Chapter 1 and First half of Chapter 2

This person was considered the founder of clinical neuroscience:

• Ramon y Cajal

• Gall

• Willis

• Petty

John Hughlings Jackson proposed a ________organization in the cerebral cortex, based on his work with people with ________.

• holistic; aphasia

• topographic; epilepsy

• topographic; aphasia

• holistic; epilepsy

What scientists had the gall to found the discipline of phrenology?

• Broca and Wernicke

• Gall and Spurzheim

• Ramon y Cajal y Sherrington

• Fritsch and Hitzig

Patient Leborgne was nicknamed "Tan" because that was the only word he could utter. Leborgne had developed an aphasia due to a lesion in which area of the brain?

• frontal cortex

• cerebellum

• broca's area

• wernicke's area

As a first approximation, individuals with damage to the left inferior frontal lobe tend to have more difficulty with ________, whereas individuals with damage to the left posterior temporal lobe tend to have more difficulty with ________.

• fine motor control; the sense of touch

• the sense of touch; fine motor control

• the production of language; the perception of language

• the perception of language; the production of language

The neuroanatomist who described 52 distinct cortical areas based on cell structure and arrangement, and whose classification scheme is often used today, was

• Brodman

• Gall

• Purkinje

• Ramon y Cajal

La reazione nera, or “the black reaction,” refers to

• a cell stain developed by Golgi.

• a perceptual phenomenon described by the Gestalt psychologists.

• a ganglion preparation developed by Arvanitaki.

• a type of reinforcement-based learning described by the behaviorists.

This person is considered the father of modern neuroscience

• Ramon y Cajal

• Gall

• Skinner

• Golgi

Glial Cells are:

• A specialized type of neuron

• bundles of axons in the CNS

• Cells that provide support for neurons

• Extraparietal white matter

Oligodendrocytes myelinate ________ in the __________

• Axons; CNS

• Axons; PNS

• Glial Cells; CNS

• Glial Cells; PNS