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The nervous system

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A communication network consisting of the nerve cells(neurons) that carry messages both to and from the brain and spinal cord to other parts of the body

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Neuroscientists

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Study the Brian and the rest of the nervous system in hopes of gaining a better understanding of Normal and abnormal behavior ( consciousness, perception, memory, emotion, stress)

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Nervous system functions

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  • gather and process information
  • produce responses to stimuli
  • coordinate the workings of the different cells
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Central nervous system

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  • Brian (in the skull)

- spinal cord ( in the spine)

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Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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  • located outside of the skull and spine

- sensory and motor nerves

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CNS

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Receives, processes, interprets and stores incoming sensory info

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Spinal cord

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A collection of neurons and supportive tissue running from the base of the brain down the center of the back

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Spinal reflexes

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Automatic require no conscious effort ( touching a hot stove )

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PSN

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Brings sensory information into the CNS and carries motor signals out

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Somatic nervous system

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Voluntary control of body movements ( nerves connected to sensory receptors and skeletal muscles)

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Autonomic nervous system

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Involuntary control of visceral functions ( heart rate, digestion, breathing )

  1. ) sympathetic nervous system
  2. ) parasympathetic nervous system
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Sympathetic nervous system

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  • Quick response, mobilizing system arousal
  • flight or fight
  • expend energy
  • thoracic and lumbar
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Parasympathetic nervous system

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  • Slowly activated dampening system relaxation
  • rest and store
  • conserve energy
  • cranial and sacral
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Neurons

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Specialized cells for the receptor, conduction and transmission of electrochemical signals

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Glia

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Cells that provide support,nurture, and insulate neurons, remove debris when neurons die, enhance the formation and maintenance of neural connections, and modify neuronal functioning

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Sensory neurons

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Carry incoming information from the sense receptors to the CNS

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Motor neurons

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Carry outgoing information from the CNS to muscles, glands and organs

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Interneurons

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Connect the 2 neurons

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Cell body

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Life support center

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Dendrites

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Receives messages from other cells

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Axon

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Passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands

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Neural impulse

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Electrical signal traveling down the axon

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Myelin sheath

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Covers the axon of some neurons and helps speed neural impulses

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Neurogenesis

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Production of new neurons from immature stem cells

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Stem cells

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Immature cells that renew themselves and have the potential to develop into mature cells

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Neural plasticity

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The Brian’s ability to change and adapt in response to experience, through neurogenesis, or by reorganizing or growing new neural connections
- Brian can recover from damage

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Threshold

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When the excitatory signals minus the inhibitory signals exceed a minimum intensity(threshold) the neuron fires an action potential

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Action potential

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Brief change in electrical voltage that occurs between the inside and outside of an axon when a neuron is stimulated
-creates an electrical impulse

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All or non response

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Intensity of an action potential remains same along length of the axon

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Neurotransmitter

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Chemical substance released by a transmitting neuron at the synapse and that alters the activity of a receiving neuron

  • neurotransmitter released by vesicles in the axon terminal
  • neurotransmitter enters synapse
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Neurons communicate by:

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  • Neurotransmitter binds to specific receptors on the post synaptic cell that it fits ( lock and key)
  • depending on the type of neurotransmitter, once it binds to the receptor it can have either and excitatory effect or an inhibitory effect on the postsynaptic cell
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Acetylcholine

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Neurotransmitter used by the spinal cord neurons to control muscles and by many neurons in the Brian to regulate memory

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Dopamine

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Produces feelings of pleasure when released by the brain reward system

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Gamma-aminobutyric (GABA)

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Inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain

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Glutamate

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Excitatory neurotransmitter in the Brian

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Norepinephrine

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Hormones, fight or flight response

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Serotonin

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Mood, appetite, and sensory perception, pain pathways ,sleepy

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Endocrine system

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Release hormones into the bloodstream

  • secreted by glands that affect the functioning of other organs( regulating growth, metabolism, sexual development)
  • long distance messengers
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Melatonin

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Regulates daily biological rhythms

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Oxytocin

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Secreted by the pituitary gland; enhances uterine contractions during childbirth, facilitates ejection of milk during nursing

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Adrenal hormones

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Involved in emotions and stress ( cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine

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Sex hormones

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Regulate development and functioning of reproductive organs ( androgens, estrogens and progesterone)

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Pons

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Involved in sleeping, waking and dreaming

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Medulla

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Responsible automatic functions ( breathing and heart rate )

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Reticular activating system

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  • dense network of neurons

- arouses the cortex and screens incoming information

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The cerebellum

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  • regulates movement and balance
  • involved in remembering simple skills and acquired reflexes
  • problem solving and understanding words
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Thalamus

