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GRE Psychology: Physiological/behavioral Neuroscience 1
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1. Divided into diencephalon and telencephalon
Sham rage
Forebrain (division)
Superior colliculus
Alpha waves
2. Time after a neuron fires which it cannot respond to stimulation
Absolute refractory period
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
Activational hormones
reuptake
3. Fast frequency bursts of brain activity - inhibits processing to keep tranquil state
Sleep spindles
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Synaptic vessels
Inferior colliculus
4. An amino acid - most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter.
Stereotaxic instruments
White Matter
Glutamate
Occipital lobe
5. Include serotonin - lack of serotonin is linked with depression
Occipital lobe
Neuromodulators
Indolamines
Neural synchrony
6. Organizational and activational
Blooming and pruning
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
Hormones (type)
Saltatory conduction
7. Process in which neural pathways are connected and then some die out (children go through these process)
Sham rage
Acetylcholine
Blooming and pruning
Schwann cells
8. Depolarization - + from outside allowed into cell - increase firing
Tectum
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Alexia
Agnosia
9. Of pituitary - stress hormone - increases androgen and cortisol production
androgens (example)
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Superior colliculus
Organizational hormones
10. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to organize movement
Apraxia
Basal ganglia
Alexia
Sleep spindles
11. Released at neuromuscular junction to cause contraction of skeletal muscles - also involved in parasympathetic nervous system
Acetylcholine
Myelencephalon
Forebrain (division)
Axon
12. Of diencephalon - controls autonomic nervous system biological motivations (hunger - thirst) and pituitary gland
Hypothalamus
Antagonists
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Sulci
13. Bundles of axon - Nerve fiber
Neural synchrony
Efferent fibers
Hindbrain
White Matter
14. Chemicals that stimulate nearby cells
Neurotransmitters
oxytocin
Indolamines
Terminal buttons
15. Of cerebral cortex - controls speech (Broca'S area) - reasoning - problem solving
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
Parasympathetic nervous system
Frontal lobe
Endorphins
16. Chambers filled with cerebrospinal fluid that insulate brain from shock
Sleep spindles
Ventricles
Spine (subsystem)
Afferent fibers
17. Comprise two classes of neurotransmitters - indolamines and catecholamines
Wernicke'S aphasia
Sham rage
Endorphins
Monoamines
18. Overeating with no satiation of hunger; leads to obesity; damage to ventromedial region of hypothalamus
Hyperphagia
Endorphins
Hormones (type)
Agraphia
19. Once minimum threshold is met - intensity always the same regardless of amount of stimulation
Superior colliculus
Endorphins
All-or-none law
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
20. Increase in males during puberty causes genitals to matures and secondary sex characteristics to develop - example: testosterone
Tegmentum
Nodes of Ranvier
androgens (example)
Meninges
21. PNS - interacts with internal environment - - Responsible for the 'fight or flight' response - - It controls the involuntary functions including movement of smooth muscles - digestion - blood circulation - breathing
Autonomic nervous system
Theta waves
White matter
Somatic nervous system
22. Consists of limbic system - hippocampus - amygdala - cingulate gyrus
Glutamate
White Matter
Neurotransmitters
Telencephalon
23. Fissures seen on cortex surface
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Glial cells
Sulci
Meninges
24. Like neurotransmitters but cause long-term changes in postsynaptic cell
Tegmentum
Blooming and pruning
Terminal buttons
Neuromodulators
25. Of mesencephalon - vision and hearing
Tectum
Indolamines
Alpha waves
Hippocampus
26. Positron emission tomography - scans glucose metabolism to measure activity in various brain regions
PET
Cingulate gyrus
Monoamines
Oligodendrocytes
27. Occurs when people deprived of REM sleep - compensate by spending more time in REM sleep later in the night
Wernicke'S aphasia
Synapse gap
Rebound effect
Gray matter
28. Covers whole neuron - selective permeability - sometimes lets ions (positive charge) through
Cell membrane
Dendrites
Soma
Schwann cells
29. Of telencephalon - links brain areas dealing with emotion and decisions
Acetylcholine
Hormones (type)
Terminal buttons
Cingulate gyrus
30. Made up of somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
Afferent fibers
Stereotaxic instruments
Synapse gap
31. Provide myelin in central nervous system
Oligodendrocytes
Axon
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Meninges
32. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to write
Theta waves
Antagonists
Corticospinal tract
Agraphia
33. Stage 0 & 1 non-REM sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves
Synaptic vessels
Steps in neural transmission
Metencephalon
Alpha waves
34. Hyperpolarization - + let out - - compared to outside - decrease firing
Neuromodulators
Gray matter
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
androgens (example)
35. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - language disorder from damage to Wernicke'S area - in left temporal lobe; can speak but doesn'T understand how to correctly choose words (fluent but nonsensical)
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36. Made of thalamus and hypothalamus
Agonists
Diencephalon
Catecholamines
Sham rage
37. In females - regulate the development of ovum and trigger ovulation - In males - regulate the development of sperm cells and the production of testosterone
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Synaptic vessels
Oligodendrocytes
38. REM-sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves that characterize waking states
estrogen
Cingulate gyrus
Autonomic nervous system
Beta waves
39. Takes about half an hour; (0) prelude to sleep - neural synchrony; alpha waves; person is relaxed and drowsy - closes eye; (1) Eyes begin to roll. alpha waves give way to irregular theta waves; loses responsiveness to stimuli - experiences fleeting t
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Temporal lobe
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
40. Of pituitary - activates thyroid
Agraphia
Thyroid stimulating hormone
Hippocampus
Broca'S aphasia
41. 4-6 complete ones - each about 90 minutes - early in the night most time in stage 3 and 4 - 2 and REM sleep predominate later
Catecholamines
Sleep cycles
Wernicke'S aphasia
Parasympathetic nervous system
42. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for vision
Gray matter
Occipital lobe
Wernicke'S aphasia
Reticular formation
43. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for somatosensory system
Hippocampus
Parietal lobe
Central Nervous System (CNS)
All-or-none law
44. Changes in a nerve cell'S charge as the result of stimulation - 2 forms: excitatory postsynaptic potential and inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Hormones (type)
H-Y antigen
Efferent fibers
postsynaptic potentials
45. Control large voluntary muscle movements - Their degeneration is related to motor dysfunction in Parkinson'S and Huntington'S
H-Y antigen
Autonomic nervous system (subsystems)
Basal ganglia
Hyperphagia
46. Time after absolute refractory period - neuron can fire but needs a much stronger stimulus
Relative refractory period
Axon hillock
Agnosia
Apraxia
47. Associated with changes in hormone levels throughout the month - estradiol - progesterone - luteinizing hormone - follicle stimulating hormone
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Neuron
Agraphia
Female menstrual cycle (hormones)
48. Made up of brain and spinal cord
Vasopressin
Central Nervous System (CNS)
H-Y antigen
Saltatory conduction
49. Between myelin sheath - help send impulse down axon
Nodes of Ranvier
Dendrites
Hippocampus
Hindbrain
50. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - language disorder from damage to Broca'S area - in left frontal lobe; can understand speech but has difficulty speaking (slow - laborious - omits words)
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