The Neuron:Quiz Game

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The Neuron
Neuro Quiz
Identify the correct question
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? Michael McKeough 2008
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The NeuronNeuro Quiz
Click category value to begin.
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Information Processing 100

• This segment of the cell is responsible for
  receiving all incoming information.

What is the receptive segment?
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Information Processing 200

• The purpose of this cell process is to increase
  the surface area of the receptive segment of the
  cell.

What is a dendrite?
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Information Processing 300

• This segment of the neuron is responsible for
  analyzing incoming information.
• This region of the neuron tests for critical
  threshold.

What is the axon hillock?
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Information Processing 400

• This information processing function is
  responsible for relaying information from spot in
  the nervous system to another.

What is transmission?
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Information Processing 500

• This activity by the neuron produces a response
  in the post-synaptic cell.

What is the release of neurotransmitter substance
into the cleft?
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Synapses 100

• Synapses form this type of gate and thereby
  regulate the directional flow of information
  within the nervous system.

What is a one-way gate?
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Synapses 200

• This is the most common type of synapse found in
  the nervous system.

What is axo-dendritic?
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Synapses 300

• Transmitter substance is stored in this structure
  in the presynaptic terminal.

What is a vesicle?
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Synapses 400

• This is the site where most medications and
  poisons have their effect.

What is the synaptic cleft?
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Synapses 500

• This mechanical model portrays the relationship
  between the transmitter molecule and the receptor
  site on the post-synaptic membrane.

What is a key-and-lock arrangement?
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Physiology 100

• This type of electrical conduction is found along
  the myelinated segment of the axon.

What is saltatory conduction?
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Physiology 200

• This type of electrical conduction is found along
  the receptive segment of the neuron.

What is slow detrimental conduction?
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Physiology 300

• This is the way information is portrayed along a
  neuron.

What is transient electrical information?
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Physiology 400

• This electrical potential is maintained by the
  sodium and potassium pumps and disturbed by the
  arrival of incoming information.

What is resting membrane potential?
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Physiology 500

• This process of transferring information from one
  neuron to another accounts for the synaptic delay
  in information transmission.

What is energy transduction (changing from
electrical to chemical back to electrical)?
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Miscellaneous 100

• This type of neuron transmits information from
  the receptor into the CNS.

What is a first-order neuron?
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Miscellaneous200

• All first-order neurons are this type of cell.

What is a pseudo-monopolar cell?
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Miscellaneous300

• This is the process by which information from a
  single neuron is spread to several post-synaptic
  neurons.
• This process enables parallel information
  processing within the CNS.

What is divergence?
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Miscellaneous400

• The entrance of a growing axonal sprout into this
  structure greatly increases the chances that a
  post-synaptic cell will become re-innervated.

What is the tube of Schwann cells (band of
Bungner)?
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Miscellaneous500

• This is the information coding strategy used by
  the nervous system to portray and transmit
  information.

What is a frequency code?
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Pathology 100

• This is the root cause of all impairments
  following neuralgic insult.

What is damage to neurons?
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Pathology 200

• This is the process of recovery of a neuron in
  the peripheral nervous system.

What is Wallerina de- and regeneration?
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Pathology 300

• This is the most severe class of peripheral nerve
  injury according to Seddon.

What is neurotmesis?
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Pathology 400

• This term describes the swelling of the cell body
  and peripheral displacement of the nucleus and
  Nissel substance following injury.

What is chromotolysis?
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Pathology 500

• This structure is produced by aberrant growth of
  an axonal sprout.

What is a neuroma?
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