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Nervous System Quiz 248 (60 MCQs)

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1. ( ) are muscles under your conscious control.
2. Which of the following is the transparent portion of the eyeball that covers the iris?
3. Which lobe of the brain is responsible for combining visual images with other sensory experiences?
4. Cells work together to do the same job and make
5. The influx of this ion follows the arrival of an action potential and triggers the release of the neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft.
6. Which organ produces bile that breaks down food?
7. If quad means 4, then quadriplegia would be:
8. A small space between the axon and one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron is called?
9. Which of the following uses voluntary muscles?
10. The right side of your brain is responsible for making you think analytically?
11. If the chemically gated sodium-potassium channels in the postsynaptic membrane were completely blocked,
12. Oligodendrocytes align with nerve fibers and provide myelin
13. Which system sends information through peripheral nerves to your central nervous system?
14. The Sensory Division of the Nervous System is .....
15. The adrenal cortex, secretes steroid hormones but the inner core, the adrenal medulla, is essentially a sympathetic ganglion.
16. Which of the following is not included in the classification of the 3 major parts of the brain?
17. Dementia usually occurs between the ages of 15-35 yrs.
18. Motor Nerves and Cranial Nerves
19. The most numerous of all glial cells are:
20. If you were looking at an individual eyeball during a dissection and it was flat, what likely happened?
21. An action potential will travel along the entire length of the neuron or it doesn't happen at all; there is no partial response
22. What are the two major parts of the human body that make up the central nervous system?
23. A neuron with many short dendrites and one long axon is a
24. How can they be distinguished from other body cells?
25. Nerves in this division of the PNS send messages to your muscles and glands to carry out the orders issued by the brain.
26. Which statement is wrong?
27. These are doughnut-shaped bones that protect our spinal cord.
28. Processes received information and coordinates the body's response
29. Which type of neuron carries impulses from the CNS to the viscera, muscles & glands?
30. True or False. The pituitary gland serves as the connection between the nervous and the endocrine system. Thus, all the information gathered by the brain will be sent to the pituitary in order to activate a certain gland.
31. Which sensory modality is categorized as special senses?
32. Nerves are made up of cells called
33. Following are the functions of the nervous system, EXCEPT .....
34. The areas of the brain with the most precise movements (eg, the fingers) take up
35. The thick-walled blood vessels that transport blood away from the heart.
36. It is a disease that affects the basal ganglia of the brain.(linked to the thalamus)It is associated with a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine.
37. Innermost layer means the deepest(last)layer from within.
38. If the supporting cells of a neuron were compared to a team of people who take care of the president, the people who cook and deliver food would be similar to .....
39. ..... receives messages from other cells
40. Cross-bridges are portions of
41. The two types of nerves are Sensory nerve and Motor nerve
42. Name the three layers of the meninges.
43. Voluntary actions are performed consciously
44. The nervous system is in charge of
45. Which part of the nervous system carries nerves away from the CNS
46. What impact did the brain damage have on Wernicke's patient?
47. The ..... is the main control center of the nervous system
48. What is2 name of medulla
49. Polio infects what system
50. Which part of the human brain is correctly paired with its function?
51. What structures do NOT make up the Central Nervous System?
52. This sensory/afferent subcategory (receptor to CNS) stimulus not consciously perceived like blood pressure
53. This is usually a temporary problem that is caused by trauma to the head
54. How are moveable joints held together?
55. A fever is your body .....
56. If a person all of a sudden feels nervous and afraid, their heart rate increases. This is the effects of the:
57. Parkinson's is associated with a lack of .....
58. Which of the following describes the function of astrocytes?
59. The right side of the brain is for more ..... thinking.
60. Impulse conduction is fastest around neurons that are
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