Lecture 2

Question 0

What is the amygdala involved in?

Answer 0

Emotionally arousing experiences

Question 1

Memory involves?

Answer 1

1. Papez circuit
   2.frontal lobes
2. Dicecephalon
   ( think pretty freakin diddly)

Question 2

Lesions in amygdala result in?

Answer 2

Loss of conditioned fear and new fear learning

Reduced memory of emotional events

Question 3

Papez+amygdala=

Answer 3

Limbric system!!

Question 4

Paper consists of?

Answer 4

Mammillary bodies, fornix, anterior thalamus nuclei (atn), cingulate gyrus and hippocampus. Think Mary Farts At Chloe’s House

Question 5

Lesion in paper?

Answer 5

Impairment in declarative memories

Damage to arbitrary info

Question 6

Frontal lobes consist of?

Answer 6

Motor= motor and premotor cortices 
Cognitive= prefrontal 

If damaged impairment in appropriate encoding and retrieving, leading to impaired remembering of contextual details
However view can help

Question 7

Confabulation?

Answer 7

Statements involving bizarre distortions of memory

Question 8

What does the diencephalon ( interbrain) consist of?

Answer 8

Thalamus and hypothalamus

Question 9

Dorsal medial?

Answer 9

‘Active retrieval’ of appropriate info

Question 10

Intracelluar/ midline?

Answer 10

Semantic memory (facts), memory retrieval

Question 11

Action potenicial

Answer 11

Find answer in book

Question 12

Synaptic plasticity?

Answer 12

Biochemistry of synapses change to alter the effect on post- synaptic neuron

Question 13

Long- term potentiation?

Answer 13

A long term increase in the excitability of a neuron to a particular synaptic input caused by repeated high frequency activity of input

Question 14

Hebb’s rule?

Answer 14

A excited b so much that something grows: changes and A’s firing efficiency of B increases

Question 15

Other mechanisms of synaptic plasticity?

Answer 15

• long term depression
• habituation
• sensitisation