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When u r studying & u cant remember a thing, which AREA of ur brain has let u down?
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Your anterior association area.
Anterior association area is a multimodel association area of the cerebral cortex and deals with your intellect, memory and complex learning abilities including recall, personality and judgement. |
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Where is Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH) synthesized?
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Hypothalamus.
It is made in the hypothalamus then stored in the posterior pituitary gland. |
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A drop in blood glucose levels stimulates the pancreas to produce which hormone?
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Glucagon
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What is the simplest form of Endocrine control?
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humoral stimuli
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Which lobe is the visual association area in?
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Occipital
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What are the deeper grooves that separate large regions of the brain called?
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Fissures
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What does diencephalon NOT contain?
a.Thalamus b. Perithalamus c. Hypothalamus d. Epithalamus |
Perithalamus
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What are the 3 things that protect the brain?
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Blood-brain barrier, cerebrospinal fluid, meninges
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What is the process of Wallerian degeneration associated with?
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Injury to an axon and myelin sheath
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An under active thyroid gland results in?
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excess of TSH production
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Thyroid stimulating hormone is initiated from?
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Anterior pituitary gland
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Raised prolactin levels produces?
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milk production
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A client is suffering renal failure & needs dialysis. What effects would you expect to see in the blood of this patient because of the renal failure?
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Low EPO and low red cell count
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When u taste a piece of chocolate, which of the following combinations of cranial nerves & areas of the brain are involved?
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Facial nerves, Glossopharyngeal nerves, Vagus nerves and gustatory cortex
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What cranial nerve is primarily a Motor nerve for the tongue?
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XII Hypoglossal
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What is the longest cranial nerve?
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V Trigeminal
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A stretch reflex stimulates what?
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muscle spindles
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The thyroid gland is the largest pure endocrine gland in the body.
True or False |
TRUE
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Thyroid Hormone (TH) is the single most important hormone controlling the calcium balance of the blood.
True or False |
FALSE
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There are no ganglia in the Somatic nervous system.
True or False |
TRUE
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