitory signals are summed in
  a receiving neuron.
  d. the adjacent neurons interact so that excitatory
  and inhibitory stimuli cancel each other out.
  e. all of these occur.


Title: Which of the following statements is false?
Post by: Azhan on Mar 30, 2018
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Title: Which of the following statements is false?
Post by: Unique12312 on Mar 30, 2018
Excellent answers


Title: Which of the following statements is false?
Post by: Azhan on Mar 30, 2018
Thank you