Mid Term Flashcards

1
Q

Flavor

A

Taste plus touch plus smell

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2
Q

Multimodal

A

When different things act to creat a whole experience of taste

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3
Q

Oral-somatosensory

A

Sensations in mouth that give rise to feeling

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4
Q

Gustatory sense

A
5 different tastes 
Sweet
Salty
Sour
Bitter
Unami(savory)
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5
Q

I ripe bananas contain

A

Serotonin

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6
Q

Our brains are at the top of our body because

A

It’s key purpose is to find food, smell and eat it

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7
Q

Our taste system to end result

A

Mouth
Taste buds (epiglottis, posterior, anterior)
Cranial nerves
Nucleus of solitary tract
Brain stem and oral somatosensory system
Spinal trigeminal nucleus
Thalamus

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8
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What is more important to taste than our mouths?

A

Olfactory system

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9
Q

Retro nasal olfaction

A

After chewing molecules are released to the nasopharynx and stimulate receptors on the olfactory epithelium

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10
Q

Anosmia

A

Not being able to smell

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11
Q

Thresholds for different tatses

A

Low for bitter

High for sweet and salty

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12
Q

What is the neurotransmitter that carries out a lot of the action basil ganglia

A

Dopamine

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13
Q

Three types of taste papillae

A

Fungi form (25%)
Circumvallate (50%)
Foliate (25%)

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14
Q

Taste papillae order

A

Fungiform, foliate, circumvallate

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15
Q

Tip and back of tongue different tastes

A

Tip -sweet, Unami, salty

Back - sour and bitter

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16
Q

What does lipid soluble mean

A

Can pass the blood brain barrier

17
Q

What drugs are lipid soluble

A

Nicotine and caffeine

18
Q

How do we identify super tasters

A

Number of papilla and if they can taste prop

19
Q

What foods reduce cognitive decline

A

Fruits and vegetables

20
Q

Acetylcholine

A

Enables humans to move by stimulating muscles to contract. Affects our fight or flight.

21
Q

Acetylcholine I’m Alzheimer’s

A

The neurons that project to the hippocampus and cortex slowly die

22
Q

Nicotine and brain functioning

A

Low doses can increase attention and arousal, high doses or chain smoking can produce sedative effects

23
Q

What happens if you eat cheese, smoke, and drink wine

A

Fluctuations in blood pressure, nausea, headache, rash, dizziness, vomiting, falling asleep.

24
Q

Bed criteria

A

Eat more than usual in one sitting
Once a week for three months
Guilt or ashamed of eating episodes

25
Q

Dopamine is related to

A

Reward

26
Q

Dopamine and obesity

A

Affects our levels of arousal and craving for food

27
Q

Best times to eat

A

9-4

28
Q

People with kidney issues shouldn’t eat

A

Star fruit

29
Q

Flavonoids

A

Create higher levels of blood flow to the brain

30
Q

Chocolate contains

A

Flavonoids, and contain a weed like neurotransmitter

31
Q

Aluminum

A

Is bad for people’s long term health

32
Q

Ecstasy

A

Inhibits mitochondria in your body from producing atp. You sweat and become hypothermic

33
Q

Coke

A

Inhibits sodium-ion channels. Blocks pain, crosses blood brain barriers

34
Q

Emotional pain is similar to

A

Physical pain

35
Q

People and animals prefer Coke over

A

Water and food

36
Q

Name synapses on diagram

A

Look in book