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Chapter 4: Neuroscience Flashcards

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electroencephalogram

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provide summary of brain activity over long period

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Dopamine

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affects reward system, cocaine blocks reuptake of dopamine, Parkinson’s have low dopamine (use Ldopa)

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split-brain

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cut corpus callous, Roger sperry did for to relieve severe epilepsy for his patients

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parasympathetic nervous system

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regular function

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corpus callosum

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bundle of axons connecting 2 hemispheres

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Reticular formation

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deals w/ sleep, major source of serotonin

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serotonin

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positive mood/sleep/appetite, prozac blocks reuptake = affect mood

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relative refractory period

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axon can fire but threshold higher

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prefrontal lobe

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short-term memory, moral reasoning, mood regulation

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nucleus accumbens

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reward learning

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parietal lobe

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somatosensory strip, where pathway

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ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)

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death of motor neurons in spinal cord

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endorphins

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lessons perceptions of pain/heroin accepted by endorphin recpetors

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action potential

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sudden positive change in axon used to move excitatory charge, threshold

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frontal lobe

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planning/movement, Broca’s area for speaking, pre-frontal lobe

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γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)

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primary inhibitor neurotransmitter, reduces anxiety, valium/xanax increase flow

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glia

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600 billion, membrane covering/supporting

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autonomic nervous system

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sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system

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functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

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detects changes of blood that show change in activity due to need of blood

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striatum

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anterior to thalamus, fluid motion with substantia nigra

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resting potential

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negative, when at rest

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pons

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anterior to medulla, arousal attention

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occipital lobe

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visual stimuli= colour, complex motion, patterns

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synaptogenesis

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production of new synpases

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acetylcholine

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muscle action/learning/memory, Alzheimer’s results in ACH producing neurons depleting

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parkinson’s disease

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death of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra

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somatosensory strip

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processes tactile info from all parts of body

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medulla oblongata

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basic functioning

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somatic nervous system

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sensory info + reflexes

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positron emission tomography (PET) scan

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detects uptake of certain dye molecules indicating areas of increased activity

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pituitary gland

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control endocrine system

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thalamus

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anterior to hypothalamus, relay station for sensory info, lateral geniculate nucleus (visual stimuli, medial geniculate nucleus (auditory stimuli)

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cerebellum

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motor coordination, learning involving movement, enables balance, motor performance/ memory

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sympathetic nervous system

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flight or fight response

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neurogenesis

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production of new neurons

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peripheral nervous system

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somatic/autonomic nervous system

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hypothalamus

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anterior to midbrain, endocrine hormonal system

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neurons

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100 billion, several dendrites, one axon

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hippocampus

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memory/learning, balance, damage causes inability to form episodic memory, spatial memory

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midbrain

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anterior to pons, substantia nigra (dopamine production)

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Broca’s area for speaking

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aphasia: inability to speak

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multiple sclerosis

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demyelination of axons in neurone = vision loss, pain, muscle weakness

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Broca’s aphasia

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ability to speak damaged but other language abilities stay

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temporal lobe

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amygdala, hippocampus, wernicke’s area for language comprehension, what pathway

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absolute refractory period

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axon unable to fire no matter stimulus strength

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amydala

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involved in fear/emotions

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huntington’s disease

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death of neurons in striatum

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wernicke’s area for language comprehension

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left side, fluent aphasia: inability to process speech, reply in gibberish

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