Which statement is true regarding strokes?
A. Hemorrhagic strokes are associated with bleeding in the heart.
B. Ischemic strokes are related to excessive dilation of blood vessels in the brain.
C. The risk of stroke increases with age.
D. Hemorrhagic strokes are associated with tumor compression of nerve tissue.
Answer: C
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What is most characteristic of bereavement in young and middle adults is the potential to experience
a. a larger number of deaths than other age groups b. the most deaths in a lifetime c. more types of death-related losses than other groups d. all of these e. none of these
According to place theory,
A. the peak of a wave in the basilar membrane correlates with a sound's frequency. B. patterns of neural firing match the frequency of a sound. C. neurons responding to one frequency are located near neurons responding to similar frequencies. D. sounds with frequencies below 4,000 Hz are processed by parts of the basilar membrane different from those that process sounds above 4,000 Hz.
Which of the following is true of atypical antipsychotic drugs?
a. They produce more motor symptoms than traditional medications. b. They target D2 receptors less than older medications. c. They work much better than the traditional drugs, some being 50% more effective. d. They are sometimes called third-generation antipsychotics.