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Week 5 Ch. 3 Lecture Flashcards

1
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How are NT released to synaptic cleft?

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The shift in positivity from the Na+ AP runninging down the axon causes vesicles in the terminal buttons containing neurotransmitter to move to end of terminal branch and the membrane of vesicle will fuse with the terminal membrane and release the neurotransmitters into the synatic cleft.

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Where is the motor cortex found

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frontal lobe

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Role of astrocytes

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  • Has extensions that support the neurone and help hold it in place.
  • axon guidance and synapse support
  • Plays a role in providing nutrients and supports blood brain barrier.
  • Helps surround capillaries and further protecting the brain from other substances getting in.
  • May also play a role in mediating communication in the nervous system.
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What is Prosopagnosia

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face blindness - unable to recognize faces due to dysfunction of fusiform face area

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What is an action potential?

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brief shift in electrical charge that travels along the axon

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What might damage to one side of parietal lobe cause?

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hemineglect

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Name the parts of the neuron

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Where is lymbic system found

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Medial temporal lobe’s

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Why is it important for NT to be deactivated?

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When NT have done there job after binding to receptor they are released to synaptic cleft but they could bind again which could overstimulate the post synaptic neuron and decreases performance of synaptic cleft, so need to clear up the NT thar have been released to the cleft.

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what primary message carrier between the brain and body?

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spinal chord

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what are the three major parts of the brain?

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  • Forebrain
  • Midbrain
  • Hindbrain
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Describe the receptors on the post synaptic membrane

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ion channel proteins embedded in the post synaptic membrane have receptor sites that allows specific neurotransmitters the bind to their site which alters the flow of ions in and out of the post synaptic membrane

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What are the four sections of the cerebral cortex?

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  • frontal lobe
  • occipital lobe
  • parietal lobe
  • temporal lobe
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What is the resting potential of nerve conduction?

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-70mV

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Gluteus

Gabby

Aced the

End

Service

Nore

Doped it

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Glutamate (glutamic acid)

GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)

Acetylcholine (ACh)

Norepinephrine

Serotonin

Dopamine

Endorphin

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What happens when sodium passively enters the neuron through its channels?

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increases the positive voltage inside the neuron

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pseudo unipolar neuron function?

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They are sensory neurons. The ones found in the dorsal root ganglia, and majority of those in cranial nerve sensory ganglia carry information about touch, vibration, proprioception, pain and temperature to spinal chord for immediate reaction and also carry up to brain for processing.

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What are some disorders associated with malfunctioning endorphin?

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  • oversupply: insensitivity to pain
  • undersupply: pain hypersensitivity; immune problems
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How does have myelin make nerve conduction faster?

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This is faster because Na+ dissipates under myelin sheath to the nodes of ranvier must faster than what it would take for the channels to open if there was no myelin.

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which neurotransmitters are inhibitory?

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  • GABA
  • serotonin
  • endorphin
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What are the key ions in nerve conduction?

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  • Na+
  • K+
  • somewhat A-
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22
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what are disorders associated with malfunctioning serotonin?

Sir Rotten

A

depression & sleeping and eating disorders

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Describe the sodium-potassium pump

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embedded in the membrane and require energy to pump out 3 Na+ and bring in 2 K+ - brings neuron back to resting potential

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Role of microglial cells

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  • They remove damaged neurons and infections and are important for maintaining the health of the CNS.
  • Gets rid of waste materials by engulfing them.
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Describe the sympathetic nervous system

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  • Generally activates
  • Fight or flight response
  • Asked to prepare the body for stressful situation Engaging all the systems organisms resources to respond to the threat
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What is the major function of dopamine?

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  • inhibitory and excitatory
  • invovled in voluntary movement, emotional arousal, learning, motivation, experiencing pleasure
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Describe saltatory conduction

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The propagation of action potentials along myelinated axons from one node of Ranvier to the next node, increasing the conduction velocity of action potentials.

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Describe the terminal buttons

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The small knobs at the end of an axon that release chemicals called neurotransmitters. The terminal buttons form the Presynaptic Neuron of the synapse

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How does Cl- moving into the post synaptic neuron alter its voltage?

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Cl- moving into internal space of the post synaptic neuron will cause further decrease in the internal voltage and as it dissipates to the beginning of the axon it will decrease the likelihood the threshold to be acheived for an AP to occur due to depolarization.

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Temporel lobe function

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  • hearing
  • processing speech and comrehending language
  • recognizing faces
  • memory
  • emotion
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Myelin sheath function

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  • This myelin sheath allows electrical impulses to transmit quickly and efficiently along the nerve cells
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What is the major function of glutamate?

Good Mate

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  • Excitatory
  • found throughout all the brain
  • Involved in the control of all behaviours, especially important in learning and memory
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When does the voltage change from -70mV to +40mV?

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At the site where sodium ions rush in to the interior of the cell passivelt through their channels and cause a significant increase in the positiviely interiorly

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Why is the inside of a neuron more negative?

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The concentration of Na+ is greater on the outside than that of the K+ concentration on the inside.

