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Unit 3- Brain Flashcards

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Interneuron

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Communicate between motor and sensory neurons

- in brain and spinal chord

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Axon

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Where the electrical method takes place

- connects soma to axon terminal

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Action potential

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Where positive ions rush into the axon

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Refractory period

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Positive ions get kicked out

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Motor neuron

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Movement

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Dendrite

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Where a message enters the cell

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Threshold

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N

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Reuptake

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Neurotransmitter goes back into the axon terminal where it came from

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Sensory neuron

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Senses

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Soma

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Contains all cell parts

-cell body

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All-or-None

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Neuron can not partially fire, it completely fires or doesn’t fire at all

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Glial cells

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Cells that protect and nourish the neurons

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Myelin sheath

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Protects axon and helps message travel faster

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Synapse

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Gap/space between neurons

-dendrite of one and axon terminal of another

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Resting potential

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Negative ions are inside axon, positive ions are outside, no movement

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Endorphins

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Pain killing, make you happy, exercise

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Glutamate

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Excitatory- send messages forward

-if injured, can have seizures, migraines, sensitivity to light/sound

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Epinephrine

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Emergency (flight or fight), allergic reaction

-can get in depressed mood or have fatigue if injured

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Dopamine

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Movement, attention, learning, emotion

-if injured can cause parkinsons (shaking) disease or schizophrenia (delusions/paranoia)

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Acetylcholine

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Memory, muscle contraction

-if injures may cause Alzheimer’s disease or muscle paralysis

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Serotonin

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Mood, sleep, hunger, attention

-if injured, can cause depression or ADD/ADHD

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GABA

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Inhibitory -stops messages

-if injured, can cause seizures, tremor, or insomnia

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Central NS

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Info from body to brain

-brain and spine

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Sympathetic NS

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Stress response

-part of peripheral NS and autonomic

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Peripheral NS

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Off to side

-includes autonomic and somatic

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Somatic NS

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Body, voluntary motions

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Autonomic NS

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Automatic/involuntary body functions

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Parasympathetic NS

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Peace

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Reflex

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Automatic responses to stimuli

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Hormones

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Chemical messengers

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Parathyroid gland

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In neck, regulates calcium levels

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Pituitary gland

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In brain, controls growth and is master gland

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Adrenal gland

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In kidneys and back, controls adrenalin -emergency response

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Pineal gland

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In brain, controls circadian rhythms and melatonin

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Melatonin

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Z

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Thyroid gland

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In neck, controls metabolism

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Lesion

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Destroy

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EEG

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Measures brainwaves/activity

-seizures, sleep, epilepsy

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CT/CAT Scan

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X-ray image of brain

-concussion, stroke, tumor

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PET scan

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Injected with dye that shows scan active areas in brain

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MRI

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More detailed images of soft tissue in brain

-muscle, ligaments, stroke

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FMRI

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Active areas AND soft tissue detail

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Split-brain procedure

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Cut the corpus callosum

-done to stop spread of seizures (2 sides can’t communicate)

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Brainstem

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Connect brain and body and controls autonomic functions

-if injured, can cause coma or death

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Limbic system

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Collection of brain parts that control emotion and our body’s emergency response

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Parietal lobe

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Top side

-touch, pain, temperature

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Left hemisphere

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Language, verbal, organization, problem solving, math, science, reading, order/sequence, analyze

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Motor cortex

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Movements

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Plasticity

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Brain has ability to adapt, change, and reorganize if damaged

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Medulla

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Connect brain and body and controls autonomic functions
-if injured, can cause coma or death
SAME AS BRAINSTEM

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Amygdala

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Controls extreme emotions

  • more active when younger
  • if injured, can cause depression, bipolar, anxiety
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Cerebrum

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Top portion made of 4 lobes -controls higher level thinking, personality, and senses

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Temporal lobe

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Below parietal lobe -Hearing, memory and some speech

-temples

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Wernicke’s area

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Controls ability to understand language or speak in a meaningful way

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Sensory cortex

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Part of parietal lobe

-highly concentrated area of sensory neurons

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Neurogenesis

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Forming new neurons

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Pons

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Bridge/connector between the brainstem, cerebellum, and cerebrum
-if injured, there will be a problem with coordinating basic body movements

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Cerebellum

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Controls balance, coordination, muscle control, and muscle memory
-if injured, can cause lack of balance and coordination

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Frontal lobe

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Controls higher level thinking, planning, judgement, decision making, personality, mood, and voluntary movements
-includes frontal association area which controls all (above) but movement which is also called the prefrontal cortex

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Occipital lobe

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Vision

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Broca’s area

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Part of brain that controls physical ability to speak

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Association area

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Integrate information

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Hippocampus

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Short term to long term memory

-if injured, remembers nothing beyond short term

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Hypothalamus

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Maintains temperature and stable emotions or hunger and feelings
-if injured, can cause difficulty maintaining body temperature or appetite changes

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Reticular formation (RAS)

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Same as pineal; in control or circadian rhythms and level of alertness or arousal
-if injured, can cause insomnia, excessive fatigue

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Frontal association area

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Part of frontal lobe and controls all that frontal lobe does but movement

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Right hemisphere

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Controls emotions, music, visual, creativity, photographic, feeling/gut

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Angular gyrus

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Ability to read out loud

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Corpus callosum

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Part of brain that connects the right and left hemisphere

70
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Cognitive neuroscience

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Study of the brain activity linked with our mental process

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Chromosomes

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46 in body and half from mom and dad

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Identical twins

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X

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Natural selection

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X

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Dual processing

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Perception, memory, thinking, language all operate on two different levels
-conscious “high road” and unconscious automatic “low road”

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DNA

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Coiled chain of the molecule DNA

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Fraternal twins

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X

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Mutation

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X

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Behavior genetics

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People who study our differences and weigh the effects and interplay of heredity and enviornment

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Genes

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Small parts of the DNA molecules

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Heritability

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X

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Genome

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X

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Interaction

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X

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