Behavioural Neurosciences

A summary of all the lectures from Behavioural Neurosciences

This summary contains all the material for the MC exam of behavioral neuroscience. The exam is a lot about the lectures, so all the important information together with important pictures is put in this document. Together with a nice lay-out :)

Notes taken during the lectures of the course behavioral neuroscience; all lessons are in this.

This summary contains all the information from the lectures, I had a 7 last year.

Learning objectives - Reproduce the impact of the medial temporal lobe lesion in patient H.M. on various cognitive aspects (i.e. What forms of learning were affected and which were unaffected? - Reproduce how the delayed-nonmatching to sample task works and what brain regions it requires. - Reproduce the difference between declarative and nondeclarative memories (e.g. explicit and implicit memories) - Reproduce what priming is used for in terms of assessing memory aspects - Reproduce what t...

Learning objectives - What is known about sex and the brain? - Neural machinery that makes reproduction possible - How different are the brains of the two sexes - Is by genetics, brain or behaviour - Anatomy & physiology of the nervous system - Activations and organisational effects of steroid hormone

Summary of lecture 5&6 Hut

Learning objectives - Difference between strength and direction of lateralisation - Differences between individual and population biases - Pro’s and cons of lateralisation - Define lateralisation - Negative frequency dependent selection of lateralisation - Chimera’s

Learning objectives - Reproduce the importance of the X, Y chromosome and SRY gene in sex differences - Describe how estradial and testosterone are made - Reproduce the anatomical differences between the male and female brain at the level of the hypothalamus o Differences at the level of nuclei size o Differences at the level of receptor or neurotransmitter expression - Describe how testosterone/ estradiol plays an essential role in sex differences during early development and later stage...

Learning objectives - Reproduce the role of hippocampus in specific learning tasks - Reproduce the differences between Pavlovian Conditioning and Operant Conditioning - Reproduce the role of the hippocampus and amygdala in tone-cued fear and contextual fear conditioning - Reproduce how the role of protein synthesis in the consolidation of contextual fear conditioning was studied - Reproduce the difference between the fear conditioning and active shock avoidance - Reproduce how the object...