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Table of Contents

• Studying the Nervous System

Unit I. Neural Signaling

• Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
• Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
• Ion Channels and Transporters
• Synaptic Transmission
• Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors
• Molecular Signaling within Neurons
• Synaptic Plasticity

Unit II. Sensation and Sensory Processing

9. The Somatosensory System: Touch and Proprioception

• Pain

11. Vision: The Eye

• Central Visual Pathways
• The Auditory System
• The Vestibular System
• The Chemical Senses

Unit III. Movement and Its Central Control

• Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control
• Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord
• Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
• Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum
• Eye Movements and Sensory Motor Integration
• The Visceral Motor System

Unit IV. The Changing Brain

• Early Brain Development
• Construction of Neural Circuits

24. Circuit Differentiation: Intrinsic Factors and Sex Differences

• Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Developing Brain
• Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System

Unit V. Complex Brain Functions and Cognitive Neuroscience

• Cognitive Functions and the Organization of the Cerebral Cortex
• Cortical States
• Attention NEW!
• Memory
• Emotion
• Thinking, Planning, and Deciding NEW!
• Speech and Language
• Development and Evolution of Cognitive Functions NEW!
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Test Bank to accompany Neuroscience, Sixth Edition Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White

Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System

Multiple Choice

• Which part of DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA?
• Exon
• Intron
• Promoter
• Non-coding DNA
• Regulatory DNA

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

• Genomics is the analysis of
• coding DNA sequences for a species.
• regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism and a species.
• coding and regulatory DNA sequences for a species.
• coding and regulatory DNA sequences for an individual organism.
• coding and regulatory DNA of an individual organism or a species.

Answer: e

Textbook Reference: Genetics and Genomics

Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

• Which of Camillo Golgi’s contributions enabled Santiago Ramón y Cajal to make

observations that suggested that nerve cells are discrete entities?

• Articulation of the neuron doctrine
• Identifying the organelle later called the Golgi apparatus
• Development of a staining method based on impregnation with silver salts
• Improving the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria
• Articulation of the reticular theory of nerve cell communication

Answer: c

Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

• The major proponent(s) of the neuron doctrine was(were)
• Camillo Golgi.
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
• Charles Sherrington.
• Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Charles Sherrington.

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• Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

Answer: d

Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System

Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

• Which function is a characteristic primarily of neurons only, and not glia?
• Transmits action potentials
• Supports electrical signals
• Repairs the nervous system
• Prevents regeneration of the nervous system
• Produces myelin

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System

Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

• In which part of a neuron would most of the endoplasmic reticulum be concentrated?
• Postsynaptic terminal
• Presynaptic terminal
• Axon
• Cell body
• Dendrite

Answer: d

Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System

Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

• Which intracellular component facilitates the processes of endocytosis and exocytosis

underlying synaptic communication?

• Mitochondria
• Endoplasmic reticulum
• Cytoskeleton
• Golgi apparatus
• Nucleus

Answer: c

Textbook Reference: Cellular Components of the Nervous System

Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding

• Most neurons have
• one axon hillock (initial segment).
• multiple axon hillocks (initial segments).
• one dendrite.
• one axon hillock (initial segment) and one dendrite.
• multiple axon hillocks (initial segments) and one dendrite.

Answer: a

Textbook Reference: Neurons

Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering

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