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Synapses - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 16 times
- The average score is 4 of 15
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| What does IPSP stand for in reference to the CNS? | Inhibitory Post-Synaptic Potential | 50%
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| What is the name given to a type of neurotransmitter that travels back across the synapse to bind to the presynaptic axon? | Retrograde messenger | 50%
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| Which of the following 3 types of receptor is an example of the above? Cutaneous, olfaction, taste? | Taste | 50%
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| On the axon? | Axo-axonic | 25%
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| On the dendrites? | Axodendritic | 25%
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| What is the name for the specialised area of a neuron where an action potential is initiated? | Axon hillock | 25%
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| Synapses can occur at various places along a neurons body, what is the name for one that synapses on the soma? | Axosomatic | 25%
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| What is the term for when multiple neurons synapse onto one neuron? | Convergence | 25%
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| What is the term for when one neuron synapses with numerous others? | Divergence | 25%
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| What is the name given to a receptor cell that immediately synapses with a second order cell to transfer its information to the CNS, and generally generates a graded potential? | Short receptor | 25%
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| What constant of a nerve is proportional to the square root of its diameter? | Space/length | 25%
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| What type of inhibition is when the pathway to the antagonist is inhibited when the agonist is stimulated? | Feedforward | 0%
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| What type of channel needs to be activated for bursting to occur? | Low threshold calcium | 0%
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| When an inhibitory synapse is located closer to the cell body than an excitatory, and leads to a vast proportion of the excitatory current leaing the cell before reaching the soma it is equivalent to division and is called? | Shunting inhibition | 0%
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| What is the name for neurons that are close to where action potentials are being stimulated and so may be excited but not to firing threshold? | Subliminal fringe | 0%
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