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GRE Psychology: Physiological/behavioral Neuroscience 1
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1. 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 -->
Tegmentum
Rebound effect
fMRI
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
2. 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
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
Limbic system
Hormones (type)
Gyri
3. Controlled by hypothalamus - regulation of hormones in the body - The 'master gland' of the endocrine/hormone system
Synapse gap
Presynaptic cell
Pituitary gland
Sulci
4. Stage 0 & 1 non-REM sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves
Alpha waves
Hyperphagia
Schwann cells
Tectum
5. Overeating with no satiation of hunger; leads to obesity; damage to ventromedial region of hypothalamus
Frontal lobe
Blooming and pruning
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Hyperphagia
6. Tough connective tissues that cover/protect brain and spinal cord
reuptake
Sympathetic nervous system
Hypothalamus
Meninges
7. Where soma and axon connect
Endorphins
PET
Axon hillock
Temporal lobe
8. Bumps on the brainstem - controls auditory reflexes
Axon
Steps in neural transmission
Inferior colliculus
resting potential
9. Stage 1 & 2 non-REM sleep (with sleep spindles) - lower-amplitude and slower frequency waves
Theta waves
Gyri
Reticular formation
Catecholamines
10. A type of cell that help support neurons; oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells
Synaptic vessels
Alpha waves
Corticospinal tract
Glial cells
11. Provide myelin in central nervous system
Antagonists
Oligodendrocytes
Gyri
Neuron
12. Presence during development causes a fetus to develop into a male (absence cause the fetus to develop into a female)
Superior colliculus
H-Y antigen
Oligodendrocytes
Cingulate gyrus
13. Stage 3 (less sleep spindles) & 4 non-REM sleep - high-amplitude and low-frequency - deepest level of sleep
H-Y antigen
Mesencephalon
reuptake
Delta waves
14. Of pituitary - regulate water levels in body and therefore BP
fMRI
Presynaptic cell
All-or-none law
Vasopressin
15. ANS - controls arousal mechanisms (blood circulation - pupil dilation - threat and fear response) - Lie detector test relies on the premise -->lying activates the sympathetic nervous system and cause things like (increase heart rate - blood pressure
Agnosia
Relative refractory period
Basal ganglia
Sympathetic nervous system
16. Of diencephalon - controls autonomic nervous system biological motivations (hunger - thirst) and pituitary gland
Occipital lobe
Hypothalamus
Somatic nervous system
Sulci
17. Time after a neuron fires which it cannot respond to stimulation
Postsynaptic cell
Afferent fibers
Absolute refractory period
Temporal lobe
18. Used to implant electrodes into animals' brains in experiments
Basal ganglia
Stereotaxic instruments
Sympathetic nervous system
Dendrites
19. Neuron branches - receive impulses - branching patterns change throughout life
Sleep spindles
Dendrites
Meninges
Inferior colliculus
20. Provide myelin in peripheral nervous system
Tegmentum
Presynaptic cell
H-Y antigen
Schwann cells
21. 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
H-Y antigen
Alexia
Cortical association areas
Sulci
22. PNS fibers that run away from CNS (to cause effect the brain wants)
Spine (subsystem)
Hypothalamus
Superior colliculus
Efferent fibers
23. Outer half-inch of cerebral hemispheres; - sensory and intellectual functions; - split into frontal - occipital - parietal - temporal lobes; - 90% is neocortex (new in evolution - 6 layers cortex) - 10% < 6 layers and more primitive
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
All-or-none law
estrogen
Female menstrual cycle (hormones)
24. 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
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Axon hillock
Blooming and pruning
Autonomic nervous system
25. Of telencephalon - controls emotional reactions such as fear and anger
Amygdala
Postsynaptic cell
oxytocin
Brain evolution
26. Measures brain wave patterns and have made it possible to study waking and sleeping states
Spine (subsystem)
Stereotaxic instruments
Electroencephalogram
Synaptic vessels
27. Of hindbrain - has pons(connects brain parts to spine) and cerebellum(controls muscle coordination - balance - posture)
Hippocampus
Apraxia
Metencephalon
Basal ganglia
28. Midbrain; contains tectum and tegmentum
Mesencephalon
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Efferent fibers
Myelin sheath
29. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to organize movement
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
androgens (example)
Temporal lobe
Apraxia
30. Made of thalamus and hypothalamus
Spine (subsystem)
Diencephalon
Neuron
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
31. Connections between brain and spine
Corticospinal tract
Sulci
Synapse gap
Nodes of Ranvier
32. Fatty - insulating sheath on some axons for faster conduction of axon impulses
Pituitary gland
Agonists
Theta waves
Myelin sheath
33. Of telencephalon - involves in memory- transfer STM into LTM - - new neurons can form in adult mammalian brain
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Myelencephalon
Hippocampus
34. Increase in female during puberty causes genitals to matures and secondary sex characteristics to develop
Oligodendrocytes
Somatic nervous system
estrogen
Steps in neural transmission
35. 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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36. Consists of limbic system - hippocampus - amygdala - cingulate gyrus
Meninges
oxytocin
Telencephalon
Tegmentum
37. REM-sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves that characterize waking states
oxytocin
Beta waves
Glial cells
Hippocampus
38. Bundles of axon - Nerve fiber
Afferent fibers
Indolamines
Oligodendrocytes
White Matter
39. Beginning of neuron (dendrites)
Schwann cells
oxytocin
Postsynaptic cell
Axon hillock
40. Of diencephalon - channels sensory information to cerebral cortex
Dendrites
Somatic nervous system
Afferent fibers
Thalamus
41. 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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42. (1) resting potential - neuron negatively charged - cell membrane does not let ions in; (2) presynaptic cell releases neurotransmitters from terminal buttons; (3) postsynaptic receptors in postsynaptic cells detects neurotransmitter and open ion chan
Steps in neural transmission
Terminal buttons
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Corticospinal tract
43. Occurs when people deprived of REM sleep - compensate by spending more time in REM sleep later in the night
Terminal buttons
Rebound effect
Monoamines
Frontal lobe
44. Control large voluntary muscle movements - Their degeneration is related to motor dysfunction in Parkinson'S and Huntington'S
postsynaptic potentials
Meninges
Basal ganglia
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
45. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to write
Agraphia
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Spine (subsystem)
Amygdala
46. Changes in a nerve cell'S charge as the result of stimulation - 2 forms: excitatory postsynaptic potential and inhibitory postsynaptic potential
reuptake
Frontal lobe
Somatic nervous system
postsynaptic potentials
47. Of Hindbrain - aka medulla; Mainly controls for reflexes - but also controls sleep - attention - movement
Sympathetic nervous system
Sleep spindles
Myelencephalon
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
48. Of mesencephalon - rest of reticular formation; Also involved in the sensorimotor system - analgesic effect of opiates
Sleep spindles
Sulci
Sham rage
Tegmentum
49. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for somatosensory system
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Hypothalamus
Parietal lobe
Occipital lobe
50. Of telencephalon - structures around the brainstem involved in 4Fs (fleeing - feeding - fighting - and fornicating)
Basal ganglia
Relative refractory period
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Limbic system