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Phrenology

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Studying bumps on the skull, invented by Franz Gall

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Biological Psychologists

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Use the biology of the mind combined with the psychological aspects

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What is neuroplasticity

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The changes that occur to the mind due to life

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What are neurons

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Nerve cells

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What do dendrite fibers do?

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Receive and integrate information

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What do axon fibers do?

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Passes messages through its terminal branch to other neurons/muscles

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Dendrites ____, while axon ____

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Dendrites listens while axon speaks

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Dendrite vs axon length

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Dendrites are short, axons can be long

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What cells support nerve cells?

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Glial cells (gluey cells)

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What do glial cells do?

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Support the billions of neurons

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What do glial cells provide?

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Myelin, guiding neural connections, and “chatting” to help memory and learning

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Neurons transmit information when __

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Stimulated by senses

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Reaction time is measured in

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MS, milliseconds

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What is the primary charge in a resting axon’s fluid interior

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Primarily negative, but includes large charged negative protein ions and small, positively charged potassium ions

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What happens in a neural impulse?

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A section of axon ions opens their gates, and then the next, etc.

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What is depolarization?

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The difference of loss in inside/outside charges during a neuron firing

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What is Excitatory vs Inhibitory?

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Excitatory is like pushing neurons accelerator, while inhibitory is like pushing the breaks

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If ___ signals exceed the ___ signals by threshold, the combined signals will trigger action potential

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Excitatory; inhibitory

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Neurons act like binary, which means

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They either fire or they don’t, it’s all or nothing

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The chemical messengers released when a signal hits an axons end are called

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Neurotransmitters

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Excess neurotransmitters are

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Drifted away and broken down by enzymes, if they are not, they are reabsorbed in a process called reuptake

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What is reuptake

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The process of excess neurotransmitters being reabsorbed

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2 brain pathways that only use 1-2 neurotransmitters

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Serotonin and dopamine

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Acetylcholine

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Enables muscle action, learning, memory. ACh produces neurons deteriorate with Alzheimer’s

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Dopamine

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Influences emotion, movement, learning, and attention. Oversupply can lead to schizophrenia, undersupply can lead to Parkinson’s

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Serotonin

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Affects mood, hunger, sleep and arousal, undersupply can lead to depression. Many drugs used to raise serotonin levels treat depression.

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Norepinephrine

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Controls alertness and arousal, undersupply can depress mood

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GABA, or gamma-aminobutyric acid

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Major inhibitory neurotransmitter, undersupply is linked to tremors, seizures, and insomnia

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Glutamate

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Major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory, oversupply can stimulate the brain to seizures and migraines

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Endorphins

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Neurotransmitters that influence pain or pleasure, oversupply, often from opiate drugs, can provide euphoria by suppressing the natural endorphin supply

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Endorphin broken into prefix/root/suffix

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Endo-produced within morphine. This helps explain the senses emitted from this neurotransmitter

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Agonist molecules ___ a neurotransmitters actions

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Increase

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Antagonists ___ a neurotransmitters action

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Decrease

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CNS is the

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Central nervous system

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PNS is the

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Peripheral nervous system

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The CNS is the

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Primary decision maker in the body

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The PNS is the

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Information gatherer of the body. It transmits to the CNS to make decisions

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Nerves are

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The electrical cables in our body, formed from bundles of axons.

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Nerves bind the CNS with

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Receptors, muscles, and glands

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Sensory neurons are

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Adifferent, meaning they carry messages from the body tissue inward

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Motor neurons are

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Efferent, meaning they carry messages outward

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Interneurons

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Process information

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The PNS is broken down into

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The somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system

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The somatic nervous system is responsible for

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Skeletal muscles, such as when your friend taps your shoulder, you turn your head

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The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is responsible for

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The glands and internal organ muscles, such as the heartbeat

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The autonomic nervous system is broken down into

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The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system

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What does the sympathetic nervous system do?

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Arouses and expends energy, such as accelerating the heartbeat under stress

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What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?

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The opposite of the sympathetic nervous system, it conserves energy to calm you down

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Neural ___ are when neurons work together to get more done

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Neural networks

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The spinal cord is

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A two-way informational highway

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The endocrine system is

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The glands and hormones of the body

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Hormones are

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The chemical messengers of the body, responsible for hunger, aggression, arousal, etc.

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Norepinephrine as a hormone does what?

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It is adrenaline, increases heart rate, BP, blood sugar. Overall, provides a surge of energy

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What is the pituitary gland?

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A pea-sized gland in the core of the brain, controlled by adjacent brain areas

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What is oxytocin?

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A hormone that enables labor contractions, milk flow for nursing, and orgasms

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What is a master gland?

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A gland that controls other glands

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What is the bodies feedback system

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Brain > pituitary > other glands > hormones > body and brain

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