Neuroscience is the detailed study of our nervous systems. It is one of the most extensively studied scientific fields and new discoveries related to it have been made in the past few decades. The following quiz is designed to test your knowledge on the basics of the subject and also includes a few case study related questions. Good Luck!
Induce both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Induce only the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Be an effective treatment for schizophrenia
Decrease the levels of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens
Be an effective treatment for thought and language disorder
Agonist; NMDA
Antagonist; dopamine
Agonist; acetylcholine
Antagonist; NMDA
Antagonist; GABA
Hearing voices that repeat senseless words and phrases
Experiencing a feeling of euphoria at the start of an episode
Believing that doctors are part of the plot to poison you
Thinking you are the most powerful being on earth
Exhibiting flattened emotional expression
A London cabby who has 30 years of experience
A pigeon that wanders from roost to roost
A bird that only eats from your backyard feeder
A person who has just started training as a London cabby
A chickadee tested in the early summer
The entorhinal cortex
The amygdala
Various regions of the limbic cortex
All association areas of the neocortex
All of the above
Field CA1 of the hippocampal formation
The perirhinal cortex
The parahippocamal cortex
The amygdala
The central nucleus of the amygdala
He cannot talk of events that occurred prior to 1953
His ability to spell simple words such as "and" and "but"
He cannot talk about mathematical operations
He is not proficient in post 1953 American vocabulary
Both a and c
The release of dopamine within the nucleus accumbens
The release of norepinephrine within the locus coeruleus
The release of dopamine within the lateral hypothalamus
Inactivation of frontal cortex
Activation of the medulla
You show no signs of sedation, even after nine beers
One beer puts you to sleep
The pill makes the alcohol taste bitter, causing you to vomit
You find alcohol more intoxicating
You have impaired cerebellar function
Reduced release of dopamine, increase in positive symptoms
Reduced release of GABA, decrease in positive symptoms
Greater release of dopamine, decrease in negative symptoms
Greater release of dopamine, increase in positive symptoms
Reduced release of serotonin, increase in negative symptoms
John stops taking CPZ and takes cocaine
John takes double the CPZ dose per day
John takes reserpine in addition to CPZ
John mixes alcohol with CPZ
John ingests alpha-methyl-para-tyrosine in addition to CPZ
Bipolar disorder
Severe depression
Severe mania
Unipolar depression
Schizoaffective disorder
Provide the precursor for the catecholamines
Convert dopamine into norepinephrine
Convert norepinephrine into epinephrine
Convert catecholamines and serotonin into inactive forms
Speed up the digestion of cheese in the gut
Loss of cells in the prefrontal cortex
Insufficient activity of monoaminergic neurons
Excessive activity of dopamine systems
Overactivity of monoaminergic neurons
Excessive activity of serotonin synapses
Reserpine causes depression
CSF levels of 5-HIAA are low in suicidal patients
Monoamine agonists produce depression
Families of subjects with low 5-HIAAA were more likely to include people with depression
Monoamine antogonists produce depression
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