Regarding Drugs, Electroconvulsive Shocks, and Long-Term Potentiation, Which of the Following

question 25

Multiple Choice

Regarding drugs, electroconvulsive shocks, and long-term potentiation, which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) Gingko biloba has yielded disappointing results in research trials that investigating drugs to improve memory.
• B) Electrically stimulating parts of the brain involved in memory, such as the hippocampus, can increase long-term potentiation.
• C) Rats administered drugs that increase long-term potentiation could remember the correct path through a maze better than rats not given the drug.
• D) If two or more interconnected brain cells become more active at the same time, the connections between them grow stronger with the affected brain cell then responding more strongly to messages from the other cells.

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