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Neurophys Flashcards

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Cells that secrete pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-alpha and IL-1B) in inflammatory conditions that affect the brain?

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Microglia

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Hormone released from adipose tissue that enters the brain and provides negative feedback reducing food intake?

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Leptin

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Hypothalamus secretes this when you are stressed

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Corticotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH)

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Process of calcium mediated long-lasting increase in AMPA receptor signal transmission

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Long term potentiation

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Rapid learning by school aged children is paralleled neurodevelopmentally by which of the following brain processes?

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Increase in white matter

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Cortical synaptic remodeling of normal adolescence is also believed to be associated with what neurobiological change?

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Preferential loss of excitatory synapses

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Most important feature of post-natal brain development is increase in what?

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Number of dendritic and axonal processes

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