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Exam 1 Study Guide Flashcards

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Mind-body problem

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A person is capable of being conscious and rational only because of having a mind, but how can a non material mind produce movements in a material body?

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Rene Descartes

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Described a relation between the mind and the brain

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Dualism

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The position that mind and body are separate but can interact

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Monism

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Monists avoid the mind-body problem by postulating that the mind and body are simply a unitary whole

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Materialism

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The idea that rational behavior can be fully explained by the working of the NS without any need to refer to a nonmaterial mind

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Franz Josef Gall and Johann Casper Spurzheim

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  • developed the idea that different parts of the brain have different functions
  • proposed that the cortex and it’s gyri were functioning parts of the brain and not just coverings for the pineal body
  • proposed that the cortex produces behavior thru the control of other parts of the brain and spinal cord thru the corticospinal tract
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Phrenology

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  • study of the relation b/w the skull’s surface features and a person’s faculties
  • this map shows the relation b/w brain functions and the skull surface
  • criticisms:
    • characteristics such as faith,
      self-love, and veneration are
      impossible to define and quantify
      objectively
    • phrenologists also failed to
      recognize that the superficial
      features of the skull reveal little
      about the underlying brain
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Cranioscopy

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A method in which a device was placed around the skull to measure the bumps and depressions there

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Localization of function

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A general theory developed by Gall to show how the brain might produce differences in individual abilities

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Localizationalists

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People who believed that functions of the body could be localized to a side of the brain

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Aphasia

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Defect or loss of the power of expression by speech, writing, or signs or of comprehending spoken or written language due to injury or disease of the brain

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Alexia

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Loss of the ability to read

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Apraxia

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An inability to make sequences of movements

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Paul Broca

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  • located speech in the third convolution (gyrus) of the frontal lobe on the left side of the brain
  • demonstrated that language is localized
  • experimented on Tan
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Broca’s area

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The anterior speech region of the brain

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Broca’s aphasia

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The syndrome that results from the damage to the anterior speech region of the brain

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Tan

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  • had paralysis on right side of brain
  • could only say the word “tan” and utter an oath
  • had a lesion on his left frontal lobe
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Carl Wernicke

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  • the first notable scientist to dissent Broca’s findings

- suspected a relation b/w the functioning of hearing and that of speech

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Wernicke’s area

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The region of the temporal lobe associated with this form of aphasia

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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AKA: temporal-lobe aphasia or fluent aphasia

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Arcuate fasciculus

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  • a pathway in which auditory ideas can be sent from Wernicke’s area
  • leads to Broca’s area, where the representations of speech movements are stored
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Conduction aphasia

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A speech deficit in which, if arcuate fibers connecting the two speech areas were cut, disconnecting the areas but without inflicting damage on either one

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Norman Geschwind

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Confirmed and updated Wernicke’s speech model

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Disconnection

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Predicts that complex behaviors are built up in assembly-line fashion as information collected by sensory systems enters the brain and travels thru different structures before resulting in an overt response

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John Hughlings-Jackson

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  • observed recovery of function in humans who had suffered brain injury
  • proposed that the NS was organized as a function hierarchy
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Hierarchal organization of function

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Each successively higher level controls more complex aspects of behavior and did so by means of the lower levels

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HM

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  • a patient of Scoville
  • was treated for epilepsy
  • the treatment was successful in stopping the epilepsy, but left him with amnesia, and he wasn’t able to make new memories
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William Scoville

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Bilaterally removed the medial parts of the temporal lobes from patient HM, who had epilepsy

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Brenda Milner

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Revealed that there is not just one memory structure in the brain but rather that a number of neural structures encode memories separately and in parallel

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The binding problem

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Expresses the puzzle that, altho the brain analyzes sensory events thru multiple, parallel channels that don’t converge on a single brain region, we perceive a unified representation of our experiences

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Joseph Bogen and Philip Vogel

