Neuro Week 15

What term refers to the brains ability to change and reorganize itself in response to experiences, learning, and environmental factors?

Synaptogenesis

Neuroplasticity

Neurogenesis

Long-term potentiation

Match each term with its best description.

Coritcal reorganization

Process of generating new neurons in the brain

Neurogenesis

Formation of new synapses and the modification of existing ones, allowing for refinement of motor skills

Synaptogenesis

The strengthening of connections between neurons

Long-term potentiation

Reorganization of cortical maps; Changes in representation of body parts and movements in the primary motor cortex and other motor-related areas

You played soccer for 15 years as a child but it has been several years since your last game. You recently played a pick-up game for fun, but your skills were very rusty compared what they were several years ago. This is an example of which neuroplasticity principal?

Use it or lose it

Use it and improve it

Repetition matters

Time matters

A client practices putting a plate in an overhead counter 45 times in one session. They see improvement in this skill faster than another client who practiced 12 times in their session. This is an example of which neuroplasticity principle?

Use it or lose it

Use it and improve it

Repetition matters

Time matters

Deciding to do neuroprotective interventions in the acute phase of injury stems from which neuroplasticity principle>

Use it or lose it

Use it and improve it

Repetition matters

Time matters

The patient has to be engaged in therapy to see improvement is an idea that comes from which principle?

Intensity matters

Salience matters

Transference

Interference

Select the structures activated in working memory.

Prefrontal cortex

Medial temporal lobe (hippocampus, fornix, surrounding cerebral cortex)

Temporoparietal association cortex

The supplementary motor cortex, putamen, and globus pallidus are activated in what kind of memory?

Working memory

Declarative memory

Procedural memory

Match each type of memory with its function.

Declarative

Recollections that can easily be verbalized; three stages of recall include encoding, consolidation, and retrieval

Working

Recall of skills and habits; includes perceptual and cognitive skill learning

Procedural

Maintains goal-relevant information for a short time; essential for language, problem-solving, mental navigation, and reasoning

The collection of specific personal events, including who was present and where, why, and when each took place is known as __________.

Match each aspect of consciousness with the neurotransmitter associated with it.

The ability to attend to important information and ignore distractions is what?

Divided attention

Selective attention

Sustained attention

Switching attention

The ability to change from one task to another is known as what?

Divided attention

Selective attention

Sustained attention

Switching attention

The ability to attend to two or more things simultaneously is known as what?

Divided attention

Selective attention

Sustained attention

Switching attention

Match the terms related to amnesia to their best description.

Anterograde amnesia

Loss of memory for events following the event that caused the amnesia

Amnesia

Loss of declarative memory

Retrograde amnesia

Loss of memories that occured before the trauma or disease that caused the condition

Movement of the cerebral hemispheres relative to the brainstem causing torque of brainstem causes what?

Impaired attention

Alzheimer's

Seizure

Loss of consciousness

Difficulty sustaining attention with onset during childhood; inappropriate inattention and impulsivity; reduced gray matter volume and decreased functional connectivity in prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate cortex, and cerebellum describes what?

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Dementia

Azheimer's

Parkinson's

There are 7 different kinds of dementia each with differing cognitive, behavioral/emotional, and motor disorders.

True

False

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