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Chapter 3 - Neuroscience Flashcards

Brain parts

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Neuroscience

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Study of the brain and nervous system

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How can we study the brain

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Neuroimaging (MRI, CAT scans)

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Central Nervous System (CNS)

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Consists of brain and spinal cord

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Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

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Consists of nerves that deliver information to CNS

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Afferent neurons

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Carry signals from PNS to CNS

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Efferent Neurons

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Carry signals from CNS to PNS

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Interneurons

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Found between sensory and motor neurons

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Somatic Nervous System

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voluntary movements, sends info to cns

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Autonomic Nervous System

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Contains sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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Fight or flight response

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Parasympathetic Nervous System

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Brings body back to resting state

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Spine

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Extends down from the base of the brain and mediates sensory and motor information

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What part is responsible to reflexes

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The spine

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Why is the spine responsible for reflexes?

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It takes longer to get to brain because of neurons it has to cross over

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What dictates a spinal cord injury?

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When the nerves that makeup the spinal cord are damaged

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Hindbrain Function

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regulates basic life functions

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Medulla - which brain part?

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Hindbrain

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Pons - which brain part?

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Hindbrain

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Cerebellum - which brain part?

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Hindbrain

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Reticular formation - which brain part?

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Hindbrain

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Midbrain Function

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Helps make movements more smooth

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Substantia nigra - which brain part?

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Midbrain

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Thalamus - which brain part?

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Forebrain

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Hypothalamus - which brain part?

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Forebrain

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Pituitary Gland - which brain part?

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Forebrain

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Limbic System - which brain part?

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Forebrain

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Basal Ganglia - which brain part?

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Forebrain

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Cerebral Cortex- which brain part?

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Forebrain

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Medulla function

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regulates heartbeat, breathing

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Pons Function

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sleep, dreams, facial expressions

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Cerebellum

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learning with movement (playing piano)

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Reticular Formation

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alertness, arousal, mood

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Thalamus Function

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processes senses before being sent to the brain

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Hypothalamus function

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movement and basic drives

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Limbic System function

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emotion, learning, memory

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Pituitary gland function

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regulates hormones

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Limbic System (2parts)

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Amygdala, hippocampus

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Amygdala

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processes fear

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Hippocampus

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learning and memory

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Basal ganglia

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voluntary movement control, motivation and reward learning

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Cerebral cortex

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makes humans unique from other animals
- consciousness, language, thought

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Sensory cortex

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registers sensory neurons (touch)

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Motor cortex

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Registers motor neurons (muscles)

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Association Cortex

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higher-order processing - planning, thinking, and integrating information

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Occipital lobe location

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back of brain

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Occipital lobe function

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Temporal lobe location

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Sides of the brain

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Temporal lobe function

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auditory processing (language)

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Parietal Lobe

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sensory perception (managing taste, hearing etc)

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Frontal lobe location

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Front of the brain

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Frontal lobe function

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higher intellectual thinking

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Prefrontal lobe function

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memory, morality, mood, planning

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Parallel Processing

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Communication between all the lobes to perform complex functions

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Broca’s area - which lobe?

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Frontal lobe

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Broca’s area - function

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Speech production

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Wernicke’s area - which lobe

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Temporal lobe

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Wernicke’s area - functions

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language comprehension

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Neuron

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a nerve cell

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Sensory

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Gathers sensory info

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Motor

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communicates with muscles

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Interneuron

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Communicates with sensory and motor

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Dendrite

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Receives information from other neurons

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Cell body

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passes message through axon IF enough stimulation

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Axon

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Carries the neuron’s message to terminal buttons

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Myelin sheath

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Speeds up neural impulses along axon

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Terminal buttons

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Release neurotransmitters

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Glia

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Cells that make up nervous system besides neurons

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Astroglia

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helps heal brain damage

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Oligodendroglia

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Provides myelin to speed up neurons

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Microglia

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Cleans up dead cells and prevents infections

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Resting potential

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when neurons are at rest (negative charge on inside and relative to outside)

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Action potential

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the process of a neuron firing

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All or none principle

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A neuron will be fired only if there is enough potential

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What is a refractory period

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Cooldown time after a neuron has fired

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Nodes of Ranvier

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Placed between myelin sheath to speed up the message

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What is the synapse

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Space between neurons

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Where are neurotransmitters released

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What triggers the release of neurotransmitters?

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Action potential

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Postsynaptic potentials

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electrical events that happen when neurotransmitters bind to receptors

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Inhibitory postsynaptic potentials

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Hyperpolarization of the neuron decreasing likelihood of an action potential

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Excitatory postsynaptic potentials

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Depolarization of the neuron to increase likelihood of action potential

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Neural network

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When neuron form circuits and networks that help them expand their communication in different areas of the brain

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Traumatic brain injury

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Concussions, spinal cord injuries

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Acquired brain injury

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infections, exposure to toxins, tumours, diseases, stroke

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Corprus callosum

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Connects the two hemispheres made of neural fibres

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Split brain patients

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Corprus callosum is severed to treat severe epilepsy

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Neuroplasticity

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brain’s ability to to make neural connections - make up for lost or injured parts

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Evolutionary Psychology

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studies how evolution shaped the body and brain

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Evolution

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process of development

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Fitness

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successfully growing to maturity and have offspring

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Evolution by natural selection

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animals that pass on certain attributes to help survive

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Darwin’s First Observation

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Animals change overtime

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Darwin’s Second Observation

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Aspects that seem different on the outside are similarly structured underneath

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Darwin’s Third Observation

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Selective breeding can lead to changes in appearance

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Darwin’s Fourth Observation

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Not all animals that are born will mature and reproduce

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Evolution of the brain

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Skull sizes are bigger now allowing for a larger frontal cortex

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