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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?

Dendrites often contain additional short outgrowths (spines). These are believed to be important in what function?

The __________ is contained in the forebrain; the __________ is contained in the midbrain; and the __________ is contained in the hindbrain.