Reference no: EM133380775
Questions
1. Type of signals that sensory receptor neurons can use to transmit information
A. Graded potentials
B. Release of neuromodulators
C. Tonic Firing
D. All of the above
2. Huntington's disease involves
A. Loss of neurons in the striatum causing more inhibition of thalamic projections to motor cortex
B. . Loss of neurons in the basal forebrain causing more inhibition of thalamic projections to motor cortex
C. Loss of neurons in the basal forebrain causing less inhibition of thalamic projections to motor cortex
D. Loss of neurons in the striatum causing less inhibition of thalamic projections to motor cortex
3. If you are unable to produce thyroid stimulating hormone, what physiological change is likely to happen? Where is this hormone normally produced and what is its target. (do goiters/cretenism/mental retardation happen without thyroid stimulating hormone?)
4. If you have lost all your circumvallate papillae on your tongue, how would your taste change? Please describe which taste is most likely going to change.
5. Is it possible to selectively lose hearing to one particular frequency of sound? What are two hypothetical situations that could cause this to happen? *think about sound processing in the periphery and the central nervous system
6. Explain use dependent plasticity? What experiment can be used to show this and what changes in the brain?