Bio LOA Names (neuro)

Question 1

Selye

Answer 1

GAS => ARE

Question 2

Gall

Answer 2

Phrenology

Question 3

Rene Descartes

Answer 3

Dualism

Question 4

Paul Broca

Answer 4

studied tans brain, broca’s area, speech center

Question 5

Carl Wernicke

Answer 5

discovered wernicke’s area; for spoken language comprehension

Question 6

Jose Delgado

Answer 6

ESB bulls brain, invasive techniques

Question 7

Roger Sperry

Answer 7

split brain researcher, severed corpus callosum to stop seizures, nobel prize winner.

Question 8

Michael Gazzaniga

Answer 8

current split brain researcher

Question 9

Genie

Answer 9

Girl found in extremely impoverished environment, (13 years). Her left brain was very underdeveloped and her right took over many functions of the left, plasticity.

Question 10

Wilder Penfield

Answer 10

ESB on humans

Question 11

James Olds

Answer 11

discovered pleasure center

Question 12

Walter Cannon

Answer 12

Fight or flight

Question 13

H.M.

Answer 13

doctors accidently removed entire hippocampus. Henry Molaison. had both anterograde and retrograde amnesia (89,90) also lost medial hippocampus.

Question 14

Clive Wearing

Answer 14

damaged hippocampus from encephalitis (92) also suffered both anterograde and retrograde amnesia (89,90)

Question 15

Phineas Gage

Answer 15

Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury, localization

Question 16

Robert Sapolsky

Answer 16

baboons, keekorak tribe, rank v. stress. Also fight v flight.

Question 17

Marmot

Answer 17

whitehall study social hierarchy relating to stress.. british social services with universal healthcare

Question 18

Carol Shively

Answer 18

macack monkeys social hierarchy on dopamine and body fat, clogged arteries. dopamine in hierarchy. control.

Question 19

James Pennebaker

Answer 19

PNI. health and writing style, TAT creator, expressive writing

Question 20

Robert Ader

Answer 20

father of PNI. Placebo on rats. demonstrated mind-body connection

Question 21

Marion Diamond

Answer 21

enriched/impoverished environment, rat experiment, longer life and more cortical thickness

Question 22

Tessa Roseboom

Answer 22

dutch hunger winter, chronic stress hormones affect fetuses.

Question 23

Bruce McEwen

Answer 23

mice, can stress make you stupid?, shortened dendrites

Question 24

Shelly Taylor

Answer 24

Tend and befriend, oxytocin

Question 25

Elizabeth Blackburn

Answer 25

Telomeres unravel in stress, chronic stress, faster aging, telomerase heals/lengthens telomeres, from oxytocin

Question 26

Abigail Baird

Answer 26

teen v adult decision making.

Question 27

Jay Giedd

Answer 27

Teenage IQ study

Question 28

Chris Nowinski

Answer 28

Harvard/Football/Wrestling - Concussion research

Question 29

David Snowden

Answer 29

nun study, early stress on rest of life

Question 30

John Money

Answer 30

sex-reassignment of David Reimer

Question 31

David Reimer

Answer 31

Canadian man born biologically male but reassigned as a girl

Question 32

V.S. Ramachandran

Answer 32

Guy who talked about mirror neurons

Question 33

Tan

Answer 33

Victor Louis LaBourne (1861) had a neurosyphilitic lesion in one side of the brain (broca's area) which controlled speech. could only say “tan”, could write normally, died soon after

Question 34

Simon LeVay

Answer 34

Studied HIV positive deceased brains (post-mortem study). Gay men's hypothalamus smaller than usual, resembles a women's.

Question 35

Julien LeMettrie

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when the body is sick, you don't think straight. Materialist

Question 36

Eleanor maguire

Answer 36

London taxi study.16 taxi and 50 taxiless right handed males. 2 years work. Posterior hippocampus growth. Anterior shrinkage

Question 37

Eric kandel

Answer 37

Synapses in memory and learning

Question 38

Thomas Bouchard

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Minnesota twin study 1979. Genetic v environmental influences on development. Longitudinal

Question 39

Bennet omalu

Answer 39

Concussions. | CTE. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Question 40

Oliver sacks

Answer 40

The man who mistook his wife for a hat. Visual agnosia.

Question 41

Giacomo Rizzolati

Answer 41

Discovered mirror neurons. Monkey holding peanut= human holding peanut.

Question 42

Jill bolte - Taylor

Answer 42

Had a huge stroke and 8 year recovery. Switched main brain usage. Left to right brain.

Question 43

Hetherington and Ranson

Answer 43

Hypothalamus in rats. Lesions ventromedial hypothalamus. Food intake increased greatly