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1. Tom is addicted to smoking, what does cigarette do to his brain?
2. Jennifer become addictive to pain which was prescribed by doctors. Briefly explain how this kind of addiction can occur.
3. Briefly explain why medical marijuana is beneficial to health which is legal to all 50 states in the US?
4. If a doctor tell a patient that he has stoke in the white matter. What does that mean?
5. What structure is important for the two hemisphere to communicate with each other?
6. What is the role of mossy fiber in cerebellum? What is the major output neurons in cerebellum?
7. In Parkinson patients, briefly explain why basal ganglia is out of control? In Huntington patients, briefly explain why basal ganglia is out of control?
8. Briefly explain why children have higher synaptic plasticity? Rehabilitation helps patients with stroke. These activity will increase long term synaptic plasticity. Speculate one mechanism about what happens to the synapse in these patients's brains.
9. Briefly explain why the elderly get dementia easily (describes neuronal death)