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Describe the synaptic cleft

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microscopic gap between pre-and-postsynaptic neurons; terminal button and dendrites respectively.

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What are the three primary types of neurons?

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  • motor neurons
  • sensory neurons
  • inter-neurons
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Which neurtransmitters are excitatory?

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  • glutamate
  • Acetylcholine
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What parts make up the hindbrain?

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  • medulla
  • pons
  • cerebellum
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Name given to neuron recieving NT

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postsynaptic neuron

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40
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Which ions cause excitatory post synaptic potential?

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Na+ causing depolarization

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41
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Where is the prefrontal cortex found

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frontal lobe

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What is the major function of GABA?

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  • Inhibitory
  • found throughout the brain
  • involved in controlling all behaviours; especially important in anxiety and motor control
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What is the action potential of nerve conduction called?

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depolarization

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44
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What are some disorders associated with malfunctioning GABA?

ABBA

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Destruction of GABA producing neurons in hungtingtons disease produces tremors and loss of motor control as well as personality changes

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Which ions cause inhibitory post synaptic potential?

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K+ & Cl- causing hyperpolarization

46
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What disorders are associated with malfunctioning ACh?

A

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  • undersupply: memory loss in Alzheimers disease
  • oversupply: muscle contractions; convulsions
47
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In the nerve conduction when is the neuron in hyperpolarization?

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absolute refractory period

48
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Describe the peripheral system

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  • Made up of neurons with long axons and dendrites
  • Branches out from the spinal cord and the brain to reach the extremities of the body
49
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What pump is used in nerve conduction?

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sodium-potassium pump

50
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Describe the myelin sheath

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  • Insulating layer, or sheath that forms around nerves, including those in the brain and spinal cord.
  • It is made up of protein and fatty substances.
51
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Describe summation

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is the process that determines whether or not an action potential will be generated by the combined effects of excitatory and inhibitory signals, both from multiple simultaneous inputs, and from repeated inputs

52
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The 2 parts of the nervous system

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  • central nervous system
  • peripheral nervous system
53
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What are the steps in nerve conduction?

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54
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What is the permability of an neuron membrane?

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selectively permeable

55
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How are NT deactivated?

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  • Chemical breakdown from enzymes present in synaptic cleft
  • recycles due to reuptake into presynaptic terminal membrane where it is once again stored in vesicle to be released when AP comes.
56
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What type of model is the NT and receptor sites?

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lock & key model

57
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describe the absolute refractory period

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A period where it is completely impossible for another action potential to be activated, regardless of the size of the trigger (stimulus). This is because the sodium channels are inactivated and remain that way until hyperpolarisation occurs to allow Na+ to dissipate down the axon and let the sodium-patassium pump serve its purpose.

58
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Describe the parasympathetic nervous system

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  • Generally inhibits
  • Maintaining normal functions
  • Asked to call nobody after emergency a stressful situation has ended
59
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What are some disorders associated with malfunctioning dopamine?

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  • undersupply: parkinsons disease and depression
  • oversupply: schizophrenia
60
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What is the function of the autonomic nervous system?

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  • Controls smooth muscles cardiac muscles and glands
  • Basically involuntary muscle movements
61
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What are the 4 types of glial cells?

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  • astrocyte
  • microglial cell
  • oligodendrocytes
  • ependymal cells
62
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Role of Ependymal cells

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  • Found mostly in ventricles
  • help filter blood
  • manufacture and regulate cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) which provide nutrient to CNS and some cushioning.
  • Bathes the brain and spinal chord in protective layer.
63
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How does Na+ moving into the post synaptic neuron alter its voltage?

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Depolarizes the post synaptic neuron by increasing the positivity of voltage inside and bringing some postivity with it as it dissipates towards the axon start making it more likely to achieve the neccessary threshold for an AP to occur at the start if the axon.

64
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parietal function

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  • sensory touch info
  • visual attention
  • spatial reasoning
65
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How does the AP move down the axon?

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If -55mV threshold is met, a sodium channel at that threshold position will open and Na+ ions will rush in a dissipate down the axon increasing the positivity in the direction it moves so as to open sodium channels as it moves down the axon, and K+ channels, and process goes all the way to terminal buttons.

66
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What messages to sensory neurons carry?

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Messages to the CNS

67
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describe temporal summation

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occurs when voltage runs down one dendrite of post synaptic neuron many times over a period of time.

68
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Describe a pseudo-unipolar neuron

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Type of neuron which has one extension from its cell body. This type of neuron contains an axon that has split into two branches; one branch travels to the peripheral nervous system and the other to the central nervous system. Cell body exists in dorsal roots just outside of spinal chord.

69
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motor cortex function

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Control over goal directed movements

70
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What is the shift of voltage during an AP?

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from -70mV to +40mV

71
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Occipital lobe function

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  • vision
  • specialized for: colour, shape, movement
72
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What is the disorder associated with a dysfunctioning basil ganglia?

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parkinsons

73
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What are the 2 forms of summation?