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-relays sensory messages to the cerebral cortex-includes all sensory messages except those from olfactory bulb

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Limbic system

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A group of brain areas involved in emotional reaction and motivated behavior

  • hypothalamus
  • hippocampus
  • amygdala
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Hypothalamus

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  • involved in emotions and drives vital to survival (hunger, thirst)
  • regulates autonomic nervous system
  • helps govern endocrine system (pituitary gland)
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Amygdala

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  • responsible for arousal
  • regulation of emotion, initial emotional response to sensory information
  • plays important role in mediating anxiety , depression, and emotional memory
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Hippopotamus

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  • storage of new information in memory
  • comparing sensory Information with what the brain expects about the world
  • enabling us to form spatial memories for navigating the environment
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Cerebrum

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  • largest Brian structure; 2 cerebral hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum( bunde of nerve fibers connecting the 2 cerebral hemisphere)
  • in charge of most sensory, motor , and cognitive processes
  • surrounded by cerebral cortex and collection of several thin layers of cells (gray matter)
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Occipital lobes ( contain visual cortex)

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Contains visuals cortex

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Parietal lobes (somatosensory cortex)

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Pressure , pain, touch, and temperature

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Temporal lobes ( auditory cortex)

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  • memory , perception, and emotion

- left Kobe : wernicke’s area ( language comprehension)

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Frontal lobes ( motor cortex)

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  • emotion, planning , creative thinking, and take initiative
  • left lobe: Broca’s area ( speech production)
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Consciousness

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Our awareness of ourselves and the environment

- learning , reading , watching tv

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Biological rhythms

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Periodic somewhat regular fluctuations in biological systems

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Internal rhythms

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Endogenous

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External rhythms

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Exogenous

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Circadian rhythms

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  • once about every 24 hours

- sleep-wake cycle

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Infradian rhythms

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  • occurs less frequently than once a day ( more than 24 hours )
  • women’s period
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Ultradian rhythms

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  • occurs more frequently than once a day( shorter than 24 hours)
  • hormone fluctuations
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The body’s clock

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• cicadian rhythm controlled by biological clock in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus (SCN)
- cluster of cells located in the hypothalamus
-regulates levels of melatonin secreted by pineal glad
~ melatonin induces sleep and helps biological clock keep phase with light and dark cycle

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Internal desynchronization

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  • a state in which biological rhythms are not in phase with one another
  • changes in your normal routines can cause desynchronization
  • may occur in response to jet lag, rotating shift work
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

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  • controversial disorder in which a person experiences depression during winter and an improvement of mood in the spring
  • treatments may involve phototherapy or exposure to fluorescent light
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Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

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Vague cluster of physical or emotional symptoms associated with the days preceding menstruation that was labeled as an illness

  • cramps
  • irritability
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Unconsciousness

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Lack of awareness of one’s surroundings or loss of consciousness ( sleeping and dreaming )

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Deep unconsciousness

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Complete loss of consciousness

- anesthesia

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Altered states of consciousness

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State of awareness that differ from one’s usual waking state ( hypnosis, drug use)

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Rapid eye movement

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Characterized by eye movement, loss of muscle tone , and dreaming

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Non -rem sleep

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Characterized by fewer eye movements than in REM

  • divided into 4 stages with different brain waves
  • relaxed brain associated with aloha waves
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Stage 1:

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Feel on the edge of consciousness (alpha waves) light sleep

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Stage 2:

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Presence of sleep spindles; minor noises won’t disturb you

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Stage 3:

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Delta waves begin; breathing and pulse have slowed down; hard to be awaken

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Stage 4:

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Delta waves predominant; deep sleep ; most likely stage for sleepwalking ( 30-40 min to reach)

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REM:

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Increased eye movement, increased respiration and heart rate, loss of muscle tone , dreaming ( last on average of 20 mins)

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Why we sleep

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• exact function of sleep unclear but allows for certain processes to occur

  • body eliminates waste products from muscles
  • repairs cells
  • conserves and replenishes energy stores
  • strengthens immune system
  • recovers abilities lost during the day
  • necessary for normal mental functioning
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Chronic sleep deprivation

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Increased cortisol levels which can impair neurons involved in learning and memory

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Chronic insomnia

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Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep; about 10% of adults have this

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Sleep apnea

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Disorder in which breathing briefly stops during sleep, causing person to choke and gasp and momentarily awaken

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Narcolepsy

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Disorder involving sudden and unpredictable day time attacks of sleepiness or lapses into REM sleep ( can last 5-30mins)
-maybe caused by degeneration of neurons in the hypothalamus

