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Nervous System Quiz 5 (60 MCQs)

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1. Slurred speech, paralysis, facial drooping are all signs of:
2. Which of the following is a common neurological disorder characterized by unprovoked seizures
3. The olfactory nerve carries impulses associated with:
4. Which part of the peripheral nervous system deals with involuntary activities?
5. Carries messages from the eye to the brain
6. The gap between a neuron and a muscle or between two neurons is called neurologic
7. The brain interprets the increased frequency of nerve signals as a ..... stimulus.
8. Your skull helps protect your brain.
9. This is the lobe of the cerebrum that controls the sense of touch.
10. What is the correct order of message transmission?
11. The major function of your nervous system shown by #2 is:
12. Specialized structures which carry information between your body and the central nervous system
13. Which is the job of the astrocytes
14. Which major part of the brain controls balance and equilibrium?
15. The second largest region of the brain; located at the back of skull
16. What are terminal end fibers?
17. A pro gamer has a reaction time of 0.15 s. While taking a computer reaction time test, a friend talks loudly to the gamer acting as a distraction. The gamer's new reaction time will likely be .....
18. How many muscles are present in our body?
19. The gap or space between two neurons is the: .....
20. Period after an action potential when the axon is unresponsive to another action potential-time between action potentials
21. The brain is the part of our .....
22. Which nervous system increases breathing rate for the "fight or flight" response?
23. The pyramid is found in which part of the brain?
24. Controls automatic functions like breathing, heart rate, body temperature, wake and sleep cycles, etc.
25. The human nervous system is composed of which two parts?
26. The Brain is made of a large mass of
27. The brain dysfunction where blood supply to a region (or regions) of the brain is blocked and vital brain tissue dies, as by a blood clot or a ruptured blood vessel, is called .....
28. The name of the cell that conducts electric impulses through the nervous system
29. Which part of the brain is resposnible for controlling the range of emotions such as pleasure, pain and anger?
30. Also known as the anvil; middle of the three auditory bones of the middle ear
31. If the dorsal root of a spinal nerve carries sensory information what would the ventral root carry?
32. The largest part of the brain is the .....
33. Have one axon and many dendrites ..... very common in brain and spinal cord ..... is what structural classification
34. The ..... found in and around the arachnoid mater that absorbs shock
35. Grey matter consists mainly of axons.
36. Structure that contains photoreceptors such as rods and cones.
37. During the Falling action potential (repolarization) and the undershoot, what channels are opening?
38. What type of neurons send signals from the brain to other parts of the body?
39. The connective tissues that attach skeletal muscles to bones are called .....
40. Which of the following neurotransmitters is responsible for the majority of parasympathetic nerve activity in the body?
41. Sensory neuron is also called
42. Receive stimuli from receptors sites in the sensory organs and carry impulses to the spinal cord and brain
43. The human nervous system can be most generally broken down into the following two major parts:
44. What are the three types of neurons in the nervous system?
45. What is the part of an eye that is covered by a clear membrane?
46. What is the substance that is used to pass a nerve impulse from one neuron to the next?
47. ..... are the messengers of are body.
48. What are primitive reflexes?
49. The tissues of the ear sensory organ ..... to perform a job
50. When a person accidentally touches a hot object in his hand, the information and appropriate immediate action is processed in the brain.
51. Which ion is needed for the fusing of vesicles to the neuron membrane?
52. Which division of the peripheral nervous system receives sensory stimuli and sends them back to the brain?
53. Which germ layer gives rise to the notochord and therefore most of the structures of the brain?
54. Which of the following cells protect the nervous system from infection
55. What does the hypothalamus control?
56. What is the primary role of the parietal lobe in the human brain?
57. The brain is equally divided into parts.
58. When you do not have to think about making a muscle move, it moves on its own, you have no control. This movement is caused by ..... muscles
59. Neurological disorders can affect which of the following?
60. True or False:If the spinal cord was injected with a blue dye, ONLY the brain and spinal cord will be dyed blue.
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