NEURO PHYSIOLOGY

7. Which of the following is not a function of the

1. The repolarization phase of the action potential astrocytes?
is due to: a. Forms glial scars in areas of injury
a. Diffusion of chloride into the cell
b. Buffering of potassium concentration
b. Diffusion of potassium out of the cell c. Transport of CSF
c. Diffusion of sodium into the cell d. Metabolism of Nerotransmitter
d. Activation of the sodium-potassium pump
8. Insulin will increase membrane permeability to
2. Release of neurotransmitters from the nerve glucose in which of the following organs:
terminal by exocytosis would be blocked most a. Brain
effectively by preventing the: b. Muscles
a. Propagation of the action potential into the c. Kidney
nerve terminal membrane d. Intestines
b. Flow of Na+ into the nerve terminal
membrane 9. The hormone that stimulates testosterone
c. Flow of K+ out of the nerve terminal secretion in males:
membrane a. Growth hormone
d. Flow of calcium into the nerve terminal b. Estrogen
membrane c. FSH
d. LH
3. Cranial nerves are what type of Neuron?
a. Unipolar 10. The most common primary CNS tumor in
b. Bipolar
children:
c. Multipolar a. Medulloblastoma
d. None b. Astrocytis
c. Astrocytoma
4. Within the cerebellar cortex is what type of d. None of these
Neuron
a. Golgi 1 11. Primary lipid of myelin:
b. Golgi 2 a. Cerebroside
c. Both b. Sphingomyelin
d. Neither c. Galactocerebroside
d. Galactoside
5. What organelle is particularly increased in
Neurons? 12. The Resting membrane potential is around:
a. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticilum a. -45 mV
b. Rough Endoplasmic Reticilum b. -55 mV
c. Mitochondria c. -65 mV
d. Ribosomes
d. -75 mV

6. Which of the following lines the floor of the 3rd 13. The following ions are usually higher outside of
ventricle of the brain? the cell EXCEPT?
a. Ependymocytes a. Chloride
b. Choroidal cells b. Potassium
c. Tanycytes c. Sodium
d. Microglia
 d. Calcium c. Occipital lobe
d. Temporal lobe
14. What ion triggers the release of vesicles
containing neurotransmitters? 21. Which of the following is responsible for
a. Calcium planning of coordinated movements like tasks
b. Sodium that require 2 hands.
c. Chloride a. Posterior parietal cortex
d. Potassium b. Premotor cortex
c. Supplementary Motor Area
15. This drug is given in Parkinson’s Disease to d. Primary Sensory Cortex
prevent the enzymatic degradation of
Dopamine 22. The concentration of acetylcholine in the
a. Selegiline synaptic cleft is determined by:
b. Bromocriptine a. The rate of active uptake of the transmitter
c. L-DOPA by the surrounding neurons
d. Amantidine b. The amount of transmitter released by the
presynaptic nerve terminal
16. GABA is what type of neurotransmitter? c. The rate of enzymatic breakdown of the
a. Amino acid transmitter in the synaptic cleft
b. Monoamines d. The diffusion rate of the transmitter from
c. Peptide the presynaptic nerve terminal to the
d. None of These synaptic cleft

17. What is known as the primitive brain? 23. Which of the following is NOT usually a function
a. Cerebellum of the Left Cerebral Hemisphere?
b. Brainstem a. Speech
c. Cerebral cortex b. Verbal Memory
d. Lateral and horizontal head rotation c. Math
d. Art
18. The right hemisphere of the Parietal Lobe is
responsible for what? 24. The cingulate gyrus is associated with:
a. Symbolic functions a. Autonomic functions
b. Spoken language b. Long term memory
c. Language comprehension c. Reward
d. Picture identification d. A and B only

