Discuss the most common motor-neuron disease.
What will be an ideal response?
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Question 2) An electroencephalogram
a. is primarily a record of action potential activity in the cerebral cortex
b. represents the momentary collective postsynaptic activity in the cerebral cortex
c. displays larger brain waves when the eyes are open than when the eyes are closed
d. displays impulse activity deep inside the brain
e. is useful in all of the ways mentioned above
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Question 3) Give an exception to the general rule of dual reciprocal innervation by the autonomic nervous system.
What will be an ideal response?
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Question 4) Select the incorrect association.
a. occipital lobe/saying your name
b. occipital lobe/seeing an apple
c. parietal lobe/feeling off balance
d. parietal lobe/feeling a bug on your arm
e. temporal lobe/listening to a concert
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Question 5) Describe sympathetic dominance.
What will be an ideal response?
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Question 6) The left cerebral hemisphere normally excels in all of the following, except
a. musical ability
b. verbal tasks
c. math skills
d. logical and analytical tasks
e. language ability
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Question 7) Myasthenia gravis is a(n) ____________________ condition in which the body erroneously produces antibodies against its motor end-plate ____________________ receptor-channels.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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Question 8) If a person suffers a severe blow to the side of the head slightly above the ear, it is closest to the ____ lobe of the cerebral cortex.
a. frontal
b. occipital
c. parietal
d. prefrontal
e. temporal
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Question 9) Death from organophosphates results from ____________________ failure because the ____________________ remains in a depolarization block and cannot be stimulated to contract again.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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Question 10) The corpus callosum interconnects the
a. brain stem and cerebellum
b. brain stem and diencephalon
c. hypothalamus and thalamus
d. two cerebral hemispheres
e. cerebellum and spinal cord
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