Biological Bases of Mental life and behaviour

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Graded potentials are:

Cumulative or additive

David has multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disorder that causes myelin to disintegrate. What effect is this going to have on the speed of

They will slow down.

The resting potential of a neuron refers to:

the condition in which the neuron is not firing.

Interneurons are responsible for:

connecting other neurons to each other.

Wernicke's aphasia results in:

'word salad': words are tossed together so they make little sense

The hindbrain includes all of the following except the:

hypothalamus.

The 'grey matter' of the brain gets its colour from:

cell bodies, dendrites and unmyelinated axons.

Bundles of axons outside the central nervous system are referred to as spinal ______, whereas the bundles of axons inside the central nervou

nerves, tracts

People who do not have sufficient acetylcholine in the brain are likely to experience:

difficulty with learning and memory

One of the most important functions of the hypothalamus is:

homoeostasis.