Ch 49 Pt 2 Flashcards
Grey Matter refers to
Cell bodies
White matter referees to
Axons
Temporal Lobe
Lateralization of speech
Wernickes Aphasia
Inappropriate syntaxes and semantics
Words but not in a coherent sentence
Brocas Aphasia
Difficulty speaking, 1 word sentences
Hippocampus
Memory and learning
Central role in formation and retrieval of long term memories
Declarative memory
Fact and events
Don’t get processed by hippocampus
Nondeclarative memory
Classical conditioning, procedural memory, skeletal musculature, emotional responses
Functions of the hippocampus
Memory consolidation
Declarative memory
Spatial memory
Retrograde amnesia
Can’t remember things up to the event
Patient HM
Anterograde amnesia
Can’t form new memories after the event
Long term potential (LTP)
Long lasting changes in synaptic response
Glutamate receptors and LTP
AMPA and NMDA
Neuronal plasticity
Connections between neurons are strengthened or weakened by activity
Inputs that fire together
Wire together