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Unit 3 Flashcards

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Learned helplessness paradigm

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  1. Great model for PTSD
  2. One group of rats can control their shocks, the other cannot - perception of being able to escape stress is a KEY PART of experiment - learning they can’t escape
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Learned helplessness effects

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  1. less responsive to shock
  2. less struggling when placed in water
  3. less aggressive
  4. decrease in social dominance
  5. decrease in defensive behaviors
  • ALL OF THE ABOVE ARE DECREASED FLIGHT/FIGHT*
  1. less eating and drinking
  2. decrease in sexual behavior
  3. analgesia - less sensitive to pain
  4. learning impairments
  5. inappropriate maternal behavior

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE INCREASE IN FEAR AND ANXIETY

  1. less interaction with others
  2. increase in axniety
  3. increases in fear-learning

END F&A

  1. Increase in ulcers
  2. Some drugs of abuse are more rewarding
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What is learned helplessness associated with?

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Deficits in escape behavior, which in turn is associated with flight or fight responds

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What is both necessary and sufficient for learned helplessness?

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The activation of the dorsal raphe nucleus

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How do you block learned helplessness?

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By destroying the DRN

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DRN hypothesis of learned helplessness

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Uncontrollable shock “overactivates” serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus.

This “overactivation” of serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus makes these neurons more sensitive to subsequent stimulation, and may also change the way the brain responds to serotonin.

These changes produce the behavioral changes associated with learned helplessness.

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Transituationality

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Once you learn something in 1 context, if you go into a similar setting, you’ll STILL feel helpless

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DRN sensitization is produced by…

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Dorsal raphe nucleus sensitization in learned helplessness is produced by reduced function of 5-HT1A autoreceptors on serotonin (5-HT) neurons.

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What is 5-HT1A?

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An inhibitory autoreceptor.

Function as a classic example of negative feedback, a homeostatic mechanism.

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Where is the DRN?

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Midbrain, brain stem, far back

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Where does input come from if not the DRN?

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  1. Locus coeruleus, norepinephrine nucleus
  2. Habenula, glutamate
  3. Corticotropin releasing factor
  4. Opiods
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What is the medial pre-frontal cortex?

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Collection of smaller subregions, thought to be important for executive control, inhibits lower brain regions, emotion regulation.

Activates GABA

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Depression pre-frontal cortex treatment

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Stimulate medial prefrontal cortex w/electrodes, invasive.

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Anxiety stats

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25-40 million Americans
19.5% woman, 8% men
65% of people w anxiety become depressed, 95% of depressed have at least 1 anxiety symptom

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Types of anxiety

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  1. Panic disorder
  2. Phobia-related disorders
  3. Generalized anxiety disorder
  4. Trauma and stress related - PTSD
  5. OCD
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Bed nucleus damage…

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…interferes with some fear/anxiety like paradigms

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What hormone is tied to the bed nucleus?

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Corticotropin-releasing hormone

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What does corticotropin releasing hormone do in startle activity?

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Enhances

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Waddell, BNST

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the BNST selectively mediates responses to

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Walker, BNST

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the BNST mediates responding as the threatening stimulus becomes LONGER in duration (phasic to sustained)

21
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Goode and Maren, BNST

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the BNST is involved in organizing fear responses to stimuli that poorly predict when danger will occur, no mater the duration, modality, or complexity of those stimuli. Unpredictability to the time component.

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Anxiety treatment options, drugs

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  1. Benzodiazepines like valium
  2. Barbituates
  3. Alcohol
23
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Allosteric modulators

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compounds that bind to a different part of the receptors and make the neurotransmitter better or worse at activating the receptor - other site than GABA site. Other allosteric sites offer binding, so when sites become bound, effects of GABA can either get stronger or weaker.

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Serotonin and anxiety

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Decrease anxiety by increasing serotonin

25
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Monoamine oxidase inhibitors

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iproniazid

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Trycyclic antidepressants

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imipramine

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SSRIs

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prozac, zoloft, lukov, remeron

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Tryptophan

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Precursor for the synthesis of serotonin, found in many foods, monoamine theory

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HYPA hyperactivity and depression

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Selye, theory that overactive HPA -> depression

30
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Sensation

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detecting and encoding environmental energy… INFORMATION

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Perception

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result of organization and integration of sensations into an awareness of objects and environmental effects. An EXPERIENCE…

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Bottom-up processing

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from stimulus to neural activity… Sensory driven, data driven

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Top-down processing

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influence from expectations, knowledge, and surrounding context of what we sense and see

knowledge-driven

34
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Fusiform gyrus

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FACES

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Receptor potentials

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local depolarization or hyperpolarization of the receptor membrane

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Transduction

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process by which energy is transferred into neural signals

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Rods

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respond to faint light, abundant in the periphery, in most of retina, peak just outside the fovea

38
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Cones

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essential for color vision, 3 types sensitive to 1/3 wavelengths of light, not active in faint light

39
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Photopigments

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chemicals that release energy when struck by light. Human rod can have 10 million photopigment molecules. 2 parts - opsin and retinal, BOUND TOGETHER. When exposed to light, BREAK APART.

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Where are photoreceptors depolarized?

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In the dark. Light breaks apart opsin and retinal, cascade of events that hyperpolarizes cell and causes LESS release of transmitter onto bipolar cells.

41
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Trichromatic theory

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we can make everything from red, green, blue. Therefore maybe we have 3 different cones sensitive to these colors.

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Opponent process theory

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we perceive color in terms of paired opposites, red green, black white, yellow blue. Why we don’t see greenish red or yellowish blue.

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Retinex theory

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cortex compares information from various parts of the retina to determine brightness and color of each area. true for brightness alsol.

44
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Receptive field

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part that excites or inhibits neurons in the visual system, ie ganglion cells, cells in the LGN, cortical cells. Could be single photoreceptor, or the entire retina!

45
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Blindsight

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V1 damage, can react to info they report not seeing

46
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Selective adaptation

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neurons in visual cortex may be feature detectors, they respond to stimuli like shape, depth, movement. As visual info is processed, cells may reply to more complex shapes - might have a circle detector or a triangle one

47
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Proposopagnosia

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inability to recognize faces, can describe if the person is old, young, female, but cannot ID

48
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Inferior temporal cortex

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neurons have large receptive fields which always include info from the fovea. Reply to complex shapes. Face recognition seems to be processed in the fusiform gyrus, part of inferior temporal cortex. Damage - visual agnosia

49
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Greebles

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helps fusiform gyrus

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