Portaal 2 Flashcards
Larger brain than average
autistic people
Brain slice along horizontal plane
axial
posterior aspect of the brain
caudal
dips/folds in brain
sulci
Neocortex consists of
6 main cortical layers
lateral dividing line between frontal and temporal lobes
Sylvian Fissure
Island of cortex buried underneath temporal lobe
insula
brodmann area 17
primary visual cortex
part of limbic system involved most in the detection of fearful or threatening stimuli
amygdala
Disorders of the basal ganglia can be characterized as
hypo/hyper kinetic
Hypothalmus is primarily concerned with
regulation of the body
Inferior Colliculli are specialized for
Auditory Processing
Fluid filling brain’s ventricals
CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF)
GABA
inhibitory
White matter tract, connecting cortical structures across different hemispheres
Commissure
Piagets stage where children learn abou the nature of objects, as well as the nature of cause and effect
sensorimotor
Gottliebs’ bidirectional relationship between experience and brain structure/genes
Probablistic Development
Prefrontal- auditory-visual
Most strongly heritable brain feature
total brain volume
Genetic Disorder, deleted segment of chromosome 7
William’s Syndrome
Gene linked with speech acquisition
FOXP2
People seek environments depending on genotype
gene-environment correlation
Volume of Caudate Nucleus correlates with
level of orofacial dyspraxia
alleles of COMT (i.c.m. cannabis) may explain
small part of schizofrenia development
