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limbic 1 Flashcards

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What are the two main regions of the limbic system?

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cortical region and subcortical region

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What makes up the cortical region of the limbic system?

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prefrontal, cingulate, insula, parahippocampal gyrus

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What makes up the subcortical region of the limbic system?

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Hippocampus, amygdala, ventral striatum/nucleus accumbens

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what does the limbic system provide the basis for?

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memory, motivation (dopamine), and emotions, with the help of other CNS structures

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Where does planning happen?

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frontal cortex and cingulate cortex

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Where does cognition happen?

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cerebral cortex

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Where is stress processed?

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HPA axis, hippocampus, amygdala

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Where is fear?

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amygdala

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Where is memory?

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hippocampus, and entorhinal cortex

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Where is the reticular formation?

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In the medulla, pons and midbrain that project to thalamus and cortex

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What makes up the reticular formation?

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several nuculei

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What is the reticular formation send projections to the thalamus and cortex for?

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alerting and wakefullness ARAS

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Where does sensory info enter the reticular formation?

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input enters the raphe and lateral nuclei

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Where do the medial nuclei of the reticular formation project?

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to brain and spinal cord for general modulation

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what are the two views of the reticular formation?

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anatomical and physiological

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What is the anatimical view of the reticular formation?

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reticular neurons with long axons that are modulation wide areas of the brain

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What is the physiological view of Reticular formation?

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ascending reticular activation system, ARAS for alerting and wakefullness.

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What does Norepinephrine do for cortical and limbic system?

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attentional selectivity under stress, focus.

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where does norepinephrine come from in reticular formation?

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Locus cerelus in the pons.

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Where does dopamine come from and what does it effect?

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From vental tegmentum of the midbrain (substantia niagra and ventral tegmentum area) to the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia

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What does dopamine do for the prefrontal cortex/basal ganglia?

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Provides motivation bases behavior

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what projects to wider areas of the brain NE or dopamine?

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NE from single locus coerules hit wide area of cortex, brain stem, spinal cord and cerebellum, thalamus.

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23
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Basically where does dopamine go?

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mostly to the front half of brain

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Where does seratonin come from?

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Raphe nucleus of the medulla going to the cortical areas.

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what does seratonin effect?

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mood, sleep wake cycles.

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26
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Where does acetyl choline come from?

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septum, neuceus basalis, and diagnal bane of broca to thalamus and cortical areas.

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What does acetylcholine do?

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facilitate hippocampal and cortal regions in memory and cognition.

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28
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What areas does working memory?

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lateral prefrontal cortex

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what are the executive control functions of lateral cortex?

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formulation, refining, goals to regulate behavior and solve problems.

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30
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what can determine course of behavior based on various alternatives?

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lateral prefrontal cortex

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31
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what does reward, motivation, and emotional decision making?

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orbitofrontal cortex

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32
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what area will allow you to chose better reward later instead of one now?

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orbitofrontal cortex

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33
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what does the ventromedial cortex include?

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medial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex

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34
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what does the ventromedial cortex do overall?

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generate and regulate emotional responses decleritive memory and habits.

35
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what does the anterior cingulate of ventromedial cortex do?

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chose amond complex actions, behaviorly based

36
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What does medial PFC do?

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enotinal biasing into decisions,, experience of emotion, meaning to perception,

37
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Where does fear conditioning happen?

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medial PFC of the ventromedial cortex

38
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overall, what does the ventral and medial regions of PFC regulate?

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emotions

39
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overall, what does the dorsal and lateral regions of PFC regulate?

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thought and action

40
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Prefrontal cortex provides top down control over what three things?

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attention, emotion, and behavior

41
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how does PFC help regulate decision making and planning for future

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via extensive interconnections with other cortices

42
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how can PFC help regulate its own catecholeamine inputs?

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it has direct and indirect connections to reticular foramen nuculi

43
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two more places that dopamine comes from?

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Substantia niagra and ventral tegmental area.

44
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where is hippocampus?

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near surface of medial temporal lobe, bulging into lateral ventricle.

