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GRE Psychology: Physiological/behavioral Neuroscience 1
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1. Contain synaptic vessels that hold neurotransmitters
Peripheral nervous system (PNS)
Terminal buttons
Neuromodulators
Blood-brain barrier
2. 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
Gray matter
Alpha waves
Hypothalamus
Autonomic nervous system
3. PNS fibers that run towards CNS
PET
Inferior colliculus
Reticular formation
Afferent fibers
4. Connections between brain and spine
Gray matter
Corticospinal tract
Alpha waves
reuptake
5. PNS - interacts with external environment by controlling voluntary movements of striated muscles
Somatic nervous system
Sympathetic nervous system
Theta waves
Occipital lobe
6. Used to implant electrodes into animals' brains in experiments
White matter
Antagonists
Stereotaxic instruments
Myelin sheath
7. Changes in a nerve cell'S charge as the result of stimulation - 2 forms: excitatory postsynaptic potential and inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Limbic system
postsynaptic potentials
Autonomic nervous system
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
8. Outer covering of spine - nerve fibers - axon bundles - myelin sheathing
estrogen
Delta waves
Thyroid stimulating hormone
White matter
9. Inner core of spine - cell bodies and dendrites
Excitatory postsynaptic potential
Agraphia
Absolute refractory period
Gray matter
10. Of telencephalon - structures around the brainstem involved in 4Fs (fleeing - feeding - fighting - and fornicating)
Vasopressin
Pituitary gland
Limbic system
Blood-brain barrier
11. Increase in males during puberty causes genitals to matures and secondary sex characteristics to develop - example: testosterone
Axon hillock
androgens (example)
Efferent fibers
Alpha waves
12. Gray matter - white matter
Spine (subsystem)
Postsynaptic cell
Neurotransmitters
Broca'S aphasia
13. Extension of the spine - developed from base to the front
Brain evolution
Agnosia
reuptake
Neurotransmitters
14. ANS - recuperation after arousal (decrease HR - BP - respiration)
Spine (subsystem)
Absolute refractory period
Parasympathetic nervous system
estrogen
15. Of pituitary - regulate water levels in body and therefore BP
Sham rage
Dendrites
Vasopressin
Axon
16. Tough connective tissues that cover/protect brain and spinal cord
Synapse gap
Meninges
Terminal buttons
Tegmentum
17. 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
Activational hormones
Rapid Eye Movement sleep
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
18. Comprise two classes of neurotransmitters - indolamines and catecholamines
Tegmentum
Tectum
Monoamines
Delta waves
19. Holds neurotransmitters
Agonists
Synaptic vessels
Monoamines
Superior colliculus
20. Overeating with no satiation of hunger; leads to obesity; damage to ventromedial region of hypothalamus
Neurotransmitters
Terminal buttons
Hyperphagia
Superior colliculus
21. Of Hindbrain - aka medulla; Mainly controls for reflexes - but also controls sleep - attention - movement
Sleep hours for infants and elderly respectively
fMRI
Myelencephalon
Wernicke'S aphasia
22. Dysfunction in certain cortical association area - inability to read
Alexia
Indolamines
Terminal buttons
Gray matter
23. Provide myelin in central nervous system
Oligodendrocytes
Sulci
Sleep cycles
Reticular formation
24. Process in which neural pathways are connected and then some die out (children go through these process)
Stereotaxic instruments
Gyri
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
Blooming and pruning
25. Positron emission tomography - scans glucose metabolism to measure activity in various brain regions
Brain evolution
PET
All-or-none law
Cingulate gyrus
26. 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)
Thyroid stimulating hormone
Monoamines
Catecholamines
27. Like neurotransmitters but cause long-term changes in postsynaptic cell
Cingulate gyrus
Neuromodulators
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Cortical association areas
28. A type of cell that help support neurons; oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells
Soma
Stereotaxic instruments
Glial cells
Rebound effect
29. Of diencephalon - controls autonomic nervous system biological motivations (hunger - thirst) and pituitary gland
Activational hormones
Hypothalamus
Antagonists
postsynaptic potentials
30. Organizational and activational
Axon
Beta waves
Electroencephalogram
Hormones (type)
31. Of cerebral cortex - responsible for vision
Occipital lobe
Delta waves
fMRI
Hippocampus
32. Of mesencephalon - rest of reticular formation; Also involved in the sensorimotor system - analgesic effect of opiates
Metencephalon
postsynaptic potentials
Tegmentum
Monoamines
33. Stage 0 & 1 non-REM sleep - low-amplitude and fast-frequency waves
Hormones (type)
Metencephalon
Agraphia
Alpha waves
34. Fast frequency bursts of brain activity - inhibits processing to keep tranquil state
Sleep spindles
Agonists
Occipital lobe
Beta waves
35. Provide myelin in peripheral nervous system
White matter
postsynaptic potentials
Schwann cells
Glial cells
36. Measures oxygen flow in different brain areas - used most in cognitive psych to measure activity in different brain regions during certain tasks
Sleep spindles
Terminal buttons
fMRI
Temporal lobe
37. Aka cell body. largest central portion - and make up gray matter - has a nucleus that directs neuron'S activity
Soma
Neuromodulators
Amygdala
androgens (example)
38. Neuron branches - receive impulses - branching patterns change throughout life
Dendrites
Afferent fibers
Agnosia
Apraxia
39. Time after absolute refractory period - neuron can fire but needs a much stronger stimulus
Frontal lobe
Relative refractory period
Non-REM sleep (4 stages of sleep)
Hyperphagia
40. Presence during development causes a fetus to develop into a male (absence cause the fetus to develop into a female)
H-Y antigen
Pituitary gland
Forebrain (division)
Myelencephalon
41. Consists of myelencephalon - metencephalon - and reticular formation
reuptake
Hindbrain
Metencephalon
Beta waves
42. PNS fibers that run away from CNS (to cause effect the brain wants)
Stereotaxic instruments
Efferent fibers
Cortical association areas
Wernicke'S aphasia
43. Measures brain wave patterns and have made it possible to study waking and sleeping states
oxytocin
Electroencephalogram
Corticospinal tract
Amino acids
44. Incredible rage easily provoked when cerebral cortex is removed
Cerebral cortex (subsystem)
Sham rage
Alexia
Organizational hormones
45. Decrease effects of a neurotransmitter (e.g. botox is an acetylecholine antagonist that decreases muscle activity)
Sympathetic nervous system
Dendrites
Antagonists
fMRI
46. Low-amplitude and fast -frequency alpha waves
Neural synchrony
Meninges
Inferior colliculus
Temporal lobe
47. Hyperpolarization - + let out - - compared to outside - decrease firing
Synapse gap
Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
Tectum
Cell membrane
48. 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
Neuron
Gray matter
Superior colliculus
Beta waves
49. Of diencephalon - channels sensory information to cerebral cortex
Thalamus
Presynaptic cell
Tectum
Axon hillock
50. Made up of somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system
PET
Peripheral nervous system (subsystems)
Broca'S aphasia
Hypothalamus