Anatomy Questions

A secondary effect that melatonin has on the human body is to inhibit the production of __________.

What technique assigns a color to brain activity and allows scientists to watch how neurons interact?

Melatonin is responsible for maintaining the _________, which is also called the sleep-wake cycle.

The central and inferior nuclei of the reticular formation are found in the _____.

Phineas Gage is famous not just for surviving such a wild injury, but also because his trauma to the frontal lobes was the first connection between _____ and _____.

What is a tool that reads electrical activity in the brain with electrodes that are placed on the subject's scalp?

What is the term for the study of the relationship between the regions of the brain, and the tasks they perform?

Which part of the embryonic brain will later mature into structures most critical to your heart rate?

Blood flows through a closed circulatory system. Where in the system does the exchange of gases and nutrients occur?

The pineal gland is sometimes called the _______ because of its reaction to the presence of light.

Which part of the brain regulates many vital autonomic functions including heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, swallowing, and digestion?

The pineal gland releases _________ melatonin when light is detected and _________ melatonin when little to no light is detected.

Arteries in the circulatory system are the blood vessels experiencing the highest pressure. How are the arteries adapted to experience such high pressures?

What is the maintenance of a stable internal environment within an organism commonly called?

An electric impulse involving a change in voltage across a plasma membrane is best known as a(n) _____.

_____ sends signals from the body to the central nervous system, and the _____ sends signals from the central nervous system back to the body.

In addition to muscles, tendons and joints, what else contains sensory receptors that use internal stimuli to detect movement?

When the dendrite is in its resting state (i.e. the inside of the cell has a net negative charge and the outside of the cell has a net positive charge), its membrane is _____.

Which of the following would NOT be a reason why the shape of astrocytes would increase their functionality?

_____ are afferent nerve endings that sense stimuli outside the body and _____ are subgroups of these receptors that respond to mechanical stimuli such as touch, pressure and vibration.