A. tomography
B. hemispherectomy
C. phrenology
D. plasticity
Related Mcqs:
- The capacity of the brain area to take over the function of another damaged brain area is known as brain _______________?
A. regeneration
B. accommodation
C. aphasia
D. plasticity - Which part of the brain was damaged in Phineas Gages’ accident?
A. Occipital Lobe
B. Cerebellum
C. Parietal Lobe
D. Frontal Lobe - A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?
A. retroactive inhibition
B. anterograde amnesia
C. proactive inhibition
D. retrograde amnesia - An elderly acquaintance of you has suffered from partial blindness since she had a stroke. Apparently the stroke damaged her:
A. occipital lobe
B. parietal lobe
C. temporal lobes
D. reticular formation - The most obvious difference between the human brain and the brain of a carp would be in the:
A. hypothalamus
B. thalamus
C. cerebellum
D. cerebral cortex - The brain structure that controls unconscious but essential functions such as breathing and circulation is the:
A. cerebellum
B. corpus callosum
C. hypothalamus
D. medulla - Waqas looked directly into a very bright light and damaged his retina. The ophthalmologist has told him that he has sustained massive damage to his rods but for the most part his cones have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Waqas’ vision is that he will now have:
A. more accurate depth perception
B. poor vision in bright illumination
C. poor vision in low illumination
D. poor peripheral vision - Petra locked directly into a very bright light and damaged her retina. The ophthalmologist has told her that she has sustained massive damage to her cones, but for the most part her rods have not been affected. One change that you could predict for Petra’s vision is that she will now have:
A. Poor vision in bright light
B. No color vision
C. Poor vision in low illumination
D. More accurate depth perception - Which of the following statements is NOT true in terms of the repairing damaged brains?
A. Adult neurons can sometimes from new connections
B. If one input to a target area is lost, the remaining inputs sometimes send out new branches from their axons to colonize the vacant space
C. Although transplanted neurons taken from a brain at the right stage of development will grow in an adult host brain, they will not restore normal function
D. Transplants of dopamine cell bodies alleviate some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in human patients - The brain structure that controls unconscious but essential functions such as breathing and circulation is the:
A. cerebellum
B. corpus callosum
C. hypothalamus
D. medulla
