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Damage to the substantia nigra of the midbrain would be indicated by problems with:

Regions of skin supplied by a spinal nerve for somatic sensation are known as:

Where are the ganglia of the parasympathetic nervous system located?

Which of the following should NOT cross the blood-brain barrier with ease?

In the spinal cord, nerve tracts or funiculi make up the:

If mitosis occurs in a normal diploid body cell in the human, ____ daughter cells will be produced, and there will be ____ chromosomes in each daughter cell.

Afton, a teacher for the past 25 years, spent Saturday and Sunday skiing in very cold weather. The following Friday, she got up to get ready for school and was shocked to find that the right side of her face was drooping. She went to the emergency room, where tests could find no evidence of a stroke or a tumor. What is the most likely diagnosis?

What results when the corpus callosum is cut?

Red blood cells are not permeable to salt (NaCl), but freely permeable to water. The concentration of salt in the fluids outside these cells is 0.5%.What would you predict would happen?

This space shown in Figure 25 at the arrow is only associated with spinal cord meninges (not the brain) and contains fat and connective tissue; it is often used as a site for administration of anesthesia: