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Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White
Chapter 18: Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
Multiple Choice
1. Which nuclei
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Test Bank
to accompany
Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
Purves • Augustine • Fitzpatrick • Hall • LaMantia • Mooney • Platt • White
Chapter 18: Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
Multiple Choice
1. Which nuclei comprise the striatum?
a. Globus pallidus and caudate
b. Putamen and pallidum
c. Caudate and substantia nigra pars compacta
d. Putamen and caudate
e. Pallidum and substantia nigra pars compacta
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
2. Where are medium spiny neurons located?
a. Striatum
b. Pallidum
c. Globus pallidus
d. Substantia nigra pars compacta
e. Subthalamic nucleus
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
3. Output from the basal ganglia projects from which structures?
a. Globus pallidus and caudate
b. Putamen and pallidum
c. Globus pallidus and substantia nigra pars reticulata
d. Putamen and caudate
e. Pallidum and substantia nigra pars compacta
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
4. Which regions of the cerebral cortex project directly to the striatum?
a. Association areas of the frontal and parietal lobes
b. Temporal lobe
c. Insular cortex
d. Cingulate cortex
e. Nearly all regions of the cerebral cortex
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Answer: e
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 1. Remembering
5. Refer to the figure.
Which region of the basal ganglia is indicated by the asterisk?
a. Striatum
b. Pallidum
c. Globus pallidus
d. Substantia nigra pars compacta
e. Subthalamic nucleus
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 4. Analyzing
6. What evidence suggests that medium spiny neurons are associated with a decision to move?
a. Cortical areas concerned with the hand converge in a different striatum area than cortical areas
concerned with the leg.
b. Neurons in the putamen and caudate discharge seconds before the initiation of movement.
c. The more extensively interconnected the area of cortex, the greater the overlap in their
projections to the striatum.
d. Staining of the striatum reveals patches surrounded by matrix.
e. Input and output into the different components of the striatum is unique.
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 4. Analyzing
7. Which neurons do not directly synapse on the striatum?
a. Cortical neurons
b. Local circuit neurons
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c. α motor neurons
d. Thalamic neurons
e. Dopaminergic neurons from the brainstem
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
8. Dopaminergic neurons that synapse on medium spiny neurons originate from which brain
region?
a. Substantia nigra pars reticulata
b. Pallidum
c. Globus pallidus
d. Substantia nigra pars compacta
e. Subthalamic nucleus
Answer: d
Textbook Reference: Projections to the Basal Ganglia
Bloom’s Level: 2. Understanding
9. The transmitter for the medium spiny neurons of the striatum is
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