The History of Neuroscience

Question 1

Trepanning

Answer 1

Boring holes in skulls 5000-10000 years ago

Question 2

Hippocrates

Answer 2

Dissected sheep brain and determined that the brain was responsible for processing smell and was the seat of intelligence

Question 3

Central Nervous System

Answer 3

Brain, spinal cord, brain stem and cerebellum

Question 4

Phrenology

Answer 4

Pseudoscience where different areas of the brain were said to have different effects based on size. A phrenological chart would be used to diagnose patients

Question 5

Paul Broca

Answer 5

Studies the brain and discovered damage at Broca’s area in guy with language impairment

Question 6

Wernicke’s Patient

Answer 6

Couldn’t receive language but could produce it

Question 7

5 Levels of Neuroscience

Answer 7

Molecular neuroscience, cellular neuroscience, systems neuroscience, behavioural neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience.

Question 8

Nissl

Answer 8

Stains the rough endoplamsic reticulum

Question 9

Golgi Stain

Answer 9

Stains randomly to reveal whole cell and appendages

Question 10

Recurrent Collateral

Answer 10

When axons branch back to cell body

Question 11

Exon

Answer 11

Region of DNA that codes for protein

Question 12

Introns

Answer 12

Don’t code for protein but still important.

Question 13

Splicing

Answer 13

Cutting out introns, occurs with mRNA (just exons)

Question 14

Pyruvate/Pyruvic Acid

Answer 14

Feed the mitochondria from broken down fat, sugars and protein to form ATP, 02 and CO2

Question 15

Microfilaments

Answer 15

Actin, most common, 5 nm in diamterer

Question 16

Neurofilament

Answer 16

Continually produced in alzheimers until the neuron explodes (leaving tangles). 10 nm in diameter

Question 17

Microtubule

Answer 17

20 nm in diameter