The head injured patient lost the ability to breath. Autopsy revealed neural damage in the ____________?

Related Mcqs:

1. In speech impairment from brain damage, damage has occurred in ____________?

   A. right cerebral hemisphere
   B. left cerebral hemisphere
   C. regular formation
   D. corpus collosum

2. Which, if any, of the following are true? 1: Each region of the neocortex may contain more specialized modules. 2: Damage to a given volume of neocortical tissue tends to be more profoundly disabling than damage to the same volume of the subcortex. 3: Functional neuro-imaging methods allow us to observe which brain regions are active.

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. None

3. After Rauf’s serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke’s area. Because of the damage, Rauf is most likely to experience difficulty in:

   A. understanding what others are saying
   B. recognizing familiar faces
   C. pronouncing words correctly
   D. controlling voluntary muscles

4. A patient walks with a jerky, uncoordinated motion. A good preliminary diagnosis would be damage to the __________?

   A. thalamus
   B. amygdala
   C. reticular activating system
   D. cerebellum

5. In a recent car accident, Taimor sustained damage to his right cerebral hemisphere. This injury is most likely to reduce Tamior’s ability to:

   A. facially express emotions
   B. solve arithmetic problems
   C. understand simple verbal requests
   D. process information in an orderly sequence

6. A physical stimulus is converted into a neural impulse by a process ____________?

   A. transposition
   B. transduction
   C. transition
   D. transference

7. The fact that, during neural transmission, an impulse is sent to the end of the axon without fading or weakening is known as ___________?

   A. stimulus constancy
   B. absolute threshold retention
   C. nondecremental property
   D. all-or-none property

8. Sound vibrations in the ear create neural impulses received in which of the following cortex locations?

   A. temporal lobe
   B. occipital lobe
   C. parietal lobe
   D. frontal lobe

9. The process by which sensory information is converted into neural energy is ______________?

   A. sensory adaptation
   B. feature detection
   C. signal detection
   D. transduction

10. Akhtar is watching a basketball game the neural impulses from his eyes will ultimately travel to his primary visual cortex, but first they must pass through the:

    A. amygdala
    B. hypothalamus
    C. thalamus
    D. pons