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GRE Psychology: Physiological/behavioral Neuroscience 1
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1. 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
Sleep cycles
Gray matter
Presynaptic cell
Sulci
2. Stage 3 (less sleep spindles) & 4 non-REM sleep - high-amplitude and low-frequency - deepest level of sleep
Agonists
Agraphia
Presynaptic cell
Delta waves
3. Made of thalamus and hypothalamus
Amino acids
Efferent fibers
Presynaptic cell
Diencephalon
4. 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
Mesencephalon
Cell membrane
Glutamate
Autonomic nervous system
5. Comprise two classes of neurotransmitters - indolamines and catecholamines
Monoamines
Absolute refractory period
Forebrain (division)
Postsynaptic cell
6. Midbrain; contains tectum and tegmentum
Thyroid stimulating hormone
Cortical association areas
Mesencephalon
Sham rage
7. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to organize movement
Blooming and pruning
Amino acids
Acetylcholine
Apraxia
8. Of Hindbrain - aka medulla; Mainly controls for reflexes - but also controls sleep - attention - movement
Myelencephalon
Vasopressin
Terminal buttons
Monoamines
9. PNS - interacts with external environment by controlling voluntary movements of striated muscles
Sleep spindles
Presynaptic cell
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Somatic nervous system
10. REM-sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves that characterize waking states
H-Y antigen
Beta waves
Glutamate
White matter
11. A type of cell that help support neurons; oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells
Parasympathetic nervous system
Glial cells
Occipital lobe
Cell membrane
12. Time after absolute refractory period - neuron can fire but needs a much stronger stimulus
Relative refractory period
Autonomic nervous system (subsystems)
Acetylcholine
Wernicke'S aphasia
13. Made up of somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
Spine (subsystem)
Occipital lobe
Myelin sheath
14. Of mesencephalon - vision and hearing
Thyroid stimulating hormone
Tectum
androgens (example)
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
15. Made up of brain and spinal cord
Efferent fibers
Tegmentum
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Spine (subsystem)
16. Or just synapse - the space between 2 neurons where they communication
White Matter
Wernicke'S aphasia
Activational hormones
Synapse gap
17. Connections between brain and spine
Corticospinal tract
Sulci
Alexia
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
18. Covers whole neuron - selective permeability - sometimes lets ions (positive charge) through
Cell membrane
Afferent fibers
Myelencephalon
Somatic nervous system
19. Control large voluntary muscle movements - Their degeneration is related to motor dysfunction in Parkinson'S and Huntington'S
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Basal ganglia
Autonomic nervous system (subsystems)
Acetylcholine
20. PNS fibers that run away from CNS (to cause effect the brain wants)
Indolamines
Spine (subsystem)
Amino acids
Efferent fibers
21. Of hindbrain - has pons(connects brain parts to spine) and cerebellum(controls muscle coordination - balance - posture)
Sympathetic nervous system
oxytocin
Metencephalon
Amino acids
22. Like neurotransmitters but cause long-term changes in postsynaptic cell
Sleep spindles
Hyperphagia
androgens (example)
Neuromodulators
23. Low-amplitude and fast -frequency alpha waves
Steps in neural transmission
Limbic system
Theta waves
Neural synchrony
24. The process after a neurotransmitter has done its job - it is reabsorbed by the presynaptic cell
reuptake
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Temporal lobe
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
25. 16 hours of sleep a day - 6 hours
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Ventricles
Schwann cells
26. Of cerebral cortex - controls speech (Broca'S area) - reasoning - problem solving
Frontal lobe
Female menstrual cycle (hormones)
Saltatory conduction
oxytocin
27. Provide myelin in peripheral nervous system
Efferent fibers
Glutamate
PET
Schwann cells
28. Stage 0 & 1 non-REM sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves
Parietal lobe
Autonomic nervous system (subsystems)
Alpha waves
Glutamate
29. An amino acid - most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter.
Sham rage
Glutamate
White Matter
Alpha waves
30. Contain synaptic vessels that hold neurotransmitters
Synapse gap
Terminal buttons
Beta waves
Superior colliculus
31. Organizational and activational
Hormones (type)
Antagonists
Rebound effect
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
32. Inactivated state of a neuron
Occipital lobe
Monoamines
resting potential
Basal ganglia
33. End of a neuron (terminal buttons)
Tectum
Pituitary gland
Presynaptic cell
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
34. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for somatosensory system
Efferent fibers
Parietal lobe
Gray matter
Tectum
35. Of diencephalon - controls autonomic nervous system biological motivations (hunger - thirst) and pituitary gland
Neuron
Hypothalamus
Axon
Metencephalon
36. Bumps on the brainstem - controls auditory reflexes
Amino acids
Hindbrain
Forebrain (division)
Inferior colliculus
37. Depolarization - + from outside allowed into cell - increase firing
Efferent fibers
reuptake
White matter
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
38. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for hearing - also Wernicke'S area (related to speech)
Cingulate gyrus
Temporal lobe
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
39. Fatty - insulating sheath on some axons for faster conduction of axon impulses
Stereotaxic instruments
Relative refractory period
Electroencephalogram
Myelin sheath
40. Stage 1 & 2 non-REM sleep (with sleep spindles) - lower-amplitude and slower frequency waves
White matter
H-Y antigen
Beta waves
Theta waves
41. Of telencephalon - controls emotional reactions such as fear and anger
Endorphins
Ventricles
Amygdala
Agraphia
42. The basic unit of the nervous system - Consist of: Dentrites - cell body (soma) - axon hillock - axon - myelin sheath - nodes of Ranvier - Terminal buttons - cell membrane - synapse - glial cells
Myelin sheath
Wernicke'S aphasia
Neuron
Oligodendrocytes
43. Increase in female during puberty causes genitals to matures and secondary sex characteristics to develop
Cell membrane
estrogen
Soma
Myelin sheath
44. For female - the onset of the menstrual cycles - occurs during puberty
Saltatory conduction
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
Parietal lobe
menarche
45. ANS - recuperation after arousal (decrease HR - BP - respiration)
Parasympathetic nervous system
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Sleep cycles
46. An amino acid - most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter
Organizational hormones
Apraxia
Telencephalon
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
47. Consists of myelencephalon - metencephalon - and reticular formation
Hindbrain
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Tegmentum
48. Jumping from one node of Ranvier to the next due to insulation by myelin sheath
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Agonists
Saltatory conduction
Thalamus
49. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for vision
oxytocin
Gyri
Axon
Occipital lobe
50. Fast frequency bursts of brain activity - inhibits processing to keep tranquil state
Sleep spindles
Activational hormones
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Neuron