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• Part 1 Foundations
• Chapter 1 Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future
• Chapter 2 Neurons and Glia
• Chapter 3 The Neuronal Membrane at Rest
• Chapter 4 The Action Potential
• Chapter 5 Synaptic Transmission
• Chapter 6 Neurotransmitter Systems
• Chapter 7 The Structure of the Nervous System
• Appendix An Illustrated Guide to Human Neuroanatomy
• Part 2 Sensory and Motor Systems
• Chapter 8 The Chemical Senses
• Chapter 9 The Eye
• Chapter 10 The Central Visual System
• Chapter 11 The Auditory and Vestibular Systems
• Chapter 12 The Somatic Sensory System
• Chapter 13 Spinal Control of Movement
• Chapter 14 Brain Control of Movement
• Part 3 The Brain and Behavior
• Chapter 15 Chemical Control of the Brain and Behavior
• Chapter 16 Motivation
• Chapter 17 Sex and the Brain
• Chapter 18 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
• Chapter 19 Brain Rhythms and Sleep
• Chapter 20 Language
• Chapter 21 The Resting Brain, Attention, and Consciousness
• Chapter 22 Mental Illness
• Part 4 The Changing Brain
• Chapter 23 Wiring the Brain
• Chapter 24 Memory Systems
• Chapter 25 Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory




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,• Chapter 1 Neuroscience: Past, Present, and Future


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A) Understanding the brain is a focused area in natural science with the brain f f f f f f f f f f f f


serving as the common point of focus.
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B) Understanding the brain requires knowledge about many things, from the f f f f f f f f f


structure of the water molecule to the electrical and chemical properties of
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the brain.
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brain.
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D) Understanding the brain requires the analysis of one approach at a time to f f f f f f f f f f f f


yield a new synthesis.
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2. Galen's study of sheep brains was the basis for a theory of brain function that
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fprevailed for almost 1500 years. Which of the following represents this view?
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fChoose the correct option.
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A) The heart as the center of intellect and the brain as the cooling system
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B) Localization of brain function in the cerebrum and cerebellum f f f f f f f f


C) Mind–brain duality f


D) Parceling the cerebrum into lobes f f f f




3. What is “mind–brain problem”? Choose the correct option.
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A) Individually, human mental capacities exist in the mind that is outside the f f f f f f f f f f f


brain.
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B) The mind is the same as the brain.
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C) Both animals and people possess intellect and a God-given soul.
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D) The pineal gland is a spiritual entity.
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4. What notion was displaced by the concept of nerves being described as wires?
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fChoose the correct option.
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A) Nerves are channels that communicate with the brain by the movement of
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fluids.
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B) Muscles can be twitched when nerves are stimulated electrically and the
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brain itself may generate electricity.
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C) Signals to the muscles causing movement use the same wires as those that
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register sensations from the skin.
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D) Nerves conduct electrical signals to and from the brain.
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5. The combined work of Bell and Magendie revealed a fundamental fact about
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, the spinal nerves. Choose the correct option.
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A) Spinal nerves are myelinated.
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B) Spinal nerves are bundles of sensory and motor nerves, and in each sensory
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and motor nerve fiber, transmission is strictly one-way.
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C) Spinal nerves are not hollow tubes carrying fluid.
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D) Both humans and animals have spinal nerves.
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