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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What is the name given to a type of neurotransmitter that travels back across the synapse to bind to the presynaptic axon?	Retrograde messenger	67%
On the axon?	Axo-axonic	33%
On the dendrites?	Axodendritic	33%
What is the name for the specialised area of a neuron where an action potential is initiated?	Axon hillock	33%
Synapses can occur at various places along a neurons body, what is the name for one that synapses on the soma?	Axosomatic	33%
What is the term for when multiple neurons synapse onto one neuron?	Convergence	33%
What is the term for when one neuron synapses with numerous others?	Divergence	33%
What does IPSP stand for in reference to the CNS?	Inhibitory Post-Synaptic Potential	33%
What is the name given to a receptor cell that immediately synapses with a second order cell to transfer its information to the CNS, and generally generates a graded potential?	Short receptor	33%
What constant of a nerve is proportional to the square root of its diameter?	Space/length	33%
Which of the following 3 types of receptor is an example of the above? Cutaneous, olfaction, taste?	Taste	33%
What type of inhibition is when the pathway to the antagonist is inhibited when the agonist is stimulated?	Feedforward	0%
What type of channel needs to be activated for bursting to occur?	Low threshold calcium	0%
When an inhibitory synapse is located closer to the cell body than an excitatory, and leads to a vast proportion of the excitatory current leaing the cell before reaching the soma it is equivalent to division and is called?	Shunting inhibition	0%
What is the name for neurons that are close to where action potentials are being stimulated and so may be excited but not to firing threshold?	Subliminal fringe	0%

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