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Section 3: Technology and Neuroscience Flashcards

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1
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What is Broca’s Area associated with?

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Speech and language

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Who was Paul Broca?

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A French surgeon and scientist who provided evidence that speech and language areas are found on the left side of the cerebral cortex

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Who proposed the first neural network?

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Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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Which U.S. president launched the BRAIN research campaign?

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President Barak Obama

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When was the BRAIN research campaign LAUNCHED?

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2013

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When did the BRAIN research campaign first get FUNDED?

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2014

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What is the Human Connectome Project working on?

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Making the world’s largest map of the neural circuit structure and function

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What is a connectome?

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a map of a neural circuit structure and its functions

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What are 3 results of the BRAIN research campaign?

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the Human Connectome Project, publishing of an atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex, and new innovations in microscopy technology

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What is perturbing the brain

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damaging or lesioning an area of the brain to see the effects on the brain

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Parkinson’s disease can be treated by which form of electrical stimulation?

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deep brain stimulation or DBS

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Severe depression can be treated by which form of electrical stimulation?

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electroshock therapy

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How does tDCS work?

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It uses one positive and one negative electrode to influence the activity of particular regions

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How does optogenetics work?

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foreign genes that respond to light are placed inside the brain and they target specific brain areas or neurons

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ChR2 is an ion channel that is sensitive to what?

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light

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DNA sequences for which chemical is introduced to a mammal with optogenetics?

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channelrhodopsin-2, or ChR2

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What does TMS do?

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TMS uses a magnetic field to make the neurons there depolarize or repolarize depending on how strong the magnetic field is

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What do scientists mainly use TMS for?

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they mainly use it to confirm lesion studies

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TMS creates a lesion that returns to normal in what amount of time?

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in a short amount of time

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Intracellular recordings are recordings that target what part of the nervous system?

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an individual neuron

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Why are intracellular recordings difficult to do?

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because they have to target one neuron and neurons are microscopic, making them hard to target individually

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What are multi-unit recordings or extracellular recordings?

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where an electrode measures the membrane potentials of a population of neurons from outside

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When was phrenology popular?

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the 19th century or 1800s

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What was phrenology?

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when a person would feel the bumps on your skull to determine the traits of your brain.

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Who invented phrenology?

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German neuroanatomist Franz Joseph Gall

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What type of science is phrenology?

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pseudoscience

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What is pseudoscience?

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something that is thought to be scientific but has little to no science backing it

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Phrenology developed what idea that became true?

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the theory of localization

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What is the theory of localization?

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the idea that specific brain regions have unique functions

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What was the first truly non-invasive way of recording information from actual neurons?

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the EEG

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Who invented the EEG?

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Hans Berger

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Who was Hans Berger?

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A German psychiatrist

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What decade was the EEG invented?

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the 1920s

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How did the EEG record information traditionally?

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it used to involve sticking metal wires into the subject’s skull

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What does the EEG record brain activity as?

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brain waves

36
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What is a dipole?

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an area of negative charge next to an area of positive charge

37
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EEGs show the activity over what time period?

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a few milliseconds

38
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What is an event-related potential, or ERP?

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changes in the membrane potential in response to a stimulus

39
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What are N170s?

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N170s are spikes in EEG recordings, occurs mainly when met with visual or auditory stimuli, shows 170 milliseconds after

40
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What are the downsides to EEG?

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It has bad spatial resolution and can only detect areas near the skull

41
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What was the truly groundbreaking invention for cognitive neuroscience?

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MRIs, or Magnetic Resonance Imaging

42
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True or false, MRIs can’t be used for other parts of the body and only the brain.

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False, MRI’s can have many other uses, including finding injuries in other parts of the body

43
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What type of atoms align when under an MRI scanner?

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hydrogen atoms

44
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What is an RF or Radio Frequency in an MRI?

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A radio signal used in an MRI that lasts a moment and changes the alignment of hydrogen atoms

45
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What colors are used in MRI maps?

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shades of black, white, and gray

46
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When the hydrogen atoms return to their original locations, what do they send off or emit?

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the emit faint radio signals

47
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True or false: Oxygenated blood has the same magnetic properties as deoxygenated blood?

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False, oxygenated and deoxygenated blood have different magnetic properties, these show up on the MRI scanner

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What is an fMRI or BOLD Imaging?

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A type of MRI scanner that tracks where oxygenated blood flows when brain regions are activated.

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What decade was the fMRI developed?

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the 1990s

50
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fMRI gave evidence for what brain area?

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the fusiform face area, or FFA

51
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What is an FFA?

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An FFA is a brain area solely focused on processing faces

52
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Where is the FFA found?

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the lower surface of the temporal lobe

53
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Is an MRI more or less specific than an EEG or a direct neural recording?

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MRIs are less specific because they track the blood and overall activity, rather than targeting specific neurons and brain areas

54
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What is a BMI?

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a system that allows people to control a machine or device using only their thoughts

55
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What decade did research on BMIs begin?

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the 1970s

56
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Where was neuroprosthetic technology invented?

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UC San Fransisco

57
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What does neuroprosthetic technology do?

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It records from the brain’s speech centers and translates it into speech

58
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How fast with what percent accuracy was neuroprosthetic technology able to perform?

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up to 18 words per minute with a 93% accuracy

59
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What are 2 ways you can take brain activity?

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implanted and wearable devices

60
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What are implanted devices?

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devices that are surgically attached to tissue

61
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When are implanted devices used?

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they are used with people that have severe disorders or damage to their nervous system

62
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What are wearable devices?

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devices you can wear that use external electrodes, often based on tDCS technology

63
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When are wearable devices used?

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they are used with people who have less severe damage and have fewer risks with it

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Why would someone choose an implanted device over a wearable device?

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implanted devices are stronger and have a better ability to record information from the brain

65
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What is computation (theoretical) neuroscience?

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Any type of neuroscience that uses mathematical models, computer simulations, or theoretical analysis to better understand the nervous system

66
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What decade was computational neuroscience first thought of?

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the 1980s

67
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Who do most computational neuroscientists collaborate with?

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experimentalists

68
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Who are experimentalists?

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people who work with actual neurons, brains, or living organisms

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What is computational neuronal modeling?

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the use of computer algorithms or simulator programs to model the behavior of neurons to learn more about their processes

70
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What are artificial neural networks made to do?

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they are made to mimic existing networks of neurons in the brain

71
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Artificial networks have nodes that act as _________ in the nervous system.

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neurons

72
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Finish the analogy: ______ are to AI as neurons are to humans

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nodes

73
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In artificial neural networks, what are synapses represented as?

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mathematical weights

74
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How are artificial neural networks trained?

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input is fed to the nodes, and they compare their output to the output desired and change the weights based on the networks’ output

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What is a deep neural network?

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a highly complex version of an artificial neural network that is capable of solving extremely difficult problems

76
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What type of system was able to beat the board game Go?

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a deep neural network

77
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Go was first beat in 1996. When did a system beat the record?

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2015

78
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How many possible moves are there on each turn of Go?

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10^360

79
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What is psychiatry?

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a medical field that involves the patient reporting on their physical and emotional states to come up with a diagnosis for their problem

80
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What is computational psychiatry?

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adding computer algorithms to patient descriptions to help come up with a diagnosis, made to improve patient outcomes

81
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What decade did computational psychiatry start?

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2010s

82
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What is the goal of computational psychiatry?

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to help improve a patient’s response to treatments and drugs, and to improve patient outcomes

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