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GRE Psychology: Physiological/behavioral Neuroscience 1
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1. Low-amplitude and fast -frequency alpha waves
Postsynaptic cell
Occipital lobe
Neural synchrony
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
2. Depolarization - + from outside allowed into cell - increase firing
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Oligodendrocytes
Postsynaptic cell
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
3. Made up of somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
Telencephalon
Terminal buttons
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
4. In females - regulate the development of ovum and trigger ovulation - In males - regulate the development of sperm cells and the production of testosterone
Autonomic nervous system
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Organizational hormones
Tegmentum
5. Present in fast-acting - directed synapses
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Amino acids
Acetylcholine
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
6. comprises 50% of total sleep at birth - decreases to 25% - 20% sleep time spent in this type of sleep - Interspersed with non-REM every 30-40min - where dreams are experience - characterized by neural desynchrony - also known as paradoxical sleep -->
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
H-Y antigen
Indolamines
resting potential
7. Of telencephalon - involves in memory- transfer STM into LTM - - new neurons can form in adult mammalian brain
Hippocampus
resting potential
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Cingulate gyrus
8. Decrease effects of a neurotransmitter (e.g. botox is an acetylecholine antagonist that decreases muscle activity)
Corticospinal tract
Forebrain (division)
Antagonists
Metencephalon
9. Positron emission tomography - scans glucose metabolism to measure activity in various brain regions
Metencephalon
androgens (example)
resting potential
PET
10. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to organize movement
Hippocampus
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
Synaptic vessels
Apraxia
11. 16 hours of sleep a day - 6 hours
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Catecholamines
Parasympathetic nervous system
Presynaptic cell
12. Pathway that runs to and from CNS
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Ventricles
Somatic nervous system
13. Outer covering of spine - nerve fibers - axon bundles - myelin sheathing
reuptake
Electroencephalogram
Autonomic nervous system
White matter
14. Include dopamine - lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson'S - excess dopamine is linked with schizophrenia - dopamine is also involved in feelings of reward and therefore addiction
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Catecholamines
Axon hillock
Autonomic nervous system
15. PNS fibers that run towards CNS
Autonomic nervous system (subsystems)
Neurotransmitters
Afferent fibers
oxytocin
16. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for vision
Terminal buttons
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Neuromodulators
Occipital lobe
17. Holds neurotransmitters
Activational hormones
Neurotransmitters
Hippocampus
Synaptic vessels
18. Stage 0 & 1 non-REM sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves
White matter
reuptake
Alpha waves
Apraxia
19. Of diencephalon - controls autonomic nervous system biological motivations (hunger - thirst) and pituitary gland
Cell membrane
Hypothalamus
Forebrain (division)
Occipital lobe
20. Made up of brain and spinal cord
reuptake
Central Nervous System (CNS)
oxytocin
H-Y antigen
21. Stage 3 (less sleep spindles) & 4 non-REM sleep - high-amplitude and low-frequency - deepest level of sleep
Delta waves
PET
Neural synchrony
Inferior colliculus
22. Of pituitary - stress hormone - increases androgen and cortisol production
Parietal lobe
Temporal lobe
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Efferent fibers
23. Time after a neuron fires which it cannot respond to stimulation
Tegmentum
Terminal buttons
Beta waves
Absolute refractory period
24. Time after absolute refractory period - neuron can fire but needs a much stronger stimulus
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
Relative refractory period
Terminal buttons
Apraxia
25. Incredible rage easily provoked when cerebral cortex is removed
Hormones (type)
Sham rage
Pituitary gland
Agraphia
26. Anytime during adulthood - short periods - often transient or reversible (current/recent circulation); - menstrual cycle (estradiol - progesterone - luteinizing hormone (LH) - follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)); - LH and FSH in females regulate ovum
Stereotaxic instruments
Activational hormones
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Beta waves
27. Of telencephalon - structures around the brainstem involved in 4Fs (fleeing - feeding - fighting - and fornicating)
menarche
Blood-brain barrier
Glial cells
Limbic system
28. Beginning of neuron (dendrites)
Indolamines
Postsynaptic cell
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Sleep spindles
29. 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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30. An amino acid - most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter
Forebrain (division)
Steps in neural transmission
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
Alexia
31. ANS - recuperation after arousal (decrease HR - BP - respiration)
Indolamines
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Parasympathetic nervous system
Hyperphagia
32. REM-sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves that characterize waking states
Limbic system
Synaptic vessels
Wernicke'S aphasia
Beta waves
33. Inactivated state of a neuron
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
Gyri
resting potential
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
34. PNS fibers that run away from CNS (to cause effect the brain wants)
Metencephalon
Neuromodulators
Rebound effect
Efferent fibers
35. Of cerebral cortex - controls speech (Broca'S area) - reasoning - problem solving
Frontal lobe
Autonomic nervous system (subsystems)
Steps in neural transmission
Telencephalon
36. Of hindbrain - has pons(connects brain parts to spine) and cerebellum(controls muscle coordination - balance - posture)
Metencephalon
Gyri
Forebrain (division)
Neuron
37. Increase in males during puberty causes genitals to matures and secondary sex characteristics to develop - example: testosterone
Efferent fibers
androgens (example)
Glutamate
Occipital lobe
38. PNS - interacts with external environment by controlling voluntary movements of striated muscles
reuptake
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
White matter
Somatic nervous system
39. Of diencephalon - channels sensory information to cerebral cortex
Glial cells
Thalamus
Postsynaptic cell
Female menstrual cycle (hormones)
40. A type of cell that help support neurons; oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells
Synaptic vessels
Tectum
Glial cells
Spine (subsystem)
41. Neuron branches - receive impulses - branching patterns change throughout life
Myelin sheath
menarche
Sleep cycles
Dendrites
42. Of Hindbrain - aka medulla; Mainly controls for reflexes - but also controls sleep - attention - movement
Oligodendrocytes
Beta waves
Broca'S aphasia
Myelencephalon
43. Measures brain wave patterns and have made it possible to study waking and sleeping states
Blooming and pruning
Electroencephalogram
Neuromodulators
All-or-none law
44. Extension of the spine - developed from base to the front
Tegmentum
Somatic nervous system
Brain evolution
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
45. Changes in a nerve cell'S charge as the result of stimulation - 2 forms: excitatory postsynaptic potential and inhibitory postsynaptic potential
postsynaptic potentials
Axon hillock
Synaptic vessels
Delta waves
46. Released at neuromuscular junction to cause contraction of skeletal muscles - also involved in parasympathetic nervous system
Acetylcholine
estrogen
Schwann cells
Alexia
47. Of pituitary - activates thyroid
reuptake
Antagonists
Thyroid stimulating hormone
Neural synchrony
48. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - difficulty processing sensory information
Spine (subsystem)
Afferent fibers
Agnosia
White Matter
49. Areas on cortex that correspond to certain functions; - the larger the area - the more sensitive and highly accessed the function - Damage to a particular area would result in certain dysfunction
Corticospinal tract
reuptake
Hippocampus
Cortical association areas
50. The process after a neurotransmitter has done its job - it is reabsorbed by the presynaptic cell
Synapse gap
Relative refractory period
Apraxia
reuptake