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A section through the brain that shows structures as they would be seen from the side involves which plane?

When Sherrington pinched a dog’s paw and observed the reflexive withdrawal of that paw, he made three major conclusions.  Which of the following is one of those conclusions?

What occurs when a stimulus shifts the local membrane potential of a neuron from the resting potential to a slightly less negative potential?

Which of the following is a somatic intervention?

What happens to the membrane ion channels when the action potential reaches its peak?

Anterograde axonal transport is accomplished by a protein called __________; whereas retrograde axonal transport is accomplished mostly by a protein called __________.

Which of the following is NOT synonymous with afterhyperpolarization?

Which of the following local movements of ions would produce a depolarization?

After repeated exposure to amphetamine, a rat exhibits a greater-than-normal locomotor response to an injection of morphine.  This is known as __________.

You are a neurologist on your first day at work (Congratulations!) and your first patient does not recognize objects in the left half of her extrapersonal space.  In what part of the brain was her stroke?