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6. Tonic/slow adapting receptors:
- rapidly adapt to a constant stimulus and turn off, fire again when the stimulus ends
- detects changes in the stimuli
- continue as long as the stimulus persists
- decreases is responsiveness during long lasting stimuli
7. the primary motor cortex is in the:
- occipital lobe
- frontal lobe
- parietal lobe
- temporal lobe
8. synapses can be electrical and chemical?
9. Electrical synapses pass through which cell junction?
- connexin
- tight
- gap
- adhesion
10. which skin receptor is made of free nerve endings?
- meissner corpusles
- hair root plexus
- merkel disc
- pacinian corpuscles
11. the sympathetic pathway originated from:
- a chain of ganglia
- the vegas nerve
- the medulla oblongata
- the spinal cord
12. repetitive firing of neurones cause a strengthening in connections known as long term potentiation
- true
- only after adulthood
- false
- only before adulthood
13. which of these tissues is a weblike fibrous tissue?
- meninges
- arachnoid matter
- dura matter
- pia matter
14. pain can be modulated via:
- adding pain to another region
- chopping the area with pain off
- touch/non painful stimuli
- hypoalgesia
15. Which receptor type detects pressure stimuli
- nociceptors
- chemoreceptors
- mechanoreceptors
- thermoreceptors
16. intracellular ion concentration is high for?
17. The Na+ gate is:
- Open all the time
- Voltage-gated
- G-protein gated
- Impermeable
18. The hippocampus is responsible for?
- explicit and spatial memory
- speech recognition
- learning new information
- explicit memory only
19. which is not a function of CSF?
- allows a different chemical composition from blood
- prevents movement of substances between the brain and blood
- provides cushioning
- reduces weight
20. non-excitable support cells are known as:
- glial cells
- neurones
- endothelium
- eryrthocyte
