Questions & Answers
Browse all 20 questions from the
Milestones in Neuroscience study set below.
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1
Who is considered the father of modern neuroscience for his work on the neuron doctrine?
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A
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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B
Sigmund Freud
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C
Charles Darwin
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D
Ivan Pavlov
2
Which invention allows scientists to record electrical activity in the brain through electrodes on the scalp?
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A
MRI
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B
EEG
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C
CT Scan
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D
PET Scan
3
What was the first neurotransmitter to be chemically identified in 1921?
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A
Dopamine
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B
Serotonin
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C
Acetylcholine
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D
Adrenaline
4
Who famously studied the patient 'H.M.' to discover the role of the hippocampus in memory?
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A
Brenda Milner
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B
Oliver Sacks
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C
Phineas Gage
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D
Wilder Penfield
5
Which medical imaging technique uses powerful magnets to produce detailed images of the brain?
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A
X-ray
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B
Ultrasound
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C
MRI
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D
ECG
6
What is the name of the 19th-century railroad worker who survived a metal rod passing through his brain, providing insight into personality and the frontal lobe?
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A
Henry Molaison
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B
Phineas Gage
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C
Louis Pasteur
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D
Paul Broca
7
Which area of the brain, discovered in the 1860s, is associated with speech production?
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A
Broca's area
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B
Occipital lobe
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C
Cerebellum
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D
Brainstem
8
In which century was the first successful human brain surgery recorded?
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A
15th century
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B
19th century
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C
10th century
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D
20th century
9
What did Alois Alzheimer describe for the first time in 1906?
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A
Parkinson's disease
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B
Epilepsy
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C
Dementia
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D
Multiple Sclerosis
10
What discovery did Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal share the Nobel Prize for in 1906?
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A
Brain mapping
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B
The structure of the nervous system
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C
Synaptic transmission
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D
The discovery of the spinal cord
11
Who is known for developing the lobotomy procedure in the 1930s?
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A
Egas Moniz
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B
Hans Berger
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C
Francis Crick
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D
James Watson
12
Which technique, first used in the 1950s, allows researchers to observe brain activity by tracking glucose metabolism?
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A
PET scan
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B
MRI
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C
EEG
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D
Reflexology
13
What did the 'Golgi stain' method allow scientists to see for the first time?
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A
Individual neurons
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B
Blood cells
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C
DNA strands
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D
Skin layers
14
Which Nobel-winning scientist discovered the chemical transmission of nerve impulses?
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A
Otto Loewi
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B
Isaac Newton
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C
Albert Einstein
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D
Marie Curie
15
What does the term 'synapse' refer to, a term coined by Charles Sherrington in 1897?
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A
A brain tumor
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B
The connection between neurons
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C
A type of brain cell
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D
The skull lining
16
In 1929, who published the first human EEG recordings?
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A
Hans Berger
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B
Sigmund Freud
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C
Wilder Penfield
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D
Jean Piaget
17
Which brain structure was identified as the 'seat of emotion' in the 1930s as part of the Papez circuit?
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A
Limbic system
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B
Frontal lobe
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C
Parietal lobe
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D
Medulla
18
What major discovery did Wilder Penfield make regarding the human brain in the 1940s?
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A
The cortical homunculus
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B
The DNA sequence
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C
The circulatory system
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D
The function of the lung
19
Who coined the term 'neuron' in 1891 to describe the basic unit of the nervous system?
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A
Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer
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B
Gregor Mendel
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C
Robert Hooke
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D
Louis Braille
20
Which decade saw the first use of functional MRI (fMRI) to map brain activity?
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A
1950s
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B
1970s
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C
1990s
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D
1920s
