Unit 10 Neurobiology  Quiz
This quiz requires you to read the following passage from WIRED magazine: Apply what you know about neurobiology to the questions below.      


       When [Dr.Oliver} Sacks first paged through Aleksandr Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist, he thought it was a novel. Luria had observed a patient named Sherashevsky for more than 25 years - a span of time during which he had seemingly forgotten almost nothing. One day in 1936, Luria showed him a lengthy series of nonsense syllables; in 1944, Sherashevsky could recall them perfectly. The same was true for stanzas of The Divine Comedy in Italian - a language he did not speak. Though Sherashevsky's memory was extraordinary, The Mind of a Mnemonist didn't focus on quantifying its dimensions. Instead, Luria examined the effects of having a nearly indelible memory on his patient's sense of identity. He wrote the book with obvious compassion for his subject, who drifted through a life in which his own wife and child felt less real to him than the contents of his inexhaustible memory.

     Another book by Luria, The Man With a Shattered World, probed a mind in tragic disorder. In 1943, a Russian soldier was brought to Luria's office in Moscow. A bullet had torn into the left occipito-parietal region of the young man's brain, and scar tissue had eaten into the surrounding cortex. Waking up in a field hospital, the soldier had seen a doctor approach him and ask, "How goes it, Comrade Zasetsky?" The question made no sense to him. It was only after the doctor repeated it several times that the strange sounds resolved into words. When asked to raise his right hand, he was unable to find it. Luria asked him what town he was from, and he replied, "At home ... there's ... I want to write ... but just can't."
Clearly, Zasetsky's brain had crashed. To help him, Luria needed to find a way in, conspiring with the only part of his mind that was still intact: the witnessing soul at the center of the storms in his cortex.

     With tremendous effort, Luria and his assistants taught Zasetsky how to read and write again. At first, he couldn't even hold a pencil. The breakthrough came when Luria suggested that he try writing without thinking, allowing the "kinetic melody" of the movements - still remembered in his muscles - to carry his hand along. Slowly, it worked, and Zasetsky began to write out what his mind felt like from the inside. It took him all day to finish half a page, but over the next three decades, he managed to complete a diary more than 3,000 pages long. The Man With a Shattered World was composed as a fugue for two voices: that of the doctor, with his comprehensive knowledge of neuroanatomy, and the other of his patient, who had written that he hoped one day "perhaps someone with expert knowledge of the human brain will understand my illness."
Last Name, First Name *
Identify the part of the brain involved with Sherashevsky’s extraordinary memory *
 Explain how the location of memory was first deduced. *
 Explain the general process  starting at the neuronal level  that allowed for  Zasetsky's autobiographical driven recovery *
From his first reported symptoms, how could Zasetsky's handedness be deduced and explain why he couldn’t find his hand initially *
 Suggest how this person’s brain damage could be used as evidence for  brain localization *
  Deduce with reasons parts of Mr. Zasetsky’s brain you would expect were NOT injured. *
  In the process of digesting fats; triglycerides are broken apart in a hydrolysis reaction into monoglycerides and 2 fatty acids.  Outline the process for the two molecule types to be  absorbed into the intestinal cells and ultimately end up in the capillaries. *
 A. In regards to the question #3; if the answer was fully answered without any further references, deduce what your neurons and pathways  associated with this knowledge look like and function.  Explain why  were you capable of answering this? *
Answer 4A or 4B
 If in the question #3, you were not able to answer this question but could have answered this last year; deduce why this question was difficult to answer without having to  refer to last year's notes. If you didn't know it last year, explain what the likely process occurring in your brain and why this will need to be reinforced frequently by quizzing yourself. *
Answer 4B or 4A only
Mnemonic devices, like ROYGBIV: Red; Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue Indigo, Violet light waves of  the visible light spectrum,  are good ways to cue memory. List the structured and functions of the brain and list your own mnemonic that corresponds to structures and functions of the brain *
 Explain how the sleep wake cycle is achieved and indicate how sleep deprivation can cause poor memory/ disorientation. *
Suggest with a reason why circadian rhythms are  important *
Identify any other topics from this unit that were NOT asked on this quiz *
How much sleep have for the past three days *
Have you done any preparation on this topic since last week? *
If you answered yes in the previous questions, what did you do to prepare? *
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Did you follow any of the advice in the handouts given to you on learning and memory? *
When should you go to sleep before the unit test? Why?   Identify the hormone involved and explain why in relationship to this specific blood hormone levels *
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