Identify and discuss the roles of three neurotransmitters.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2Explain the concept of hemispheric specialization. Include in your discussion a description of the abilities of each hemisphere and the role of the corpus callosum.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3List the three main regions of the brain and the structures in each.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 4Some individuals experience closed-head injuries in combat or in accidents. What characterizes a closed-head injury?
a. The skull has been penetrated and the brain has been damaged.
b. There is no evidence of any physical damage but there is a psychological disorder.
c. The skull has not been penetrated but there is damage to the brain.
d. The damage has occurred over time as a result of repeated head injuries.
Ques. 5Which type of stroke is due to a blood vessel in the brain suddenly breaking and filling the surrounding tissue with blood, causing cells to die?
a. ischemic stroke
b. neoplasms
c. hemorrhagic stroke
d. aphasic stroke
Ques. 6Which type of stroke occurs when fatty tissue that has built up over years breaks free and then becomes lodged in an artery in the brain?
a. neoplastic stroke
b. hemorrhagic stroke
c. dementing stroke
d. ischemic stroke
Ques. 7Another name for a tumor is ____.
a. hemorrhagia
b. neoplasm
c. ischemia
d. apraxia
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