課程名稱︰神經生物學
課程性質︰群組必修
課程教師︰楊恩誠
開課學院：生農學院
開課系所︰昆蟲系
考試日期（年月日）︰99/6/21
考試時限（分鐘）：3 hr
是否需發放獎勵金：是
（如未明確表示，則不予發放）
試題 :
1.If someone tossed you a hot potato and you caught it, which information
would reach your CNS first: the news that the potato was hot, or that is was
relatively smooth? Why?
2.Your doctor taps the tendon bebeath your kneecap and your leg extends, what
is the neural bass of this reflex? What iis it called?
3.Why is dopa used to treat Parkinson's disease? How does it act to alleviate
the sympotoms?
4.A number of famous athletes and entertainers have accidentally killed them-
selves by taking large quantities of cocaine. Usually, tha cause of death is
heart falure. How would you explain the peripheral actions of cocaine?
5.Compare and contrast the functons of these three regions of the hypothalamus
arcuate nucleus, the subfrontal organ, and the vascular organ of the lamina
terminalis.
6.Estradiol is usually described as a female sex hormone, but it also plays a
criitical role n the early development of the male bran. Explain how this
happens, and why the female bran s not similarly affected by estradiol at
the same stage of development.
7.The drug known as Prozac is a serotonin-selective reuptake ingibitor. How
might this drug affect a person's level of anxiety and aggression?
8.The SCN receives direct input from the retina, via the retinohypothalamic
tract, and this is how light-dark cycles can entrain circadian rhythms. If
the retinal axons were somehow disrupted, what would be the likely effect on
a person's circadian rhythms of sleeping and waking?
9.What can you conclude about the normal function of Broca's area from the
observation that there are usually some comprehension deficits in Broca's
aphsia?
10.How would you use fMRI or PET to look for brain areas involved in directing
selective attentiopn in humans?
11.What three types of drugs are used to treat depression? What do they have
in common?
12.Neurons that fire out of sync lose their link. Why?
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