MCQ Bank
Which of the following forms the transport system to take the neurons from the inner ventricular zone (where they are born) to the sites (where they would eventually form the brain?
- A) CAMS
- B) Radial Glials
- C) Pioneer Growth Cones
- D) Tectum Cells
Which of the following parts of the brain plays an important role in memory?
- A) Hypothalamus
- B) Hippocampus
- C) Amygdala
- D) Thalamus
We can classify the neurochemicals into how many major categories based on their chemical composition, their roles and their functions?
- A) Eight
- B) Two
- C) Four
- D) Six
The mid brain consists of ____________.
- A) Mesencephalon
- B) Myelencephalon
- C) Telencephalon
- D) Metencephalon
The postsynaptic membrane can be:
- A) Cell soma
- B) All of above mentioned
- C) Axons of other cells
- D) Dendrites
Which of the following is the junction between two neurons where one is communicating with the other?
- A) Neurotransmitters
- B) Neuromodulators
- C) Synapse
- D) Synopsis
Telenchephalon and diencephalon are the two major parts of ___________.
- A) Spinal cord
- B) Hind brain
- C) Mid brain
- D) Forebrain
Which of the following brain area is like a sea horse lesion and is important in the formation of memories especially long term?
- A) Cerebral cortex
- B) Hypothalamus
- C) Pons
- D) Hippocampus
Which of the following is the power house of the cell and it provides energy needed to run the cell?
- A) Ribosomes
- B) Mitochondria
- C) Cell cytoplasm
- D) Microtubules
Which of the following is an antagonist for muscarinic receptors?
- A) Atropine
- B) Paratyrosine
- C) Phentolamine
- D) Scopolamine
Decreases in 5 HT leads to a disinhibition of which of the following behaviors?
- A) All of the mentioned problems are possible
- B) Increased aggressiveness and suicidal tendencies
- C) Increased impulsivity
- D) Reduced controls on behaviors
How many kinds of actions can take place in the post synaptic membrane?
- A) Four
- B) Two
- C) Five
- D) Three
Neurotransmitter release is identified through a process called ___________.
- A) Meiosis
- B) Neurosis
- C) Mitosis
- D) Exocytosis
Which of the following is involved in mood, emotional states, motivation (hunger, thirst, fight/ flight etc) dream, rewards (learning), sleep alertness and wakefulness?
- A) Agonists
- B) Mitosis
- C) Norepinephrine/ Noradrenaline
- D) Antagonists
Which of the following discovered the existence of opioids in the brain?
- A) Hughes and Kosterlitz
- B) Jouvet
- C) Agranoff
- D) Skinner
Which of the following is the first step in the serotonin synthesis pathway?
- A) DecarboxylationDeactivation
- B) Hydroxylation
- C) Deactivation
- D) Tryptophan
Aggression is produced by ____________ area.
- A) Upper brain
- B) Midbrain ventral tegmental
- C) Upper brain
- D) Lower brain ventral
By which of the following mechanism the neurotransmitter can return to the presynaptic areas and be taken in for recycling and use?
- A) Deactivating
- B) Reuptake
- C) Mitosis
- D) Exocytosis
The cellular dehydration is mediated by the cholinoceptive system of neurons in the preoptic area of the _____________.
- A) Cortex
- B) Hypothalamus
- C) Pons
- D) Amygdala
Which of the following is the best pain killer in the world?
- A) Librium
- B) Valium
- C) Morphine
- D) Benzodiazepine