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Neuroscience Flashcards

1
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What is the brain stem in charge of?

A

Automatic processing

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What is the limbic System in charge of?

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Emotion and memory

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What is the Cerebral Cortex in charge of?

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Storage and higher processing

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4
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Sensory Neurons

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incoming information to the brain (afferent)

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5
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Motor Neurons

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Exiting the brain (efferent)

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6
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Interneurons

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in between the exit and enter (central nervous center)

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7
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Brain Plasticity

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how well your brain is able to connect knew routes

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8
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What is a phenotype

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characteristics passed on through genes

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Genotype

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Genetic structure inherited from parents

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10
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what order do neeural signals travel along?

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dendrite, soma, axon, terminal button

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11
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what is synaptic transmission?

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When a electrical impulse is changed into a chemical impulse

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12
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Neurotransmitters

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biochemical substances that are released into synaptic cleft to stimulate or suppress other neurons

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13
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Heroin and morphine artificially increase these levels

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endorphins

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14
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Schizophrenia is linked with..

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dopamine

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15
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Depression is linked with..

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Serotonin

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16
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Sympathetic division

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associated with fight or flight

17
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what part of our brain is the oldest?

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The brain stem

18
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Hypothalamus

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Involved in regulation of feeding, drinking, and sexual behavior

19
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Occipital Lobe

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Sight seeing

20
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Temporal Lobe

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Hearing

21
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Parietal Lobe

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Touch and body position

22
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Frontal Lobe

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Speaking, making decisions and muscle movements

23
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Hypothalamus

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Eating drinking and temperature

24
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Hippocampus functions

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conscious memories

25
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Nucleus Accumbus

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Reward Center

26
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Amygdala functions

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aggression and fear

27
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Thalmus functions

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Senses everything but smell

28
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Cerebellum

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Judges time and sounds. Enables memory and non verbal learning

29
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Pons

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coordinates movements

30
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Medulla

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Heartbeat and breathing

31
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mylein

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forms protective coat over nerve axons

32
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axon

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specialized for conducting information

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