Deck 5: Essay

Question 1

What is the difference between axoaxonic and axosynaptic synapses?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What are the different ways in which a neurotransmitter could become deactivated?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What are the four criteria used to determine whether a substance is a neurotransmitter?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What are the differences between excitatory and inhibitory synapses?

Question 5

What are the three ways a synapse can change in order to accommodate learning?

Question 6

What are the four major classes of neurotransmitters?

Question 7

What neurotransmitter system is used in the somatic nervous system (SNS)? How does it activate lead to depolarization?

Question 8

What behaviors are associated with the serotonergic system?

Question 9

What is the function of storage granules?

Question 10

What are transmitter-activated receptors?

Question 11

What are the four main amino acid transmitters and what are their functions?

Question 12

List four peptide transmitters.

Question 13

What is a neurotransmitter?

Question 14

What are the differences between chemical synapses and electrical synapses? What functions do they serve?

Question 15

What are second messengers? What role do they play in neural transmission?

Question 16

How did chemical transmitters originate?

Question 17

What are the neurochemical neurons in the sympathetic and parasympathetic system?

Question 18

What are the four steps involved in transmitting information across a chemical synapse?

Question 19

Describe the synthesis of the amine neurotransmitters.

Question 20

What is the difference between ionotropic and metabotropic receptors?

Question 21

Define sensitization.What is the synaptic basis of sensitization?

Question 22

Define habituation.What is the synaptic basis of the habituation response?