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1. The nervous system is divided into the ______ and the ______; the former consists of ______; the
latter______.

Your Answer: CNS; PNS; the nerves around the body; the ventricles
Correct Answer: CNS; PNS; the brain and spinal cord; the nerves around the body

2. The brain's supporting cells are called:

Your Answer: Mitochondria


Correct Answer: Glial cells

3. Which of the following is not a part of a neuron?

Your Answer: Dendrite


Correct Answer: Lobe

4. ______ send signals away from neurons whereas ______ receive signals from other neurons.

Your Answer: Axons; synapses


Correct Answer: Axons; dendrites

5. The point at which the terminal button and another neuron communicate is called ______;
communication here is made possible by the release of ______.

Your Answer: Synapse; hormones


Correct Answer: Synapse; neurotransmitters

6. Each neuron has approximately how many synapses?

Your Answer: Between 10-100


Correct Answer: Between 100-10,000
7. ______, which covers most of the axon, is important because it ______.

Your Answer: Myelin; facilitates the release of neurotransmitter

8. The spaces between the covered parts of an axon are called:

Your Answer: Synaptic clefts


Correct Answer: Nodes of Ranvier

9. Which of the following is an example of a glial cell?

Your Answer: Astrocytes


Correct Answer: All of the above

10. Neurons communicate with each other by sending electrical impulses called:

Your Answer: Neurotransmitters


Correct Answer: Action potentials

11. When the charge across the membrane of a neuron is about ______, the charge is called the
______. This is because there are ______.

Your Answer: 60-70mV; resting potential; more negative ions inside the cell

12. When the neuron expels potassium:

Your Answer: The inside of the cell loses negative ions and produces a positive charge
inside
Correct Answer: The inside of the cell loses positive ions and produces a negative charge
inside

13. When the cell becomes permeable to sodium, the charge changes to ______; this is called ______.

Your Answer: 55mV; hyperpolarisation


Correct Answer: 55mV; depolarisation

14. If sodium continues to enter a cell ______. This is called ______.

Your Answer: The intracellular charge reverses from positive to negative; repolarisation
Correct Answer: The intracellular charge reverses from negative to positive; hyperpolarisation

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15.
The process described in questions 13 and 14 is called:

Your Answer: The resting potential


Correct Answer: The action potential

16. If the stimulation of a cell is strong, the strength of the action potential produced would be:

Your Answer: Weaker than that produced by weak stimulation


Correct Answer: No different to that produced by weak stimulation

17. When depolarisation occurs ______; this allows the release of ______ into the ______.

Your Answer: Calcium channels open; dopamine; cell body


Correct Answer: Calcium channels open; neurotransmitters; synaptic gap

18. The collective name for dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline is:

Your Answer: Anxiolytics


Correct Answer: Amines

19. What happens to excess neurotransmitter produced by presynaptic neurons?

Your Answer: All of it is taken up by postsynaptic neurons


Correct Answer: It is taken back into the presynaptic neuron

20. Neurotransmitters can inhibit or excite neurons. ______, for example, is inhibitory whereas ______
is excitatory.

Your Answer: Serotonin; dopamine


Correct Answer: GABA; glutamate

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