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Cognitive Neuroscience Flashcards

1
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What neurotransmitter is used for memory?

A

Acetylcholine

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2
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What neurotransmitter if damaged will cause Alzheimer’s?

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Acetylcholine

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3
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What neurotransmitter is responsible for feelings of reward and feeling “high”?

A

Dopamine

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4
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Too much dopamine will cause?

A

Schizophrenia

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5
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Too little dopamine will cause?

A

Parkinsons

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6
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What drugs will damage dopamine?

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Cocaine and emphetamines

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7
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What neurotransmitter is linked to depression?

A

Serotonin

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8
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Lack of what neurotransmitter will result in seizures?

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GABA

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9
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Epilepsy medication promotes what neurotransmitter?

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GABA

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10
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What is the excitatory neurotransmitter of the cortex?

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Glutamate

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11
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What neurotransmitter helps with perception, memory, attention and calculations in the cortex?

A

Glutamate

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12
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What is the master gland of the endocrine system?

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pituitary gland

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13
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What regulates hormones, metabolism, growth, sexual functioning, thirst, water retention and storage?

A

pituitary gland

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14
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What sits on top on top of the pituitary gland?

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Hypothalamus

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15
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What part of the brain regulates temperature, eating, sleeping and the endocrine system?

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Hypothalamus

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16
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What part of the brain influences anger, aggression and fear?

A

Amygdala

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17
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What relays information between the two cerebral hemispheres?

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Corpus Collosum

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18
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What part of the brain controls thinking, sensing function and voluntary movement?

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Cerebral cortex

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19
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What part of the limbic system influences anger and fear?

A

Septum

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20
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What part of the limbic system influences learning, memory and cognitive and emotional processes?

A

hippocampus

21
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What relays sensory information to the cerebral cortex?

A

Thalamus

22
Q

Where can you find the reticular activating system?

A

midbrain

23
Q

What part of the brain carries messages about sleep and arousal?

A

midbrain

24
Q

What part relays information between the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum?

A

Pons

25
Q

What controls heartbeat, breathing and blood pressure?

A

Medulla

26
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What relays nerve impulses between brain and body and controls simple reflexes?

A

spinal chord

27
Q

What is known as collections of neurons crucial to motor function?

A

Basal Ganglia

28
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What is the limbic system important for?

A

Emotion, motivation, memory and learning

29
Q

Stimulation of the amygdala will result in?

A

fear

30
Q

Persons with autism will display limited activation in the>?

A

Amygdala

31
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Damage or removal of the hippocampus will result in?

A

inability to form new memories

32
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What part of the brain relays incoming sensory information through groups of neurons that project to the appropriate region in the cortex?

A

THALAMUS

33
Q

People with schizophrenia are found to have abnormal changes in the ?

A

thalamus

34
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Dysfunction and neural loss within the hypothalamus are noted in cases of?

A

narcolepsy

35
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What are the different ways to assess brain activity?

A

EEG, ERP, MRI, fMRI, PET

36
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The forebrain is responsible for?

A

cognition and motivation (primates and humans)

37
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The midbrain is responsible for?

A

Sensory processes and arousal ( mamma/reptiles)

38
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The hind brain is responsible for?

A

heart/lung and coordination (fish)

39
Q

What part of the brain is most important for cognitive functioning?

A

forebrain

40
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The cerebral cortex, limbic system, basal ganglia, thalamus and hypothalamus make up the?

A

forebrain

41
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What hemisphere is responsible for visual-spatial holistic processing?

A

right hemisphere

42
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What hemisphere is responsible for language, linear and serial processing?

A

left hemisphere

43
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What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex?

A

Parietal, Occipital, temporal and frontal

44
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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?

A

motor processing and higher order thought processes

45
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What is the parietal lobe responsible for?

A

somatosensory processing

46
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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?

A

auditory processing

47
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What is the occipital lobe responsible for?

A

visual processing

48
Q

This particular neurotransmitter is important for regulating impulsivity and is associated with eating behaviour, and aggressive behaviour:

A

serotonin

49
Q

Identify three types of chemical substance that are involved in neurotransmission?

A

monoamine neurotransmitters, amino-acid neurotransmitters, neuropeptides

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