19. The Temporal is responsible for which of the 25. The main mechanism that will deactivate
following? acetylcholine is by:
a. Retention of visual memory a. Methylation by acetyltransferase
b. Language comprehension b. Hydrolysis by acetycholinesterase
c. Depth perception c. Diffusion away from the neuroeffector
d. Body orientation junction
d. Reuptake by the pre-juctional fiber
20. The primary motor cortex is in the:
a. Frontal lobe
b. Parietal lobe
26. Which of the following is responsible for d. Neither
conversion of short-term memory to long-term
memory? 33. When processing information, assembling and
a. Hypothalamus integrating it in the brain is called?
b. Hippocampus a. Bottom Up Processing
c. Mammillary bodies b. Top Down Processing
d. Frontal lobe c. Parallel Processing
d. Just Noticeable Difference
27. True of Dissociative amnesia
a. Also known as Organic Amnesia 34. The ability to visually identify objects by verbal
b. Loss of memory about a specific event cues and implication is called?
c. Caused by a transient reduction of cerebral a. Bottom Up Processing
blood flow b. Top Down Processing
d. Due to Thiamine/Vitamin B1 deficiency c. Parallel Processing
d. Just Noticeable Difference
28. Which of the following Spinal tracts conveys
proprioception? 35. The minimum level of stimulus intensity needed
a. Anterior Spinothalamic to detect a stimulus half the time:
b. Lateral Spinothalamic a. Subliminal threshold
c. Posterior Spinothalamic b. Subthreshold
d. None of These c. Absolute threshold
d. None of these
29. Where does the decussation of impulses take
place? 36. The ability to detect the minimum difference in
a. Medulla Oblongata stimuli.
b. Cerebellum a. Bottom Up Processing
c. Spinal cord white matter b. Top Down Processing
d. Thalamus c. Parallel Processing
d. Just Noticeable Difference
30. Which of the following conveys pain?
a. Anterior Spinothalamic 37. When standing beside a loud speaker, the
b. Lateral Spinothalamic receptor that detects Sound Pressure Levels in
c. Posterior Spinothalamic the skin are:
d. None of These a. Meissner
b. Merkels
31. Which of the following spinal tracts transmits c. Pacinian
impulses to control muscle tone and posture? d. Ruffini
a. Tectospinal
b. Rubrospinal 38. Detects muscle stretch:
c. Vestibulospinal a. Annulospiral
d. Reticulospinal b. Golgi
c. Flower spray endings
32. Making sense out of sensory input is called: d. All of the above
a. Sensation
b. Perception 39. Which of the following types of pain is well
c. Both localized?
 a. Pricking a. Parietal in nature
b. Dull, throbbing b. Visceral in nature
c. Burning c. Both
d. Crushing d. Neither

40. Which of the following is released from 47. At what level in the spinal cord is pain in
platelets during injury? appendicitis transmitted to:
a. Bradykinin a. T7
b. Substance P b. T8
c. Prostaglandin c. T9
d. Serotonin d. T10

41. Which of the following is responsible for pain 48. Increased stimulus strength means a larger
after Tissue Damage? receptor potential and more frequent action
a. Bradykinin potential firing.
b. Substance P a. True
c. Prostaglandin b. False
d. Serotonin
49. An ice cube on the skin give rise to sensation of
42. Headache that is localized around one eye is: temperature only.
a. Tension a. True
b. Migraine b. False
c. Sinus
d. Cluster 50. A large receptive field has:
a. Less precise perception
43. Possbily caused by Vitamin B depletion: b. More precise perception
a. Migraine c. A variable response depending on the
b. Meningitis stimulus
c. Alcoholic Headache d. None of these
d. Tension Headache
51. Nature of a sensationand the type of reaction
44. What the most common cause of headaches? generated vary according to the destination of
a. Release of prostaglandins from a damages sensory impulses in the CNS
blood vessel. a. True
b. Vasodilation and low serotonin b. False
c. Occlusion of a blood vessel
d. Overstimulation from neural impulses 52. Motor signals fire upward to the CNS.
a. True
45. Which of the following is associated with a b. False
prodrome before the actual headache?
a. Migraine 53. Locating sensation from internal organs is less
b. Meningitis precise than the skin because there are fewer
c. Alcoholic Headache afferent neurons in the internal organs and
d. Tension Headache each has a larger receptive field.
a. True
46. Sharp pain in the body is most likely to be: b. False
 60. Processing of information ends in the primary
54. The concept that the magnitude of a subjective cortex
sensation increases proportional to the a. True
logarithm of the stimulus intensity; two nearly b. False
identical stimuli (for example, two similar
weights) and tested whether they could notice 61. Which structure of the Nervous System is
a difference between them. associated with Third Order Neurons?
a. Steven’s Power Law a. Spinal Cord
b. Weber-Fechner’s Law b. Cerebral cortex
c. Both c. Thalamus
d. Neither d. Wiernicke’s area

55. The more the receptor potential rises above the 62. In Somnabulism there is absolutely no
threshold level, the greater action potential consciousness at all.
frequency. a. True
a. True b. False
b. False
63. Fine Touch is coveyed via this pathway:
56. Receptors adapt either partially or completely a. Dorsal Column
to any constant stimulus after a period of time. b. Lateral Spinothalamic
a. True c. Anterior Spinothalamic
b. False d. Posterior Spinothalamic

