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Practice test - Dissection II

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1.  Damage to the gyrus immediately anterior to the ansate sulcus would produce abnormality in ______ function.
  somatosensory
  motor
  both sensory and motor


2.  When considering the arbor vitae, you should think: _______________

 white matter.
 grey matter.


3.  The coronal sulcus runs __________ to the ansate fissure.
  parallel
  perpendicular

4.  Somatosensory cortex is located in the ___________lobe.
  frontal
  parietal
  temporal
  occipital


5.  Superior colliculus : vision as inferior colliculus :

 audition
 somatosensation
 pain


6. The amygdala is involved in_______.
  emotion
 regulation of the day/night cycle.
  the control of temperature regulation.
  vision

7.  An important structure containing nuclei involved in the regulation of sleep is the ________.

  thalamus
  cerebral peduncle
  pons
  trapezoid body


8.  Your ability to place numerous neuroanatomical terms into memory is dependent on having a "good" _____________________.

 hypothalamus
  substantia nigra
 amygdala
 hippocampus


9.  The fasciculus gracilis carries information from the ______ limbs, while the fasciculus cuneatus, carries information from the ______ limbs.
  hind; fore
  fore; hind
  hind; hind
  fore; fore

10.  The fasciculus gracilis and the fasciculus cuneatus are known collectively as the ___________ ____________.

  pyramidal tract
  internal capsule
  dorsal columns
corpora quadrigemina


11.  A brown tufted material, the choroid plexus, can be found at the lateral junction of the cerebellum and medulla.  Choroid plexus is involved in the production of _____________.
  neural transmitter
  serotonin
  cerebrospinal fluid
  bile

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