USAHS Neuroscience Exam 4 Study
Questions and Answers 2024
· RIO: frontal lobe functions -Answer- ✔· Restraint, Initiative, Order (in order from most
basic to advanced)
Hypothalamus -Answer- ✔· homeostasis
Autonomic and neuroendocrine control
Hypothalamic pituitary access- fight or flight
Olfactory cortex -Answer- ✔• olfaction
o Smells come through bipolar neurons
o Bring info to mitral and tufted cells found in olfactory bulb
o Lateral striae: uncrossed/straight to olfactory cortex
o Medial striae: crossed pathway at anterior commissure to olfactory cortex
Hippocampal formation- -Answer- ✔memory
Amyglada -Answer- ✔· emotions and drives
o Direct connection with olfaction
o Fear, hunger, learning, sexual behaviors
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome -Answer- ✔hypersexuality
Septal nuclei -Answer- ✔Involved with pleasure center- responsible for desire to eat
reproduce
Modulates memory
Lesions associated with anorexia, gluttony & can lead to rage
Substantia nigra -Answer- ✔Produces dopamine
Needed as neuromodulator for movement
motor -Answer- ✔putamen
Brings info from the somatosensory cortex to the motor cortexes
Brodmann's areas 3, 2, 1 & primary motor cortex 4
USAHS Neuroscience Exam 4
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