57. Drugs with the potential for abuse have the 64. The loss of the ability to identify objects by
following characteristics: means of touch with the eyes closed is called:
a. They deplete neuronal stores of a. Aphasia
monoamines b. Agnosia
b. They block dopamine receptors c. Astereognosis
c. They stimulate receptors in the reward d. Agraphia
center of the limbic system
d. They block electrical self-stimulation in 65. These are the largest areas of the Sensory
experimental animals homunculus EXCEPT:
a. Hands
58. Which of the following nerve fibers transmits b. Face
crude touch? c. Tongue
a. A-Alpha d. Fingers
b. A-Delta
c. A-Beta 66. Sharp and fast pain in conveyed via which
d. A-Gamma pathway:
a. Neopinothalamic
59. Signals are not subject to modification at the b. Paleopinothalamic
various synapses along the sensory pathways. c. Both
a. True d. Neither
b. False
67. Seen in Neurosyphilis
a. Brown Sequard syndrome
 b. Syringomyelia 74. The shortest rhythm of biological clocks.
c. Tabes dorsalis a. Circadian
d. None of these b. Ultradian
c. Infradian
68. Which of the following processes is “all or none: d. None of these
in character?
a. Resting potential 75. Destruction of the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
b. Transmitter release results in loss of which of the following?
c. Contraction strength a. Circadian
d. Action potential b. Ultradian
c. Infradian
69. The Diencephalon is important because of d. None of these
which structure?
a. Cerebellum 76. What neurotransmitter is elaborated from
b. Hypothalamus raphe nuclei?
c. Broca’s area a. Serotonin
d. Thalamus b. GABA
c. Dopamine
70. Shivering is mediated by which part of the d. Melatonin
hypothalamus?
a. Paraventricular 77. What neurotransmitter comes from the
b. Posterior Substancia Nigra?
c. Preoptic a. Serotonin
d. Supraoptic b. GABA
c. Dopamine
71. Satiety is achieved by inhibition of which part of d. Melatonin
the Hypothalamus?
a. Posterior 78. What type of EEG wave can be seen in adults
b. Mammillary suffering from emotional distress?
c. Lateral a. Alpha
d. Anterior b. Beta
c. Delta
72. Sympathetic responses are mediated by which d. Theta
part of the hypothalamus?
a. Posterior 79. What waves are seen in fully awake and alert
b. Mammillary individuals?
c. Lateral a. Alpha
d. Anterior b. Beta
c. Delta
73. The sense of tranquility is mediated by which d. Theta
part of the hypothalamus?
a. Paraventricular 80. Mental concentration is associated with what
b. Mammillary type of rhythm?
c. Supraoptic a. Alpha
d. Ventromedial b. Beta
c. Delta
 d. Theta 88. Sensitization occurs when the response is
enhanced in the even that an unpleasant or
81. Stage 4 Sleep is associated with which of the otherwise strong stimulus is given.
following? a. True
a. Alpha b. False
b. Beta
c. Delta 89. What type of memory is not associated with
d. Theta awareness?
a. Explicit
82. What type of brain waves is found in the EEG of b. Implicit
a normal adult who is awake, quiet and in a c. Both
resting state of cerebration? d. Neither
a. Alpha
b. Beta 90. The presence of Old Memories is called
c. Theta Memory Traces.
d. Delta a. True
b. False
83. What is the most common cause of Sleep
Apnea? 91. What structure is postulated to be important in
a. Snoring memory consolidation?
b. Genetic a. Hypothalamus
c. Obstruction b. Mammillary bodies
d. None of these c. Hippocampus
d. Amygdala
84. The Papez circuit dissociates emotions from
experience. 92. Which of the following is not a physiologic
a. True evidence of long term memory
b. False a. Increase in vesicle release sites for secretion
of transmitter substance
85. Lesions of the Hyppocampus cause retrograde b. Increase in number of transmitter vesicles
amnesia released
a. True c. Increased sensitivity of receptors to
b. False neurotransmitters
d. Changes in structures of the dendritic
86. A striking feature of Kluver Bucy Syndrome is spines that permit transmission of stronger
Hypersexuality. signals
a. True
b. False 93. Main function of Neuroglial cells, EXCEPT:
a. Maintenance of CNS homeostasis
87. Lesions in the bilateral posterior orbitofrontal b. Insulate neurons from each other
cortex of the limbic system results in: c. Facilitate salutatory conduction
a. Kluver Bucy Syndrome d. Destroys pathogens
b. Loss of sex drive
c. Insomnia 94. Brodmann Area 22 is:
d. Extreme Rage a. Wiernicke’s Area
b. Broca’s Area
 c. Arcuate Fasciculus
d. Angular Gyrus

95. Expressive aphasia is a lesion in:

a. Wiernicke’s Area
b. Broca’s Area
c. Arcuate Fasciculus
d. Angular Gyrus

96. Anomic aphasia is a lesion in:

a. Wiernicke’s Area
b. Broca’s Area
c. Arcuate Fasciculus
d. Angular Gyrus

97. What cell buffers the potassium levels in the

CNS?
a. Microglia
b. Oligodendrocytes
c. Astrocytes
d. Ependymal Cells

98. Lesions in the bilateral anterior cingulate and

subcallosal gyri of the limbic system results in:
a. Kluver Bucy Syndrome
b. Loss of sex drive
c. Insomnia
d. Extreme Rage

99. This occurs predominantly in infants.

a. Alpha waves
b. Beta waves
c. Delta waves
d. Theta waves

100. Paraventricular nuclei evokes fear and

feelings of punishment and aversion
a. True
b. False