45
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How many layers of cortex in hypocampus?

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three layers of cortex. Archicortex?

46
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Direction of afferents to hippocampus?

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parahippocampal gyrus, entorhinal cortes to hippocampus.

47
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what parts of cortex project to hippocampus?

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sensory, association, cingulate and prefrontal cortex

48
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what is purpose of hippocampal efferents?

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consolidate processed info into memory to wide arease of cortex, parietal, prefrontal and temporal

49
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three types of memory developed in limbic system?

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declaritive, procedural, and working

50
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Where is declaritive memory?

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hippocampus and medial temporal lobe

51
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where is emotional type of procedural memory?

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amygdala

52
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where is working memory

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prefrontal is associated with working memory

53
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what is declaritive memory?

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explicit episodic and semantic memory

54
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what is episodic memory, part of declaritive?

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autobigraphial, mental time travel, caused by interconnection of hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

55
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what does hippocampus do to episodic memory?

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consolidates and them projects them all around cortex, maybe so you have copies if one gets lost

56
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what is semantic memory?

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non contextual, experience or knowledge about world, representations of concepts etc.

57
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what is semantic memory consolidated?

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anterior temporal lobe and lateral prefrontal cortex.

58
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is sense of self attached to semantic memory?

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no sense of self,

59
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what are the two distinct regions of memory consolidation for declaritive memory?

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Anterior temporal system, and the posterior medial system

60
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what does Anterior temporal system do?

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relates representations of specific entities to existing concepts, ie, person, noun

61
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What does PM system do?

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matches incomming info about contex to interactions with environment during new experience.

62
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What system gives object value or social revelance?

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anterior temporal system

63
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what system gives temporal order and place?

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posterior medial system

64
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what cordinates many regions for a precise recall of episodic memory?

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retrosplenal area of cingulate gyrus

65
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when is memory consolidated?

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During sleep, especially if its emotionally significant.

66
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what are the two major stages of sleep?

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REM, rapid eye movement and non REM (slow wave)

67
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What distinguises sleep stages?

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EEG, electroencephalogram

68
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what stage of sleep is more similar to waking?

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REM, with low amplitude and high frequency

69
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what happens to amplitued and frequency as sleep deepens?

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when sleep depens, amplitued increases and frequency decreases.

70
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is there more REM near the beginning or end of night?

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Near the end of the night there is more REM.

71
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how do sleep stages change with age?

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The older you get the less time spent in deep sleep, and the les rem also.

72
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how much REM does average person need?

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2 hours of 8 hours sleeping

73
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what pathway facilitate transmission of info from thalamus to cortex?

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Cholinergic pontine pathways which are most active during REM and wakeing

74
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What pathways activate the cortex to process info from thalamus?

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The monoaminogeric pathways, cholinergic pathway from Basal forebrain and Orexin/hypocretin path

75
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what come from the monoaminergic pathways?

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NE, serotonin and dopamine

76
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what area of brain regulates sleep?

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the hypothalamus with its VLPO, ventralateral preoptic nuculeus

77
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how does hypothalamus regulate sleep?

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by inhibiting nuculei hat participate in arousal to induce drowsiness and during non REM sleep

78
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what nuclues responds to ambient light and dark cycles?

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the SCN, superchiasmatic nuculeus. Chercadian rhythem stuff.

79
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how does DMH, dorsal medial nucuei of hypothalamus promote wakefulness?

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inhibits the VLPO using gaba neurons and stimulating orexin.

80
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how can we sleep easily during the day when sick?

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cytokines disrup circadian sleep cycle TNF, IL

81
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what part of memory is consolidated in early sleep?

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declaritive and procedural

82
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what part of memory is consolidated in late sleep?

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final consolidation of all memory

83
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what gets excited for waking/cortical arousal?

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cholinergic ineurons, Norepinephrine neurons and serotonin 5ht neurons, they all activate cortex.

84
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so, what part of prain stimulates all the neurons for wakefulness?

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neurons of the posterolateral hypothalamus.

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