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  • temporal summation
  • spatial summation
74
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What ions are the protein channels specific to on the post synaptic membrane?

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  • Na+
  • K+
  • Cl-
75
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multipolar neuron function

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Constitute the majority of neurons in the central nervous system. They include motor neurons and interneurons/relaying neurons are most commonly found in the cortex of the brain and the spinal cord. Peripherally, multipolar neurons are found in autonomic ganglia.

76
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Which neurotransmitters can be both excitatory and inhibitory?

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Dopamine and Norepinephrin

77
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What is the major function of endorphin?

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inhibits transmission of pain impulses

78
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Describe multipolar neurons

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Possesses a single axon and many dendrites (and dendritic branches), allowing for the integration of a great deal of information from other neurons.

79
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What are some disorders associated with malfunctioning norepinephrine?

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  • undersupply: depression
  • oversupply: stress and panic disorders
80
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prefrontal cortex function

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  • executive function
  • complex mental abilities such as setting goals, judgements, tartegic planning, controlling impulses, adapting behaviour to novel scenarios
81
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Where do neurons communicate?

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functional connection at the synapse

82
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What to systems make up the PNS?

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  • autonomic nervous system
  • Somatic nervous system
83
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Where is the somatic sensory cortex found

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parietal lobe

84
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Role of oligodendrocytes

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  • highly specialized neural cells whose function is to myelinate central nervous system axons.
85
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What is the major function of Acetylcholine

Aces are fit

A

excitatory at synapses invovled in muscular movement and memory

86
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What is the major function of norepinephrine?

pine trees are connected

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  • excitatory and inhibitory functions at certain sites
  • invovled in neural circuits controlling learning, memory, wakefulness and eating
87
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How does K+ moving out of the post synaptic neuron alter its voltage?

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If a neurotransmitter opens a K+ channel then the voltage within will become even more negative, and K+ at start of axon will move to dendrites to equalize the conc. internally causing hyperpolarization therfore making the beginning of the axon more positive and decreasing the likelihood for the neccessary threshold to be met for an AP to occur.

88
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bipolar neuron function

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Specialized sensory neurons for the transmission of sense. As such, they are part of the sensory pathways for smell, sight, taste, hearing, touch, balance and proprioception.

89
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How long is a Na+ channel open for?

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less than a 1 ms

90
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What is the major function of serotonin?

Sir Rotten

A

inhibitory at most sites; involved in mood, sleep, eating and arousal and may be an important transmitter underlying pleasure and pain

91
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what messages do motor neurons carry?

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Messages from the CNS to voluntary muscles

92
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How does passive ion movement occur for the Na+ and K+ channels?

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  • concentration gradient
  • electrostatic pressure
93
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What part of the nerve conduction is polarized?

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the resting stage and resting potential.

94
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What are the key regions of the limbic system? What are their key functions?

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  • hippocampus - memory
  • amygdala - emotional response
95
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How do the Na+ and K+ channels open?

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voltage gated - -55mV voltag must be met for Na+ channels to open which ions can then passively move through

96
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Cerebellum function

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  • Timing and coordination of fine movement
  • balance
97
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frontal lobe function

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  • ability to plan and carry out sequences of action
  • control our behaviour
98
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Describe spatial summation

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occurs when dendrites together release enough ions to summate to exceed the threshold of the postsynaptic neurone at the axon start

99
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Describe glial cells

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non-neuronal cells in the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system that do not produce electrical impulses. They maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and provide support and protection for neurons.

100
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What is the voltage threshold the neuron must meet in order for a AP to occur along the axon?

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-55mV

101
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How do neurotransmitters interact with the post synaptic neurons

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through receptors

102
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Purpose of neurons

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to recieve, integrate and transmit information

103
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What types of neurons make up the somatic peripheral nervous system?

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  • Sensory neurons
  • Motor neurons
104
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Describe a bipolar neuron

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a type of neuron that has two extensions (one axon and one dendrite).

105
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What are the 3 configurations of neurons?

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  • unipolar
  • bipolar
  • multipolar
106
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What are the 7 major neurotransmitters?

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  • Glutamate (glutamic acid)
  • GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)
  • Acetylcholine (ACh)
  • Norepinephrine
  • Serotonin
  • Dopamine
  • Endorphin
107
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What are the two parts of the autonomic nervous system?

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  • Sympathetic nervous system
  • Parasympathetic nervous system
108
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Name given to neuron sending neurotranmitters

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presynaptic neuron

109
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What is the CNS composed of?

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brain and spinal chord

110
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function of basil ganglia

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  • Helps to regulate voluntary movement initiated by motor cortex
  • Involves the neurotransmitter dopamine
111
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Describe graded potential movement

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Changes in membrane potential that vary in size, as opposed to being all-or-none. The magnitude of a graded potential is determined by the strength of the stimulus.

112
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How do K+ channels open?

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After Na+ ions rush in tey increase the positivity of th inside beyond the -55vM threshold so as to increase the voltage moreso and this opens the k+ channels for them to passively move out of the cell to regions of lower conc. to help restore resting potential

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