Chapter 7 Textbook

Question 1

Following brain damage, neuroplastic ability to modify behaviour from that used prior to the damage.

Answer 1

Compensation

Question 2

Procedure in which a magnetic coil is placed over the skull to stimulate the underlying brain; used either to induce behaviour or to disrupt ongoing behaviour.

Answer 2

Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Question 3

Surgical instrument that permits the researcher to target a specific part of the brain.

Answer 3

Stereotaxic apparatus

Question 4

Design and construction of biological devices, systems, and machines not found in nature.

Answer 4

Synthetic Biology

Question 5

Transgenic technique that combines genetics and synthetic drugs to activate targeted cells in living tissue.

Answer 5

Chemogenetics

Question 6

Transgenic technique that combines genetics and light to control targeted cells in living tissue.

Answer 6

Optogenetics

Question 7

Slowness or absence of movement.

Answer 7

hypokinesia