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Nervous System Quiz 193 (60 MCQs)

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1. Controls the secretion of endocrine hormones.
2. A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for hearing and language
3. Which of these is most closely related to metabolism, stress and excitement?
4. ..... provides protection, nutrition to the bone, and the capacity for bone repair.
5. Small phagocytic cells that are especially obvious in damaged tissue in the CNS are the
6. The branched end portions of the axons
7. Specialized cells of the nervous system are called:
8. Reflexes that send involuntary stimuli
9. If a person is left-handed, which side of their brain is more likely the dominant side?
10. Type of neuron that sends nerve impulse to muscles
11. Series of electrical signals that is generated in the nerve cells in a response to stimuli.
12. What type of response is a reflex?
13. Nervous sensation
14. ..... are a subgroup of sensory nerve endings that respond to mechanical stimuli such as touch, pressure, and vibration.
15. At what level do the majority of nerve fibers cross from the right to the left?
16. What are the two divisions of the human nervous system?
17. One of many thin parts that control movement and feeling by carrying messages between the brain and other parts of the body.
18. Dendrites are the receiving or input portions of a neuron.
19. The neuronal pool where the input is transmitted simultaneously along several neuron pathways to a common postsynaptic cell is called
20. Picks up vibrations from the ear drum and carries them to the inner ear.
21. Tough, fibrous, opaque, white protion of the eye.
22. The nervous system is responsible for control and communication in the body.
23. What is an outside event that causes a response in the nervous system?
24. The gap between the branches extending from a neuron's axon that sends a signal to the next neuron
25. Neurotransmitters are released
26. Consider this pathway:epinephrine $\rightarrow$ receptor $\rightarrow$ cAMP $\rightarrow$ protein kinase $\rightarrow$ transcription factors. Identify the secondary messenger.
27. Which part of the nervous system is responsible for transmitting signals between the brain and the rest of the body?
28. What binds together and insulates CNS neurons?
29. Which are the three parts of the brainstem?
30. Read the following decide if it is a neuron or neuroglia. "insulation"
31. As neurons assume their roles as communicating links of the nervous system, they lose their ability to divide. What characteristic of the neuron is this?
32. The bridge between the cerebrum and cerebellum is known as the .....
33. Motor neurons relay information from ....., telling your body to move.
34. The most common neuron structure are:
35. What does letter AB represent?
36. The olfactory recptors are examples of:
37. This part of the body is directly connected to the biological processes of tasting, touch sensation, smelling, and hearing:
38. Peripheral Nerves are part of the .....
39. Taste and smell are similar because:
40. Which type of receptors are activated by a change in temperature?
41. Parts Of Nervous System
42. As the strength of a depolarizing stimulus to an axon is increased,
43. What nervous system controls our voluntary movements and reactions?
44. Two cerebral hemispheres are connected by a bridge of white matter within. It is called .....
45. What is cerebral vascular accident (CVA)
46. Where can we find Nissl body?
47. The part of the nervous system that consists of nerves that branch out from the spinal cord and connect to other body parts
48. Which structures make up the Central Nervous System?
49. Assertion:Corpus callosum is present inspace between the duramater and piamater.Reason:It serves to maintain the constantintracranial pressure.
50. Astrocytes, which help form the blood-brain barrier, are excitable cells.
51. Is the control center for recognition and analysis of hunger, thirst, fatigue, anger, and body temperature.
52. What is the function of motor (efferent) nuerons
53. What are the two regions of the inner ear responsible for hearing and balance?
54. What is the change in polarity of a neuron that causes the transmission of electrical impulses?
55. What is the tropism?
56. The cells responsible for color vision in vertebrates are called
57. Cones (light receptors in eyes) are responsible for detecting .....
58. Gaps in the myelin sheath are called Nodes of .....
59. What is the outer layer of the brain where conscious thinking occurs called?
60. The patient is .....
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