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Neural plasticity largely mediated throughthe capacity to rapidly change in number and morphology of?
DENDRITIC SPINES
The uncinated fasciculus connects which ofthe following brain areas?
ANTERIOR TEMPORAL AND VENTRAL PRE-FRONTAL REGIONS
Abnormal emotional expressions such as pathological laughter or crying caused bylesions affecting cortical subcortical
circuits linking:
CEREBELLUM
FRONTAL CORTEX and PONS
Exposure to light effects which brainstructure?
SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS
Where does the neuron morphology in thebrain change the most?
PREFRONTAL CORTEX 17y/o is evaluated for binge eating
associated with a 60 lb weight gain overthe past four months. CT shows a craniopharyngioma that likely disrupts whatstructure? [be SPECIFIC]
VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS
What is an accurate statement about thebrain's default mode network?
IS INVOLVED IN REPROCESSING PREVIOUSLY EXPERIENCED STIMULI
Most likely reason that adults are superiorto adolescents in abstract thinking?
The brain undergoes: SYNAPTIC PRUNING