Carrie Complains to Her Doctor About Having Trouble with Physical

question 19

Multiple Choice

Carrie complains to her doctor about having trouble with physical and cognitive tasks that she used to be able to do easily. Her doctor runs a number of tests and determines that Carrie's brain is not efficiently transmitting information. Which problem is MOST likely to be a culprit?

• A) The synapses in her nervous system have collapsed.
• B) The myelin in her nervous system is decaying.
• C) The dendrites in her nervous system are not properly passing along information to other cells.
• D) All of these are equally likely culprits.

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