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Biopsychology - Exam 1 Review (vocabulary and definitions)

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This document summarizes the first 3 weeks of a 10 week biopsychology class. It examines the following topics: intro to brain and behavior, biopsychology history, cell and structures of the nervous systems, brain imaging methods, and neurophysiology. Covers chapters 1 -3 of The Mind's Machine. Includes mostly vocabulary and definitions.

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EXAM #1 REVEIW :
CHAPTER 1 Intro to :
brain and behavior Jean-Pierre Florens -

father of experimental brain ADDITIONAL TERMS TO KNOW

Monism-belief that mind and brain are not separate science Neuroplasticity-behavior and experiences that alter the

entities but that the mind is an extension of the brain
, .
Hermann Von Helmholtz-measured rate of nerve conduction physical brain.
Dualism -
the belief that mind and brain are separate Paul Broca demonstrated functional localization
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in the brain Adult neurogenisis -
the creation of new neurons in an

↳ adult brain
neuroscience
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study of the nervous system BrocalWernickes aphasia.
behavioral neuroscience (blopsych) -
the study that relates Fritsch/Hitzig-discovered motor cortex via,
stimulating dog consciousness -

the state of awareness of one's own thoughts

behavior to bodily processes brains w electrical .
current emotions and experiences
,




THE BIG WIGS Golgi-proposed that neurons are fused together into continuous Ontogeny -

the process by which an individual changes

Hippocrates- believed brain was seat of thoughts and structures (Reticular Theory) In the course of its lifetime -

"grows up and old"

emotion Ramon y Cajal
-
Proved that neural tissue consists of separate Reductionism-breaking a system down into
increasingly
Aristotle -
believed heart was seat of thoughts and cells (The Neuron Doctrine smaller parts in order to understandIt.


emotion , brain served as a cooling organ STUDIES

Galen-suggested brain mediated mental function somatic intervention-changes In body structure or function

Descartes -
dualist but , suggested link between soul which results in a change in behavior

=
and brain. Movement a push from brain , caused by behavioral intervention -
a change in behavior that causes a


the mind (soul change in bodily structure/function
Luigi Galvani-first evidence that nervous system signals Correlation how changes 1 variable are related
examining in
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were electrical . to changes in another variable (NOT CAUSATION)

Johannes Miller -

Father of Doctrine of Specific nerve E
.


↳ the mind
has access to objects only ,
to nerves


perceptions depend on nerve energies, reaching the


brain and that the quality we experience depends
on which nerves are stimulated.

, CHAPTER 2- cells and structures neurotransmitter receptor -

a specialized protein that selectively corpus callosum-band of axons connecting the 2 hemispheres
NERVOUS SYSTEM PARTS senses and reacts toa correspondingneurot or hormone Precent gyrus -
In front of central sulcus Vital for motor ,




neuron-the most basic unit of the nervous system axonal transport -

transport of material from cell body to control

synapse
-
the cellular location at which information is axon terminals (and vice versal Postcent .
gyrus-behind central sulcus ,
vital for somato-

transmitted from a neuron to another cell . (synaptic button) Olial cells -
additional structure/support cells
sensory information
axon terminal
Dendrite ↳
cell body axon 1 oligodendrocyte-alal cell that forms myelin In CNS Gray matter areas of the brain dominated by cell
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·
& maavonepechwacecelthatfommyenPN
& bodies devoid of
,




direction White matter-ared of brain
myelin
consisting of axons mea
↑ axon hillock F


conduction
a
output ↳
~ Integration injured
:
zone cellular debris from cells . Forebrain hemispheres hypolthalamus
:

microglia-remove -
cerebral
where info
,


Input location where where info
transmits
zone
:
decision toproduce is
electrically to other CNS-brain/spinal cord PNS -
all other nerves midbrain -
middle division of brain
processing neural signal transmitted cells
center from occurs Nerve-a collection of axons in PNS hindbrain-cerebellum pons medulla , ,

env or other

hemispheres
.




cells
sensory nerve-afferent signals to CNS Telencephalon -anterior fetal forebrain (becomes

multipolar neuron -


many dendrites extending from Motor nerve-efferent signals to PNS Diencephalon posterior fetal forebrain (becomes
-

hypolthalamus)
cell body and ,
a single axon (most common) Somatic Nervous system -

consists of cranial and spinal Brainster-midbrain pons and medulla ,




Bipolar single dendrite extending from connecting skeletal and BRAIN SYSTEMS :
neuron a nerves
sensory systems
-


,




cell body w/ a single axon Autonomic Nervous System -
a part of the PNS that provides Basal Ganglia-plays a critical role in movement

Unipolar neuron -

a single branch that extends in 2 main neural connections to viscera Limbic system
-

network of structures involved in emotion

directions from the cell body and serves as both an sympathetic-fight or flight parasympathetic-rest/digest and learning
axon and dendrite. Gyrus-Raised portion sulcus-crevice/valley Amygdala
-

includes emotional regulation
BRAIN pre-gurus central acus
learning/memory
:
motor-a neuron that transmits neural messages to Hippocampus-vital for
&-Post
muscles (or glands)
S singulate gurus direction of attention
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gyrus
FRONTAL PARIETAL
sensory
-

a nerve cell affected by changes in environment sylvia thalamus -



sensory traffic cop
Tissue OCC


Sin
.




*
Inter-a neuron that is not motor or
sensory hypothalamus-fight flight , ,
feed f CK.
,




neurotransmitter -
chem released from the presynaptic
L TEMPORAL
Cerebellum

Brainstem
.




neuron to post synaptic neuron olfactory

Libro relacionado
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Neil Verne Watson, S. Marc Breedlove The Mind\'s Machine
Editorial: 2015 ISBN: 9781605352763 Edición: Desconocido

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