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| Phrenology | show 🗑
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| show | Founder of phrenology
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| show | Study of links betw. biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes.
Some are known as "behavioural neuroscientists", "neuropsychologists", "behaviors geneticists", "physiological psychologists" or "biopsychologists".
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| show | Basic building block of the nervous system; Specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses. Electrical signals travel from dendrites > to cell body > to axon
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| Dendrite | show 🗑
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| show | Extension of a neuron carrying messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands. Longest part of the cell body.
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| show | Fatty tissue layer segmentally encasing axons of neurons. Enables speed as neural impulses hop from one sausage-like node to the next
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| show | Degeneration of the myelin sheath causing multiple sclerosis
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| Action Potential | show 🗑
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| show | Movement of positively charge ions across the neuron membrane. Travels in one direction (toward axon terminal)
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| show | Minimal level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
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| show | Neuron's reaction of either firing (with a full strength response) or not firing. Characteristic of the initiation of neural impulses. Increased excitatory signals do not affect intensity
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| Selective Permeability | show 🗑
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| Refractory Period | show 🗑
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| Neurotransmitter | show 🗑
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| show | Absorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron
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| show | Junction between the axon tip of a sending neuron and the dendrite/cell body of the receiving neuron. Gap is known as synaptic gap/cleft
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| show | Muscle movement, attention, arousal, memory, emotion
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| Dopamine | show 🗑
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| Seratonin | show 🗑
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| show | Pain relief, pleasure
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| Norepinephrine (hormone functioning as a neurotransmitter) | show 🗑
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| GABA | show 🗑
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| Glutamate | show 🗑
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| Agonists | show 🗑
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| Antagonists | show 🗑
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| show | Electrochemical information system + communication network. Consists of nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous systems.
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| show | Bundled axons forming neural "cables" connection nervous system + muscles, glands, and sense organs.
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| Central Nervous System (CNS) | show 🗑
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| show | Sensory and motor neurons that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body
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| Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) | show 🗑
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| show | Part of the PNS; controlling the body's skeletal muscles (skeletal nervous system)
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| Sympathetic Nervous System | show 🗑
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| show | part of the ANS; calming the body, conserving energy.
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| Sensory Neuron (Afferent) | show 🗑
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| show | part of SoNS; neurons carry outgoing information from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and glands
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| show | Neuron transmitting impulses betw. other neurons esp. as part of a reflex arc. Located exclusively withing brain and spinal cord
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| show | Simple, automatic, inborn response to sensory stimulus (e.g. knee-jerk response) Enable us to respond to stimuli before it does harm
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| Neural Networks | show 🗑
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| show | Body's "slow" chemical communication system; a set of glands secreting hormones into the bloodstream
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| Hormones | show 🗑
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| show | Endocrine system "master" gland. Influenced by the hypothalamus. Regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands
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| show | Tissue destruction; naturally or experimentally caused.
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| Electroencephalogram (EEG) | show 🗑
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| show | Series of x-ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by a computer to represent a slice of the brain's structure
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| MRI | show 🗑
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| PET | show 🗑
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| show | Used to study brain anatomy. Measures glucose levels.
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| show | Revealing blood flow and brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans. Studies brain structure and function. Measures oxygen levels in the brain.
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| Brainstem | show 🗑
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| show | Base of the brainstem controlling heartbeat and breathing
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| show | Above medulla; Helps coordinate movements
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| show | Nerve network travelling through the brainstem and thalamus. Plays a role in controlling arousal.
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| Thalamus | show 🗑
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| Cerebellum | show 🗑
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| show | Below the cerebral hemispheres; Invol. several areas near the edge of the cortex. Concerned w/ instinct and mood. Controls basic emotions (fear, pleasure, anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance, care of offspring)
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| show | Processes memory of new information and recent events
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| Amygdala | show 🗑
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| show | Neural structure below the thalamus. Directs maintenance activities (eating, drinking, body temp). Governs endocrine system via pituitary gland + linked to emotion and reward.
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| Cerebrum | show 🗑
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| Cerebral Cortex | show 🗑
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| Gilal Cells | show 🗑
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| Front Lobes | show 🗑
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| Parietal Lobes | show 🗑
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| Temporal Lobes | show 🗑
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| Occipital Lobes | show 🗑
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| show | Areas not involved in primary motor or sensory functions. Involved in higher mental functions (learning, remembering, thinking and speaking)
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| show | Area at the rear of the frontal lobes controlling voluntary movement.
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| Somatosensory Cortex | show 🗑
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| show | Pictorial representation of primary motor cortex and primary somatosensory cortex divisions
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| show | Man with an injured frontal lobe.
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| Broca's Area | show 🗑
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| show | Brain area involved in reading aloud
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| Wernicke's Area | show 🗑
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| show | Language impairment caused by damage to the left hemisphere in Broca's area (speech) or Wernicke's area (understanding).
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| Plasticity | show 🗑
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| show | Process by which neurons are generated. Neurons are formed in the brain, and are stimulated by neurogenesis.
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| Lateralization | show 🗑
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| show | Band of neural fibers connection brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them
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| show | Responsible for logic, analysis, sequencing, linear, mathematics, language, facts, thinking in works, words of songs, and computation.
(MATH, LOGIC, SCIENCE, LANGUAGE)
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| show | Responsible for creativity, imagination, holistic thinking, intuition, arts (motor skill), rhythm (beats), non-verbal, feelings, visualization, song tune, daydreaming.
(ART, NON-VERBAL, EMOTIONS)
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| show | Condition resulting from a cut corpus callosum. Used to reduce epileptic seizures
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| Consciousness | show 🗑
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| Dual Processing | show 🗑
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| Adrenal Glands | show 🗑
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