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Unit 3b Flashcards

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Lesion

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Tissue destruction, naturally or experimentally

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Electroencephalogram (EEG)

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Amplified recording of the electrical wave activity across the brain, measured by electrodes placed on the scalp.

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CT (computed tomography) scan

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Using x Ray photographs to reveal brain damage

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PET (positron emission tomography) scan

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Visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes while the brain performs a given task. Active neurons use up the glucose

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MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)

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Use magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer generated images of soft tissue, show brain anatomy. Can be used for other body parts

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fMRI (functional MRI)

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Technique revealing blood flow and therefore brain activity by comparing successive brain scans, show brain function

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Brain stem

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Oldest and central core of brain

Responsible for automatic survival functions

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What are the parts of the brain stem

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Medulla and pons

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Medulla

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Slight swelling, base of brain stem

Controls heartbeat and breathing

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Pons

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Help coordinate movement

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Reticular formation

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Finger shaped nerve network that plays an important part in controlling arousal, also filters incoming stimuli

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Thalamus

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Brain sensory switch board, receives info from all senses except smell and routes it to higher brain regions (cortex), receives their replies and directs them to medulla and cerebellum

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Cerebellum

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Little brain, processes sensors input, coordinate voluntary movement and balance and supports memories of such

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What helps us judge time, modulate emotion, and discriminate sounds from textures

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Cerebellum

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Limbic system

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Donut shaped, associated with emotions and drive

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Parts of limbic system

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Hypothalamus, pituitary gland, amygdala, hippocampus

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Amygdala

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Bean neural clusters

Influence aggression and fear

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Hypothalamus

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Bodily maintenance; hunger thirst body temp sexual behavior
Helps govern endocrine system
Linked to emotion and reward

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Hippocampus

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Processes memory, it lost can’t create new memories of facts or episodes

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Corpus callosum

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Axon fibers connecting the two cerebral hemispheres and carrying messages between

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Spinal cord

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Pathway for neural fibers traveling to and from brain, controls simple reflexes

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Cerebral cortex description

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Intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells covering cerebral hemisphere

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Cerebral cortex function

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Body’s ultimate control and information processing center

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Glial cells

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Cells in nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons, glue cells

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Frontal lobes

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Involved in speaking, muscle movements, and making plans and judgements

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Parietal lobe

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Received sensory input for touch and body position

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Occipital lobe

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Include areas that receive information from the visual fields

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Temporal lobe

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Include auditory areas, each receiving info from opposite ear o

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Motor cortex

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Area of rear frontal lobes that controls voluntary movement

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Association areas

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Areas of cerebral involved in higher mental functions like learning, remembering, thinking, and speech

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Aphasia

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Impairment of language usually caused by damage to brocas or wernickes area

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Broca’s area

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Controls language expression with muscle movements involved in speech

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Wernickes area

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Controls language reception, comprehension, interpret auditory code

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Angular gyrus

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Transforms visual representation into auditory code

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Visual cortex

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Receives written words as visual stimulation

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Plasticity

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Brains ability to change after damage (most in childhood) by reorganizing or building new pathways based on experiences

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Neurogenesis

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Formation of new neurons

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Split brain

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Condition isolating the two brain hemis by cutting corpus callosum

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Consciousness

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Our awareness of ourselves and environment

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Cognitive neuroscience

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Study of brain activity linked with cognition

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Duel processing

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Principle that information is often simultaneously processed in separate conscious and unconscious tracks

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Intelligence of animals can be determined by…. Except for a few exceptions

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Brain to body weight exceptions

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Who discovered that messing with the reticular formation of a cat makes it extremely awake or non wake able

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Giuseppe Moruzzi and Horace magoun

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What are the egg like structures

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Thalamus

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Older brain functions occur with or without conscious effort?

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Without, suggesting our brain processes most information outside of our awareness

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Who did the electrode experiment and discovered the reward centers

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James old and Peter Milner

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Reward deficiency syndrome

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Genetically disposed deficiency in the natural brain systems for pleasure and well being that leads people to crave whatever provides that missing pleasure or relieves negative feelings ex drugs

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What happened to phineas gage

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Pole went through head and frontal lobes, lived but personality changes, moral compass damaged

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Brain processes order involved in language

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Visual cortex
Angular gyrus
Wernickes 
Brocas
Motor cortex
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Constraint induced therapy

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Require brain by restraining a function limb to force use of other limb

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Lateralization

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Brains sides serving different functions, hemispheric specialization

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Right brain functions

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perceives objects, more quick in making inferences, copying drawings and recognizing faces, previewing emotion, perpetual task, many word association, sense of self

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Right brains damage

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Greatly disrupts emotion processing, facial recognition and social conduct

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Left brain function

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Speech, tried to explain things, calculates literal interpretations of language, one word association

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Visual perception track

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Create the mental furniture that allows us to think about the world, to recognize things and plan future actions

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Visual action track

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Guides our moment to moment actions

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Which part is linked to emotion and reward

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Hypothalamus

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