Exam 4R

A  pituitary.

B  adrenal cortex.

C  adrenal medulla.

D  anterior pituitary.

E  sweat glands.

A  depressive

B  bipolar

C  schizophrenia spectrum

D  anxiety

E  phobic

A  fetal adrenal medulla

B  their own striatal

C  fetal substantia nigra

D  adrenal cortex

E  their own substantia nigra

A  estrous cycle

B  Kluver-Bucy syndrome

C  sexual dimorphism

D  anabolic steroids

E  John Money

A  suspected he was a boy from the second grade on.

B  refused to wear a bra.

C  all of these

D  requested mastectomy and phalloplasty.

E  acted like a male from an early age.

A  all of these

B  changes in personality.

C  seizures.

D  disturbances of attention.

E  a selective decline in memory.

A  neuropsychological

B  neurochemical

C  psychiatric

D  neurobehavioral

E  degenerative

A  it plays an important role in mental health.

B  treatments that improve depression increase BDNF.

C  women have twice as much as men.

D  BDNF is localized in the prefrontal lobes.

E  regeneration is not possible without it.

A  shallow vaginas.

B  all of these

C  breasts.

D  internalized testes.

E  little public hair.

A  testes.

B  ovaries.

C  a Wolffian system.

D  the penis.

E  a Müllerian system.

A  greater among cocaine users.

B  greater for males than for females.

C  much more than 50%.

D  much less than 100%.

E  more than for dizygotic twins.

A  is stimulated by a high ratio of androgens to estrogens.

B  is stimulated by a high ratio of estrogens to androgens.

C  occurs automatically even if testosterone is present in large amounts.

D  occurs automatically unless testosterone is present.

E  can be blocked by hormones but is not stimulated by them.

A  depressed people have low levels of monoamines.

B  most drugs used to treat depression are monoamine antagonists.

C  most drugs used to treat depression are monoamine agonists.

D  depressed people have high levels of monoamines.

A  neurotransmitters; brain

B  glutamate; brain

C  blood; heart

D  air; body

E  blood; brain

A  delusions

B  hallucinations

C  all of these

D  inappropriate affect

E  incoherent speech or thought

A  enable them to achieve an erection.

B  eliminate their sterility.

C  increase their muscularity.

D  render them potent.

E  increase their sex drive.

A  dopamine.

B  D1 receptors.

C  autoreceptors.

D  D2 receptors.

E  glutamate receptors.

A  jerky, writhing movements of entire limbs.

B  all of these

C  severe dementia.

D  increased fidgetiness.

A  their cognitive reserve allowed them to compensate for their cognitive deficits by accomplishing cognitive tasks in alternative ways, even though they did not recover lost functions.

B  scientists recover more than doctors.

C  their cognitive deficits were greater because they had more to lose.

D  doctors recover more than scientists.

E  they displayed a remarkable degree of recovery of lost cognitive functions.

A  ovaries.

B  testes.

C  the female sex ducts.

D  the frenulum.

E  the Wolffian system.

A  from the same bipotential tissue.

B  from different tissue.

C  under direct genetic control.

D  under environmental control.

E  under estrogenic control.

A  brain infarcts.

B  closed-head injuries of sudden onset.

C  cancerous brain tumors of sudden onset.

D  cerebral attacks.

E  cerebrovascular disorders of sudden onset.

A  occurs at a very high rate in Africans and East Asians.

B  is associated with damage to the myelin of the CNS.

C  all of these

D  is most common in very warm climates.

E  is usually the result of a dominant gene.

A  focal seizures whose symptoms are primarily sensory or motor.

B  Jacksonian.

C  none of these

D  often characterized by the systematic spread of motor symptoms through the body.

E  all of these

A  be triggered by an obvious traumatic event.

B  involve a suicide attempt.

C  last less than 2 weeks.

D  NOT involve anhedonia.

E  last more than 2 weeks.