Deck 5: Hormones, Appetite, and Emotions in Neuroscience

Question 1

The part of the brain that interacts most importantly with the sex hormones in the regulation of sexual behaviour is the

A)hypothalamus
B)cortex.
C)thalamus
D)medulla

Answer 1

hypothalamus

Question 2

------------------- is the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions.

A)Binge eating
B)Emotional eating
C)Dieting
D)Over eating

Answer 2

Emotional eating

Question 3

Feeding center is a group of cells in the _______________that when stimulated cause a sensation of hunger.

A)lateral hypothalamus
B)cerebral cortex
C)mid brain
D)ventromedial hypothalamus

Answer 3

lateral hypothalamus

Question 4

A chronic lack of nutritious food can cause various illnesses, and will eventually lead to ______________.

A)Depression
B)Misfunction
C)Starvation
D)Suppression

Question 5

Damage to the lateral hypothalamus may lead to a condition known as ______________.

A)Anorexia nervosa
B)Bulimia
C)Frölich\s syndrome
D)Cohen syndrome

Question 6

________________also determine food intake in the long-term and are important in maintaining energy balance over a nutritionally significant interval.

A)Metabolic signals
B)Cephalic signals
C)Gastrointestinal signals
D)Intestinal signals

Question 7

Russek first proposed the ____________as a site where changes in metabolism are detected to control feeding behavior,

A)Intestine
B)Liver
C)Thalamus
D)Hormone

Question 8

The _______________is a key hypothalamic nucleus in the regulation of appetite.

A)CART
B)NPY
C)ARC
D)PVN

Question 9

Lesioning of the __________________reduces bodyweight.

A)LHA
B)MCH
C)VMN
D)NPY

Question 10

The __________________has also recently been described as the site of a novel hypothalamic appetite-regulatory circuit involving triiodothyronine ( T₃).

A)LHA
B)MCH
C)VMN
D)NPY

Question 11

The ______________ postulates that certain ethnic groups may be more prone to obesity in an equivalent environment.

A)Glucostatic hypothesis
B)lipostatic hypothesis
C)Russek's studies
D)Thrifty gene hypothesis

Question 12

______________is produced by adipose tissue to signal fat storage reserves in the body, and mediates long-term appetitive controls,

A)Leptin
B)Ghrelin
C)Orexin
D)PYY 3-36

Question 13

Excessive thirst, known as polydipsia, along with excessive urination, known as polyuria, may be an indication of ___________.

A)Renal problems
B)Diabetes
C)Starvation
D)seizures

Question 14

_______________________sense a decreased blood volume, and signal to area postrema and nucleus tractus solitarius as well.

A)Arterial baroreceptors
B)Subfornical organ
C)renin angiotensin system (RAS)
D)Cardiopulmonary receptors

Question 15

The stages of sleep were first described in 1937 by ______________________.

A)Alfred Lee Loomis
B)Edward Adolph
C)Clark Hull
D)Jenny Craig

Question 16

Cortical ablation effects on learning and retention was studies by--------------

A)Watson
B)Woodworth
C)Johnson
D)Lashley

Question 17

The principle of--------------action states that the cortex acts as a whole in learning.

A)Cell
B)Neuron
C)Unit
D)Mass

Question 18

Emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional behaviour and visceral reaction:

A)Cannon-Bard
B)William James
C)Young
D)Arnold

Question 19

-----------------and--------------have proposed that emotional behaviour and experience are initiated by the cortex and merely carried out by the hypothalamus.

A)Cannon and Bard
B)Freeman and Arnold
C)Papez and Arnold
D)James and Lange

Question 20

--------suggested a circuit from the entorbinal cortex to the hippocampus, then to hypothalamus via the fornix, from there to the anterior thalamus, and finally to the cingulated gyrus involved in emotional experience.

A)Schacter
B)Cannon
C)James
D)Papez

Question 21

An instruments that measures several emotional responses controlled by the ANS:

A)Ergograph
B)Polygraph
C)Tathistoscope
D)Mayograph

Question 22

-------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell

A)Paleocortex
B)amydala
C)Premotor area
D)Perelymph

Question 23

--------------is a hypersexed behaviour resulted from bilateral removal of the temporal lobes

A)Hysteria
B)Hypoglycemia
C)Kliver-Bucy syndrome
D)Myopia

Question 24

The role of hippocampus on short term memory was studies by-----------------

A)Penfield
B)Pilzeck
C)Russel
D)Pavlov