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FINAL EXAMS
Chapter 12-16
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Science
2nd Grade
12/13/2012

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Term
Eye blink
Definition
Unconditional Response (UCR)
Term
Changes in dendritic morphology
Definition
Imply new circuitry ??????
Term
Repeated expose to Ampehetamine such as cocaine, what happen to brain?
Definition
long-term effects or long lasting change in brain.
Term
Learning and Memory
Definition

infered from behavior

 

experience change behaviour and can recall from experiences

Term
Types of Explicit memory
Definition

Episodic memory: personal autobiography

Semantic : Facts and knowledge

Term
Emotional memory involves which part of the brain?
Definition
Amygdala
Term
Monkeys cell in pre frontal cortex fire during which task?
Definition
Delayed-response task
Term
Implicit memory - eg. types of memory
Definition
Procedural memory
Term
Implicit memory eg. tasks related
Definition
skills, habit
Term
Karl Lashley found?
Definition

can't localised memory 

memory depends on injury size

related to implicit memory

Term
Eye blink conditioning involve which part of brain
Definition
Cerebellum
Term
Antidepressant drugs increase synaptic levels of what neurotransmitter
Definition
serotonin and dopamine
Term

Stroke

a. change PH

b. drop metabolic rate

c. diaschisis

d. all

Definition
All
Term
MS is loss of neural connections or progresive cell death
Definition

loss of neural connections

 

they also caused myelin cell death

Term

Parkinson affectts which part of brain:

degenerative ___________

loss of __________

Definition

substantia niagra

choligernic

Term
Rats lesion to nigrostriatal dopamine system causes which disease?
Definition
Parkinson
Term
Tay sachs is loss of ______ encode enzyme that breaks down ______.
Definition

gene

fats

Term

Which are due to genetic error?

a. Phenylknuria

b. Tay sachs

c. huntington

d. All

Definition
all
Term
Loss of mental speed, concentration, overal cognitive efficiency is due to impairment to which part of brain?
Definition

*think of TBI - traunmatic brain injury

 

Frontal and temporal

 

 

Term
Psychiatric disorder affects how many percent of the population in North America?
Definition
50%
Term
Which are least likely function to recover after closed-head injuries?
Definition

Social skills

Personality skills

Term
Tremor, rigidity, loos of spontaneous disturbances of posture is which disease?
Definition
Parkinson
Term
Classic feature of MS is
Definition
parapligia
Term
Parkinson may be treated with?
Definition

Transplant

Behavioral therapy

Brain stimulation/ lesion

Pharmacology

Term

Which is incorrect of MS?

a. most prevalent in Japan

b. More on women

c. 50 per 100,000 

Definition
a. most prevalent in Japan
Term
akathisia * part of parkinson
Definition

involuntary movement

changes in posture

tremors at rest (motor restlessness)

Term

Schizophrenia 2 causes atrophy in which cortex?

 

Definition
Frontal
Term
Schizophreia 2 characteristics are
Definition

Agitated movement

cortical atrophy

Disorganised speech and behavior

Lost interest

Delusions

Hallucinations

Term
Closed-head injury is associated with personality and social behavior damange to 
Definition
Frontal and Temporal lobe
Term
Neurofibrillary tangles
Definition

Alzheimer

Down syndrome 

Parkinson

Other dementia

Term
Transplant technique of parkinson
Definition
Embryonic stem cells
Term
Gonadal hormone influence
Definition
organising effects (structures of neurons) 
Term
Homeostatic mechanism is control by
Definition
Hypothalamus
Term
What is oxytocin? where is it release from?
Definition

Stimulate release of milk or related to infant stimuli

Release from hypothalamus

Anxiety reduces oxytocin

Term
Hyphotalamus regulation includes:
Definition

Eat 

Drink

Temperature

Salt consumption

Waste elimination

Term
Medial forebrain bundle
Definition

tract projects from brainstem to basal ganglia and frontal cortex

(part of limbic system)

Term
Reward neurotransmitor
Definition
Dopamine
Term
Mimic facial expression in infant is what mechanism?
Definition
Innate releasing mechanism
Term
Reinforcement control behaviour is a study by?
Definition
Skinner
Term
Stimulating androgen produces cells increase
Definition
sex interest
Term
Motor sequence to be executed
Definition

Prefrontal cortex

 

*note premotor - select movement sequence

 motor cortex - controls fine movement

Term
How many types of Taste receptors are there?
Definition
five
Term
Tast aversion learn is disable if lesion to:
Definition
amygdala
Term
Eating behavior in a fly is due to 
Definition
esophagus is full so it stops eating
Term
Loss of fear and inappropriate sex behavior indicate which disorder?
Definition
Kluver-busy
Term
Daily frequency of copulation relate to 
Definition
increase in testosterone at preoptioc of medial hypothalamus
Term
Motivation involves
Definition