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REM behavior disorder

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Muscle paralysis associated with REM sleep does not occur , sleep (mostly males ) may “act out” their dreams

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Benefits of sleep: memory consolidation

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Process by which the synaptic changes associated with the recently stored memories become durable and stable, causing memory to become more reliable

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Psychoactive drug

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A substance that alters perception, mood, thinking, memory , or behavior by changing the body’s biochemistry

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1.) stimulants

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•drugs that speed up activity in the CNS
-feelings of excitement, confidence , euphoria
- increased doses can result in jittering , anxiety, hyper-alertness, convulsions, heart failure , and death
Ex: nicotine, caffeine

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2.) depressants

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-drugs that slow down activity in the CNS
• feel calm and drowsy, reduce guilt , anxiety and tension
•enhance activity of GABA
•very kings can result in irregular heartbeats, convulsions, death
EX: alcohol, tranquilizer)

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3.) opiates

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  • drugs , derived from opium poopy , that relieve pain and commonly produce euphoria
    • can enhance transmission of dopamine
    EX: heroin, morphine
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4.) psychedelic drugs

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Drugs that produce hallucinations, change thought processes or disrupt the normal perception of time and space
Ex: LSD , mescaline

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Anabolic steroids

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Synthetic derivatives of testosterone that are taken by pill or injection; used to increase muscle mass and strength

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Marijuana

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Contains tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) related to mild euphoria , relaxation, intense sensations and reduced pain and various cognitive deficits 
- used medically to reduce nausea for chemo and seizures
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Physiology of drug effects

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•psychoactive drugs produce their effects by acting on brain neurotransmitter

  • increased/ decrease release of NT
  • prevent reabsorption of excess NT
  • block effects of NT on receiving cells
  • bind to receptors that would ordinarily be triggered by NT
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Sensation

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The detection, by sense organs, of physical energy emitted or reflected by physical objects
- Brian receives input from the sensory organs

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Perception

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The process by which the brain organizes and interprets sensory information
- the brain makes sense out of the input from sensory organs

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Reception

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Stimulation of sensory receptors by energy

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Transduction

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Transforming physical energy into electrical energy

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Transmission

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Delivering neural information to the brain

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Physical stimulus

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•energy that produces a response in a sense organ

-light , sound , texture , odor

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Sensory receptors

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Specialized cells that detect and convert physical energy in the environment or the body to electrical energy that can be transmitted as nerve impulses to the brain

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Photoreceptors

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Light

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Chemoreceptors

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Taste and smell

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Mechanoreceptors

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Touch and pressure

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Thermoreceptors

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Temperatures

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Nociceptors

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Pain

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Electroreceptors

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Electrical currents

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Magneto receptors

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Magnetic fields

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Anatomical coding

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Doctrine of specific nerve energies statuses that different sensory modalities exist because signals received by the sense organs stimulate different nerve pathways leading to different areas of the brain

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Functional coding

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  • particular receptors fore or are inhibited in the presence of certain stimuli
  • codes relate to which cells , how many and the rate and pattern of firing
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Bottom - up processing

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Taking sensory information, integrating it, and sending it to the brain for interpretation

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Top- down processing

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Using models ideas and expectations to interpret sensory information

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Sensory adaptation

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The reduction or disappearance of sensory responsiveness when stimulation is unchanging or repetitious

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Sensory overload

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Overstimulation of the senses

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Selective attention

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The focusing of attention on selected aspects of the environment and the blocking out of others

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Inattentional blindness

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-failure to consciously perceive something you are looking at because you are not attending to it

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Hue

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Dimension of visual experience specified by color names and related to the wavelength of light 400 nm- 700 nm

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Brightness

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Lightness or luminance; dimension of visual experience related to the amount (intensity) of light emitted from or reflected by an object

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Saturation

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Vividness or purity of color; dimension of visual experience related to the complexity of light waves

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Cornea

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Protects the eye and bends incoming light rays toward a lens

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Lens

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Becomes more of less curved to focus light on objects

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Iris

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Gives eye it’s color

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Pupil

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I round opening of the eye

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Fovea

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Center of retina ( vision is sharpest here)

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Retina

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Neural tissues lining the back of the eyeball’s interior , which contains the receptors for vision

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Rods

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Visual receptors that respond to dim light

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Comes

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Visual receptors involved in color vision

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Ganglion cells

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Neurons in the retina , which gather information from receptor cells ( bipolar cells)

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Trichromatic theory ( young -helmholtz)

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•theory of color perception that processes 3 mechanisms in the visual system , each sensitive to a certain range of wavelengths

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Opponent - process theory

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A theory of color perception that assumes that the visual system treats pair of color as opposing or antagonistic

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