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GRE Psychology: Physiological/behavioral Neuroscience 1
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1. Inner core of spine - cell bodies and dendrites
All-or-none law
Amino acids
Gray matter
Cortical association areas
2. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to organize movement
Terminal buttons
Sympathetic nervous system
Apraxia
Blooming and pruning
3. Neuron branches - receive impulses - branching patterns change throughout life
Sleep cycles
Dendrites
Synapse gap
Mesencephalon
4. Depolarization - + from outside allowed into cell - increase firing
Sleep spindles
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Neurotransmitters
Cingulate gyrus
5. 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
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
Catecholamines
androgens (example)
Activational hormones
6. Decrease effects of a neurotransmitter (e.g. botox is an acetylecholine antagonist that decreases muscle activity)
White matter
Sham rage
postsynaptic potentials
Antagonists
7. Tough connective tissues that cover/protect brain and spinal cord
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Meninges
White Matter
Activational hormones
8. Bumps on the brainstem - controls visual reflexes
oxytocin
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Superior colliculus
9. Stage 0 & 1 non-REM sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves
White matter
Alpha waves
Organizational hormones
Antagonists
10. 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
Glutamate
Relative refractory period
Hypothalamus
11. Gray matter - white matter
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Postsynaptic cell
Spine (subsystem)
Glutamate
12. Of telencephalon - links brain areas dealing with emotion and decisions
Cingulate gyrus
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
Amygdala
reuptake
13. Inactivated state of a neuron
Efferent fibers
Neural synchrony
resting potential
Organizational hormones
14. A type of cell that help support neurons; oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells
PET
Glial cells
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Oligodendrocytes
15. Consists of myelencephalon - metencephalon - and reticular formation
Activational hormones
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Synaptic vessels
Hindbrain
16. Increase in males during puberty causes genitals to matures and secondary sex characteristics to develop - example: testosterone
Presynaptic cell
Myelencephalon
White matter
androgens (example)
17. Of pituitary - stress hormone - increases androgen and cortisol production
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Spine (subsystem)
18. Where soma and axon connect
Schwann cells
Apraxia
Corticospinal tract
Axon hillock
19. Chemicals that stimulate nearby cells
Cell membrane
Neurotransmitters
Basal ganglia
Blooming and pruning
20. PNS fibers that run towards CNS
Afferent fibers
Glial cells
H-Y antigen
Pituitary gland
21. Time after absolute refractory period - neuron can fire but needs a much stronger stimulus
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Relative refractory period
Delta waves
resting potential
22. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to read
Metencephalon
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Alexia
Amygdala
23. Occur during specific periods in development - permanent or long-lasting effects; - presence of H-Y antigen in development causes fetus to develop into a male - absence to female; - androgens in males and estrogen in females causes secondary sex cha
Myelin sheath
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)
Organizational hormones
Autonomic nervous system
24. Occurs when people deprived of REM sleep - compensate by spending more time in REM sleep later in the night
Tegmentum
fMRI
Rebound effect
Axon
25. Made up of sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system
Catecholamines
fMRI
Soma
Autonomic nervous system (subsystems)
26. 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
White Matter
Autonomic nervous system
Synaptic vessels
Absolute refractory period
27. Covers whole neuron - selective permeability - sometimes lets ions (positive charge) through
Blooming and pruning
Absolute refractory period
Cell membrane
Agraphia
28. Of hindbrain - has pons(connects brain parts to spine) and cerebellum(controls muscle coordination - balance - posture)
Monoamines
Soma
Gray matter
Metencephalon
29. Process in which neural pathways are connected and then some die out (children go through these process)
Blooming and pruning
Thalamus
Gray matter
reuptake
30. 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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31. Changes in a nerve cell'S charge as the result of stimulation - 2 forms: excitatory postsynaptic potential and inhibitory postsynaptic potential
postsynaptic potentials
Mesencephalon
Sleep spindles
White Matter
32. Released from the pituitary and facilitates birth and breast feeding - also involved in pair bonding (mother to child or romantic partners) -
oxytocin
Hypothalamus
Occipital lobe
Dendrites
33. Of pituitary - regulate water levels in body and therefore BP
Metencephalon
Vasopressin
Broca'S aphasia
Agonists
34. End of a neuron (terminal buttons)
fMRI
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
Gyri
Presynaptic cell
35. Overeating with no satiation of hunger; leads to obesity; damage to ventromedial region of hypothalamus
Neuron
Sulci
Alexia
Hyperphagia
36. Bumps on the brainstem - controls auditory reflexes
Female menstrual cycle (hormones)
Amino acids
Antagonists
Inferior colliculus
37. Hyperpolarization - + let out - - compared to outside - decrease firing
Apraxia
Sulci
Luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
38. Measures brain wave patterns and have made it possible to study waking and sleeping states
Amino acids
reuptake
Electroencephalogram
Meninges
39. 16 hours of sleep a day - 6 hours
Somatic nervous system
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
Vasopressin
Sham rage
40. Control large voluntary muscle movements - Their degeneration is related to motor dysfunction in Parkinson'S and Huntington'S
Hindbrain
Basal ganglia
PET
Indolamines
41. Of diencephalon - controls autonomic nervous system biological motivations (hunger - thirst) and pituitary gland
All-or-none law
Cingulate gyrus
resting potential
Hypothalamus
42. Presence during development causes a fetus to develop into a male (absence cause the fetus to develop into a female)
Antagonists
Activational hormones
H-Y antigen
Afferent fibers
43. Associated with changes in hormone levels throughout the month - estradiol - progesterone - luteinizing hormone - follicle stimulating hormone
Efferent fibers
Female menstrual cycle (hormones)
All-or-none law
Mesencephalon
44. Transmits impulses of neuron - bundles of these are nerve fibers (white matter); the wider nerve fiber - the faster its conduction
Dendrites
Antagonists
Axon
Monoamines
45. Bundles of axon - Nerve fiber
Stereotaxic instruments
White Matter
Gray matter
Sulci
46. The process after a neurotransmitter has done its job - it is reabsorbed by the presynaptic cell
Beta waves
Female menstrual cycle (hormones)
reuptake
estrogen
47. Linked to pleasure and analgesia; can be endogenous (opioid peptides) or exogenous (morphine or heroin) - Exogenous endorphine are highly addictive
Endorphins
Nodes of Ranvier
Autonomic nervous system
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
48. Stage 3 (less sleep spindles) & 4 non-REM sleep - high-amplitude and low-frequency - deepest level of sleep
Delta waves
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
Sleep cycles
Presynaptic cell
49. Controlled by hypothalamus - regulation of hormones in the body - The 'master gland' of the endocrine/hormone system
Activational hormones
Myelin sheath
Pituitary gland
Indolamines
50. (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
Parasympathetic nervous system
Afferent fibers
Steps in neural transmission
Superior colliculus