Anatomy and Physiology Quiz 1

1. What is the main function of the nervous system?

2. How will darkness affect melatonin secretion? Choose the best answer.

3. Which of these diseases has a clear genetic cause?

4. Phantom pain is a phenomenon in which someone loses a limb to an accident or amputation, but can still feel pain in the limb after it is gone. To treat this condition, doctors sometimes stimulate nerves in other parts of the body, such as nerves in the face when someone suffers phantom pain in their arm. Why does this stop the pain from the phantom limb?

5. Why do diseases involving abnormally folded proteins preferentially attack the nervous system?

6. What can high levels of blood urea nitrogen indicate?

7. If your pituitary gland was removed, what would happen to CRH production in the Hypothalamus? (Look at the graphic of the relationship between the pituitary and hypothalamus for help.)