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3B- The Brain Flashcards

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An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain’s surface

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Electroencephalogram (EEG)

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Tissue destruction

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Lesion

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A series of x-ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by computer into a composite representation of a slice through the body

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CT (computed tomography) (CAT Scan)

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A visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task (structures and activities are seen)

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Positron emission tomography (PET)

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A technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer generated images of soft tissue (shows brain anatomy)

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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A technique for revealing blood flow, and therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans (shows brain function)

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fMRI (functional MRI)

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The oldest part and central core of the brain, beginning where the spinal cord swells as it enters the skull; responsible for automatics survival functions

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Brainstem

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The base of the brainstem; controls heartbeat and breathing

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Medulla

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A nerve network in the brainstem that plays an important role in controlling arousal

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Reticular formation

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The brain’s sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem; directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla (all senses except smell)

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Thalamus

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“Little brain”; at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement output and balance; helps judge time, modulate emotions, and discriminate sounds and textures; coordinates voluntary movement

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Cerebellum

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Doughnut-shaped neural system located below the cerebral hemispheres; associated with emotions and drives (endocrine system); contains the amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus

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Limbic system

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Two Lima bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to emotion (fear, anger, and aggression)

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Amygdala

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Processes memories; part of the limbic system

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Hippocampus

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A neural structure lying below the thalamus; directs several maintenience activities (eating, drinking, and body temp); helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary glands; linked to emotion and reward; reward center; additive disorders- reward deficiency syndrome: a genetically disposed deficiency in the natural brain systems

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Hypothalamus

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Above the medulla on the brainstem; helps coordinate movement

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Pons

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The intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells covering the cerebral hemisphere; the body’s ultimate control and information processing center

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Cerebral cortex

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Part of the cerebral cortex; cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons

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Glial cells (glia)

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Portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements

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Frontal lobe

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Lies at the top of the head and toward the rear; receives sensory input for touch and body position

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Parietal lobes

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Lies at the back of the head; includes areas that receive information from the visual fields

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Occipital lobes

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Lies roughly above the ears; includes the auditory areas, each receiving information primarily from the opposite ear

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Temporal lobes

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An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movement

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Motor cortex

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Area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations; the more sensitive the body region, the larger the sensory cortex area devoted to it

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Sensory cortex

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Not involved in primary motor or sensory functions; involved on higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking, and speaking; frontal lobe damage- have intact memories, but can’t plan ahead, and also alters personality (Phineas Gage ( railroad worker))

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Association areas

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Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage

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Aphasia

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The brain operates by dividing its mental functions into sub functions

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Processing language

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Damage to _______ leaves a person able to speak and understand, but unable to read aloud

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Angular gyrus

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Controls language expression, usually in the left frontal lobe; directs the muscle movements involved in speech; damage here disrupts speaking

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Broca’s area

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Controls language reception; usually in the left temporal lobe; involved in language comprehension and expression; damage here disrupts understanding

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Wernicke’s area

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The brain’ ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based in experience

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Plasticity

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Aims to reduce brains by restraining a fully functioning limb and forcing use of the “bad limb”

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Constraint-induced therapy

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Formation of new neurons

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Neurogenesis

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Dominant or major hemisphere

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Left hemisphere

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Subordinate or minor hemisphere

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Right hemisphere

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Speculated that separating the corpus callosum would reduce epileptic seizures

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Vogel and Bogen

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The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them

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Corpus callosum

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A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers connecting them

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Split brains

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Researched with cats and monkeys by splitting their brains

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Myers and Gazzigna and Spears

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Perpetual tasks, sense of self, and special thinking are specialized in the _______

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Right hemisphere

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Language is specialized in the ________

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Left hemisphere

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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment; helps act out long-term interests

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Consciousness

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Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (all mental processes)

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Cognitive neuroscience

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Principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks; priming, conscious left brain, and intuitive right brain

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Dual processing

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Enables us “to create mental furniture that allows us to think about the world”- to recognize things and to plan future actions

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Visual perception track

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Guides our moment-to-moment actions

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Visual action track

Psychology (18 decks)

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