Quiz
01. The Cerebral Cortex makes up how much of the total brain volume?
a. 10%
b. 50%
c. 77%
d. 88%
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02. Which part of the Cerebral Cortex covers the Cerebral Hemispheres?
a. Paleocortex
b. Neocortex
c. Archicortex
d. Allocortex
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03. On average, on each neuron in the cortex there are how many synapses?
a. 1000
b. 2000
c. 10,000
d. 1,000,000
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04. The Cerebral Cortex develops from which secondary brain vesicle?
a. the metencephalon
b. the mesencephalon
c. the prosencephalon
d. the telencephalon
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05. What is mainly found in cortical layer 4
a. granular neurons, stellate neurons and pyramidal neurons
b. cajal-retzius neurons and pyramidal neurons
c. betz cells and cajal-retzius neurons
d. efferents to subcortical regions
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06. Brodmann areas 44 and 45 are also known as...
a. Wernicke's area
b. Primary Visual Cortex
c. Primary Motor Cortex
d. Broca's area
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07. Which Brodmann areas are associated with the comprehension of language?
a. areas 1, 2, 3
b. area 41
c. areas 39, 40
d. areas 21, 22
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08. Damage to the Occipital lobe can result in...
a. cerebral achromatopsia
b. global aphasia
c. personality changes
d. all of the above
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09. Wernicke's aphasia is characterised by what?
a. paraphasia
b. fluent speech
c. impaired comprehension of language
d. all of the above
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10. Which of these are associated with Alzheimer's diseas?
a. neurofibrillary tangles in cortical layers II and VI
b. neurofibrillary tangles in orbitofrontal complex
c. damage to the parietal lobe
d. all of the above
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Answers: 1-C, 2-B, 3-C, 4-D, 5-A, 6-D, 7-C, 8-A, 9-D, 10-B