Neuro final 3

Which of the following releases follicle stimulating hormone

Anterior pituitary

Gregg is experiencing hypovolemic thirst. This type of thirst ___.

Can be satisfied better by slightly salty water than pure water

Which of these is a risk factor for developing eating disorders?

Childhood abuse

Health at every size is a movement that emphasizes

Decentering weight from health discussions, focusing on self compassion and adding healthful behaviors to promote healthy lifestyles

Chronically high insulin levels lead to increased appetite by ____.

Decreasing blood glucose level

Osmotic thirst is best quenched by drinking sports drinks that include sodium

False

Rats with lower levels of serotonin have lower levels of aggression than normal rats

False

An individuals whose EEG recording shows sleep spindles and K complexes ___.

Has entered stage 2 sleep

Genetic males with testicular feminization (androgen insensitivity) develop looking and acting female. This condition develops because of a genetic mutation that has which effect?​

It prevents testosterone from having its usual effects.

On average, the anterior commissure is ___.

Larger in heterosexual women than heterosexual men

The most potent zietgeber for land mammals is___.

Light

Which hormone, released by the pineal, influences both circadian and circannual rhythms

Melatonin

During what stage of sleep do lucid dreams occur?

REM

The term "serotonin turnover" refers to the amount of serotonin that is ___.

Released then replaced

The small branch of the optic nerve that extends directly from the retina to the SCN is called the ___.

Retinohypothalamic path

What causes the primitive gonads to develop into masculine structures

SRY gene

According to the activation-synthesis hypothesis, it should be possible to predict (with better than chance accuracy) the content

Stimuli currently acting on the body and areas of spontaneous brain activity

The area that is activated by feeling disgusted is the same area of the brain responsible for ___.

Taste

Transplanting fetal SCN tissue from mutant hamsters with an abnormally shirt circadian rhythm (I.e. 20 hours) has what effect on normal recipient hamsters whose SCNs had been removed?

The recipient hamsters developed the same circadian rhythm that their donors had

Why do individuals with prefrontal cortex damage often make decisions?

They don't anticipate the unpleasantness of likely outcomes

A fever represents an increased set point for internal temperature

True

A post modern study conducted with transsexual individuals found that male to female transsexual people had female sized INAH3 nuclei in the hypothalamus

True

According to the James-Lange theory of emotion, we experience physiological changes first then label these changes as an emotion

True

In most mammals, the level of lactase declines at about the time of weaning

True

The paraventricular nucleus normally inhibits meal size

True

Cells in the basal forebrain increase arousal and wakefulness by releasing ____.

acetylcholine

What does cataplexy involve

an attack of muscle weakness while awake

One interpretation of how the hormone CCK promotes satiety is that it ____.

causes the stomach to fill more quickly

When Simon LeVay examined interstitial nucleus 3 in 41 people who had died, he found that in the homosexual males in his sample, this nucleus was:

comparable in size to the heterosexual females

At what point in the menstrual cycle are women who are not on birth control pills most likely to initiate sexual activity

during the periovulatory period

An individual with pure autonomic failure ___.

experiences emotions, but less intensely

Paz just ate some salty popcorn. Now she is experiencing an increase in the concentration of sodium in her _____.

extracellular fluid

Benzodiazepines work by ___.

facilitating GABA effects

What evidence exists that the preoptic area controls body temperature?

heating or cooling the preoptic area leads to sweating or shivering

Based on research, it has been determined that the human circadian rhythm appears to be

just over 24 hours

Loss of orexin-containing neurons in the hypothalamus may contribute to ____.​

narcolepsy

After damage in and around the ventromedial hypothalamus, animals are more likely to:

overeat and gain weight

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) occurs because the adrenal gland releases ___.

too little cortisol

An organizing effect differs from an activating effect of a hormone in that an organizing effect ____.​

​produces more long-lasting effects