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VETERINARY NEUROBIOLOGY 2008 - Quiz 6

Circle or fill in the correct answers below. Quizzes are open-book, but are to be done on your own. Please hand in at the end of class on 4/30/08. Thanks.

1. Which one of the following is not part of the emotional/regulatory pathway for taste?

a) the ventral posterior medial (VMP) nucleus of thalamus b) the amygdala

c) the hypothalamus d) the parabrachial nucleus

2. The olfactory receptors are primary receptors.

a) True b) False

3. An alpha-motor neuron and all the skeletal muscle fibers it innervates is called a _______________________

4. Which one of the following pathways is not a medial brainstem motor pathway?

a) reticulospinal b) tectospinal c) rubrospinal d) vestibulospinal

5. Which one of the following is called an otolith organ of the vestibular apparatus?

a) ampulla b) semicircular duct c) saccule

d) cochlea e) scala vestibule

6. The crista ampulla is most closely associated with transduction of which one of the following?

a) linear head acceleration b) rotational head acceleration

c) static head tilt