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Biological Psychlogy Methods Flashcards

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What is the scientific method?

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Process of sytmeatically collecting and evaluating evidence to test ideas, understnad a topic and answer questions

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What was Phineas Gage (1823-1860) known for?

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  • Large rod passing through his skull and damaged his frontal lobe
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What is ablation?

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Removal of brain area

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What is lesion?

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Damage of a brain area

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What was special case about the rod passing through Phineas Gage?

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  • Few people have damage confined to just one brain area
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Why distinguishing lesional mania from primary bipolar disorder difficult?

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No clear difference in presenting symptoms

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What is used in distinguishing lesional mania from primary bipolar disorder?

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Prognostic marker

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Is EEG continuous?

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Yes

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What is an Event Related Potential?

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A stimulus triggers a change in electrical activity in th ebrain

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What can be an example of an event?

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  • Visual/auditory stimulus
  • Execution of a cognitive function
  • Motor response
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What must be taken into consideration before recording using a EEG?

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Background noise

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ERPs are evoked by events. What does this mean?

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Electrical responses are time-locked to the events

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What is signal average?

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Noise and electrical reponses not time-locked will cancel out

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How to get an ERR?

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1) Get an EEG signal containing repitions of the event (trials)
2) Get a time window around the event of interest
3) Cut EEG into segments aligned to event markers, then compute the average of all segments
4) ERP waveforms have peaks showing the neural activites

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How can a ERP component be defined?

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One of the component waves of the more complex ERP waveform

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What does each electrode site on the ERP have

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A waveform

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How can waveforms be plotted?

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Scalp map

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Purpose of a waveform at one electrode site?

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Informing which condition in stronger than others at twhat time at what locations

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What is single cell recording?

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Response of individual neuorns or a group (population) of neurons

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WHat is the purpose of single cell/ group cell recording experiments?

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Determine what experimental manipulations produce a consistent change in the response rate of an isolated cell or cell population

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What does single cell and group cell recording enable to determine?

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Determine if the patterns have a casual role in a certain type of information processing

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What is intracellularly

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Records single cells

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What is extracellularly recording?

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Records the activity of a small set of neurons

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How can intracllular signal cell recording occur?

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In brains that:
- Have been removed and sliced
- Anethetised subjects
- Behaving subjects that cannot move

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What are the use of electrophysiological methods?

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Identify the response characterisitcs of cells in the visual cortex

26
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How is cell recording from a human brain done?

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Intracranial electrodes is inserted to localise the abnormality in preparation of the surgical resection

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What is used in intracrancial recording in humans?

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Electrocorticography (ECoG)

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What tasks are adminstered in electrocorticography

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visual and auditory processing

visual and auditory language processing

short-term memory

motor functions

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How are electrodes placed on the brain surfacE?

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Epidurally or subdurally

30
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What is bioelectromagnetism?

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A discipline that examines the eletric, electromagnetic and magnetic phenomena which arise in biological tissues

31
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What happens when electrons travel along a wire?

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A magentic field is produced around the electron

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What position is the magnetic field around the elecric current in a wire?

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perpendicular

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What is the Magnetoencephalography for?

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Direct extrnal recording of magnetic fields created by electrical currents in the cortex

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What is the role of Magnetoencephalography (MEG) in neuroimaging?

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Neural correlates of cognitive and perceptual processes

Localise affected regions before surgery, detrmine regional and network functionality

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Who pioneered the Magnetoencephalography (MEG)?

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David Cohen in 1968

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How does Magnetoencephalography (MEG) detect magnetic signal?

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Current flow from cortical neurons in both sulci and gyri

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What are the similarities between MEG and EEG?

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Both measure the same underlying neural currents

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What are the differences between MEG and EEG?

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Provide better spatial resolution than EEG

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What does MEG measure?

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Changes in magnetic flux density outside of the head

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What does EEG measure?

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Differences in electric potential at the scalp

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Where is the MEG kept?

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Magentically shielded room

42
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Why is the MEG preformed with a dewar?

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Contains multiple sensor coils wich do not touch the patient’s head

43
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What is SQUID?

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Super conductin quantum interference device

44
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What is the SQUID kept in?

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Liquid helium - refrigerant (around -250 C)

45
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What are OPMs?

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Optically Pumped Magentometers - does not require cryogenic cooling

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Advantages of MEG?

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  • Non Invasive
  • Direct measurement of neuronal function
  • High temporal resolution (ms or less)
  • Better spatial reosltuion than EEG
  • Easy to use clincally
  • Quiet
  • Provide a more natural enviornment (e.g subject sitting up)
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Limitations of MEG?

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  • Expensive
  • Lower spatial resolution
  • Low sensitivity depth
48
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WHhat are the precinciples of bioelectromagnetism

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  • Pass current through coil
  • Create magnetic fiel d
  • Magnetic field induces a secondary current to the neurons below the stimulation site (depolarisation)
49
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Why is the coil shape in TMS instrumentation important?

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Determines how focused the induced current is - hence also the targetd brain area

50
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What does it mean if coils have a larger dimensions?

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Create an electric field that penetrates deeper but less focal than that of smaller coils

51
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What is the purpose of a figure 8 coil?

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Focal point of stimulation lies a tthe intersection of the two loops

Is 1cm^2 in area

52
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What is the purpose of a circular coil

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Induces a nonfocal ring shaped electric field maxmium potnetially stimulating a swath of brain regions uner the coil perimeter

53
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What are the TMS protocols and parameters online?

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  • Stimulation is applied while the participant is perofrming a task
  • Low frequency stimulation (less than 1ms)
  • Produce transietn stimulation effects that modfiy coritcal excitability short term
54
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What are the TMS protocols and parameters offline?

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  • Stimulation is applied before the participants perform a task
  • Reptitive stimulation over serveral minutes
  • Results in longer aftereffects (e.g modulation of cortical excitability)
55
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What is pulse intensity?

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Strength of stimulation

56
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What is pulse frequency?

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How many pulses in a sec

57
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What is ITI?

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Intertrain interval

58
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Advantages of TMS?

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  • Reversible lesions
  • May establish causal link between brain activation and behaviour
  • Therapeutic benefits
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Disadvantages to TMS?

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  • Risks to subjects
  • Unpleasant for subjects
  • Only regions on cortical surfac can be stimulated
  • Localisation uncertainity
  • Stimulation level uncertainty

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