Hypothatlamus

Limbic

Frontal

Term
Andrenocorticothropic hormoone is produced at
Definition
Anterior pituitary
Term
Aphagia
Definition

Lesion to lateral hypothalamus

Person unwilling ot eat

Term
Masculinization of the brain is increase in 
Definition
androgen
Term
Amygdala respond to sight, sound and olfaction and projects to 
Definition

hypothalamus 

brainstem

Term
Biological clock that has been entrained is what type of rhythm
Definition
Circadia rhythm
Term
What happens if kept in darkness?
Definition
Term
Light information reach suprachiasmactic via
Definition
retinohypothalamic and brainstem
Term
Melatonin is secreted by
Definition
Pineal gland
Term
Our biorhythm are influenced by
Definition

light ?

?

Term
EEG of REM characterize by 
Definition

Dream state

Fast display by neocortex

Term
Ultradian rhythym is 
Definition
less than a day
Term
Infradian rhythym is 
Definition
Less that a year
Term
Neurotransmittor responsible for desynchonisation of neocortex 
Definition

acethycholine

serotonin 

Term
Eating, body temperature driven by
Definition
slave oscillator
Term
Reticular activating system when stimulate regulates
Definition
sleep-wake behavior
Term
Daily body temperature changes is 
Definition
circadian rhythm
Term
REM abolished by
Definition

Lesion of parabrachial

medial pontine formation

diminished ACTH

Term
Which function as pacemaker
Definition
Suprachiasmatic nucleus
Term
Dream taken from personal memories but no meaning - which theory is that?
Definition
Activation-synthesis theory
Term
Non-REM sleep
Definition
Delta
Term
REM most frequent in which group of age person
Definition
Older 
Term
Snoring and overweight individual is at risk of what disorder?
Definition
Sleep Apnea
Term

REM is in which stage of sleep

1, 2, 3 or 4

Definition
1
Term
Sleep measured through what  method? What does it indicate?
Definition

Electroencephalograph

Brain activitiy

Term
Alzheimers
Definition

Lost choligernic cell in substantianiagra

Development of neutritic plaque in cerebral cortex

Neurofibrillary tangles in hippocampus and cerebral cortex

Cell death result in explicit memory lost in Enthorhinal cortex

 

Term
Prolonged expose to gluccorticoids can 
Definition
kill cells in hippocampus
Term
Frontal lobe has memory for
Definition

short term

act as an orchestra conductor - select course of action, ignore irrelevant stimuli

Organisation of events

Term
Hippocampus and amgydala plays a role in explicit memory. Explain the 3 parts in the medial temporal cortex that is a sequential arrangement of two-way connections.
Definition

Enthorhinal

 Parahippocampus

Perirhinal

Term
Implicit memory is 
Definition
memory without record
Term
Short term memory involve
Definition
frontal lobe 
Term
Extinction 
Definition
contralateral neglect
Term
V4 damage
Definition
Cant' see color
Term
Mirror neurons are
Definition
cells in premotor cortex firing when observe specific action taken by another
Term
BrdU or Bromode-oxyuridine technique shows neuron migrate to
Definition

olfactory bulb

hippocampus 

 possibly neocortex of frontal and temporal lobe

 

*creating novel circuit

Term
Split corpus callosum treat what disease?
Definition
Epilepsy
Term
Split brains functions with spoon experiment
Definition
Left hand pick up spoon seen on right brain
Term
Women are better at verbal or spatial
Definition
Verbal
Term
Cell assemble is 
Definition

receive same sensory inputs

basis of perception, memory and though

Term
how many percent are left handers 
Definition
30%
Term
Ratio- spatial -linguistic skills has an effect on age at which stage?
Definition
Puberty
Term
Person can localise objects and describe their locations from memory but can't identify objects has lesion in 
Definition
temporal lobe
Term

Howard gardner's intelligence: name them

milbils

Definition

music

intrapersonal

linguistic

body-kinestheticWis

interpersonal

logic-mathematical

spatial

Term
Wisconsin card sorting task - what is it for?
Definition

Measure planning and abstract reasoning

frontal lobe in charge

Term
Frontal lobe injury inteferes with which intelligence?
Definition
divergent
Term
Association cortex occupies how much of our brain
Definition
a third
Term
Fear conditioning involve which part of brain
Definition
amygdala
Term
Amnesia is 
Definition
loss ability to explicit memory like H.M
Term
Throwing rock or spear
Definition
Term
Kolb and steward on gonadal hormones
Definition

ovary of middle aged female rats removed undergone structural changes - cell growth of 30% more dendrites and spine density increased 

Concludion: gonadal hormones affect neuronal structure of the brain at any point in animal life

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