Examination occurs through a final exam, which takes place at a specific geographical location where you have to travel. This final exam is given on two occasions per semester. Four hours are scheduled for taking the exam. Place and time may change. The decision will be made during September.

Students admitted during fall 2011:
Re-take exam Saturday 2012-03-03, at 11--15 in room 13:029, Blåsenhus. 

Students admitted during Spring 2012:
Saturday 2012-05-12, at 11:00 -- 15:00 in room 13:029, Blåsenhus (regular exam)

Additional exam in August, date will be set later.

Please make your reservation in Studentportalen if you want to take the exam.

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Examples of exam questions

Lesson 1:

Briefly account for the most important ideas about how brain and behaviour are related according to a) Aristotle b) Descrates and c) Darwin.
Briefly account for some attempt to correlate brain size with behaviour and indicate what the result was.
In what way does culture make an understanding of the functioning of the human brain more difficult?

Lesson 2:

Describe some characteristic features of the brain's anatomy.
How can the nervous system be subdivided?
What are the ten basic principles of Nervous-System Function?

Lesson 3:

What kinds of cells are there in the nervous system?
Which parts does a typical neuron consist of?
What is a gene and what do genes do?

What is genotype?

Lesson 4:

What is meant by graded potentials and how can they change a neuron’s resting potential?
What is an action potential?
How is information integrated in a neuron?

Lesson 5:

What are the parts of a synapse?
Which main events are included in the function of a neurotransmitter?
Give examples of three classes of neurotransmitters.

Lesson 6:

What is EEG, DBS, TMS, CT, MRI, PET?

What does ”Procedure of subtraction” mean when you measure brain activity?

Lesson 7:

Describe broadly the development of the human nervous system. Summarize and explain the stages in the brain’s development.
What significance do genetic and experiental factors have for development? Give some example.
How does experience (environmental factors) affect the development of the brain?
How sensitive is the developing brain to injury?

Lesson 8:

What is drug addiction in the brain?

How does the blood-brain barrier work?
Give example of steroid and peptide hormones..
Describe the relationship between stress, cortisol, and the hippocampus.

Lesson 9:

By which path and via what stations does visual information travel?
How are neurons in the visual system organised?
How can the visual system perceive shape and colour?

Lesson 10:

Describe how the three main dimensions of sound are encoded by the auditory system.
How can one decide where a sound comes from?
How is language perception and language production organised in the brain?

Lesson 11:

Describe broadly how the motor system is organised?
What role do the basal ganglia and the cerebellum play in motor behaviour?
How is somatosensory information represented in the neocortex?

Lesson 12:

What main structures in the brain are held to be involved in so-called motivated behaviour?
What is the executive function of the frontal lobes?

What is emotion and what does its neural basis look like?
Describe something of the organizing and acticvating effects of hormones.

Lesson 13:

What is a biological clock and how does it keep time?
How is sleep measured?
What is the neural basis of sleep?

Give examples of Sleep disorders.

Lesson 14:

Describe neural systems underlying explicit and implicit memories.
What changes occur in the brain as a result of experiences?
What affects brain plasiticity?

Lesson 15:

Summarise the importance of the associative cortex for thinking.
Describe similarities and differences between the halves of the brain (the hemispheres).
How is intelligence related to the brain?

What is contralateral neglect?

What is attention and what is its neural correlates?

What is mirror neuron system?

Lesson 16:

How does the brain change in posttraumatic disorder?

Give three examples of neurodegenerative disorders and try to associate to the neuro aspects.

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Please note: Only registered students can take the exam, and are entitled to tutorial.

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