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  • cut the corpus callosum and the smaller commisures that connect the two cortical hemispheres
  • this reduced the seizures and improve the lives of these “split brain” patients
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Roger Sperry

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Conducted a series of studies on patients with “split brains” that overthrew the classical view of the role of the two hemispheres and revolutionized approaches to the study of mental functions

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Split-brain research

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Demonstrated that each disconnected hemisphere has it’s own higher gnostic (knowing) function

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Lesion

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Any damage to the nervous system

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Brain hypothesis

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The idea that the brain is responsible for all behavior

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Neuron hypothesis

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The idea that the unit of brain structure and function is the nerve cell

3 aspects: 
    1. Neurons are discrete, 
        autonomous cells that interact 
        but not physically connected 
    2. They send electrical signals that 
         have a chemical basis 
    3. They communicate with one 
        another by using chemical signals
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Theodor Schwann

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Enunciated the theory that cells are the basic structural units of the NS, just as they are for the rest of the body

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Camilio Golgi

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Impregnated tissue with silver nitrate and found that a few cells in their entirety - cell body, dendrites, and axons - became encrusted with silver

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Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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Used Golgi’s silver-staining technique to examine the brains of chicks at various ages and pronounced beautiful drawings of neurons at different stages of growth

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Electrical stimulation of brain

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Causes muscle contractions (tested on a frog)

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Gustav Theodor Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig

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Studied how electrical conduction thru the body might relate to information flow in neurons

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Charles Sherrington

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  • examined how nerves connect to muscles and first suggested that there is no continuous connection
  • theorized that neurons are connected by junctions and that additional time is required for the message to get across the junction
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Synapse

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Junctions that neurons need to get messages around the body

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Otto Loewi

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Demonstrated that chemicals carry the message across the synapse

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Wilder Penfield

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Noted, with Herbert Jasper, that anthropologists have found evidence of brain surgery dating to prehistoric times

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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon

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  • came up with a solution to the problem of identifying who would perform poorly on a test
  • commissioned to develop tests to identify retarded children so that they could receive special instruction
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Lewis Terman

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Produced a version of the Stanford-Binet test in which the intelligence quotients were first used

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Intelligence quotient (IQ)

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Calculated by mental age divided by chronological age times 100

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Multiple sclerosis

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  • a degenerative disease characterized by a loss of sensory and motor function
  • results from hardening of nerve-fiber pathways in the spinal cord
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Brain imaging

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  • allows rapid correlation between symptoms and brain pathology
  • an essential tool for diagnosis
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Computerized tomography (CT)

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  • entails the passage of X-rays thru the head
  • produces a darker image of the brain
  • generates a 3D image of the brain
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Positron emission tomography (PET)

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  • entails the injection of radioactive substances that decay in minutes into the bloodstream so that they reach the brain
  • gives off photons that are detected in the brain
  • 2 or 3D reconstruction of the brain
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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Calculates the location of moving molecules by detecting the electrical charge generated by their movement

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Sympathetic NS

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  • fight or flight
  • activates body so it can respond to an emergency
  • increased HR and respiratory rate
  • release of adrenaline
  • awareness constricts
  • blood in GI constricts, gets shunted to muscles
  • sweat on palms/soles of feet (better traction)
  • blood carries lots of oxygen and glucose
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Parasympathetic NS

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  • rest and digest
  • blood goes to internal organs
  • blood shunted to core of body
  • glucose goes back into liver
  • “reboot” body for next emergency
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Paraplegia

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Bottom half of the body is paralyzed

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Quadriplegia

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All four limbs paralyzed

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Hemiplesia

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Lateral half of body paralyzed (if right side of brain damaged, left side of body paralyzed)

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Hemiparesis

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  • almost same as hemiplegia

- not a total loss of movement, but profound weakness

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Cross sectional views of the brain

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  • coronal
  • horizontal
  • sagittal/midsagittal

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