This newer scanning technique measures blood flow to the brain, identifying what parts of the brain are active.
What is fMRI?
100
Our triune brain consists of the brain stem, the prefrontal cortex, and this, also called the "mammalian brain".
What is the limbic system?
100
This hemisphere is online and functioning at birth.
What is the right hemisphere?
100
Having this type of life narrative is predictive of having children with a secure attachment.
What is coherent?
100
The most complex entity in the known world is the __________ __________.
What is the human brain?
200
Older methods of brain research include animal studies, functional brain studies and this type of graphing using electrodes.
What is EEG?
200
This structure is able to "highjack the brain", according to Goleman, and is at the core of the limbic system.
What is the amygdala?
200
Logic, linearity, language, and dealing with details happens here.
What is the left hemisphere?
200
Research shows that the brain circuits for madly-in-love people are the same as the brain circuits in people addicted to this drug.
What is cocaine?
200
Neurons are fundamentally __________, they survive by connecting to other neurons to form networks.
What is social?
300
Only 2% of this is different between chimpanzees and humans.
What is DNA?
300
Myelination of this area continues throughout the lifespan and allows for greater thoughtfulness, judgement and response flexibility, increasing emotional regulation.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
300
This is the interpreter of our experience, also plays the role of narrator, giving us the experience of being a subject.
What is the left hemisphere?
300
Oxytocin has been nicknamed the ________ _________ (2 wds) by Taylor, reflecting its function of modulating attachment through its release during touch, nursing, and empathy.
What is the cuddle chemical?
300
Research shows that well attached parent-baby pairs are out of sync 70% of the time. What matters is the __________, which comes after the mismatch.
What is repair?
400
This acronym, frequently used by clinicians, stands in for the unit a person is born into, including parents and siblings.
What is FOO?
400
This brain structure connects the right and left hemispheres, allowing for integration of thoughts and feelings, and for creating coherent narratives of life experiences.
What is the corpus callosum?
400
Parents actively sculpt their child's growing brain in infancy, mostly through interaction from this hemisphere in the parent to this hemisphere in the baby.
What is right brain to right brain interaction?
400
Parent and infant coregulate each other through matching states also called _____________ __________ (2wds.)
What is contingent communication?
400
Neurons that do not connect to other neurons die. This normal process is called pruning, or _____________.
What is apoptosis (or programmed cell death)?
500
This axis is activated by threat, produces cortisol, and readies the body for flight or fight.
What is HPA (Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal)?
500
These brain cells, first discovered in monkeys, are active in resonance, the automatic process in which one feels what the other feels, one aspect of empathy.
What are mirror neurons?
500
As the hippocampus develops around age 2, the explicit or conscious memory system develops in this hemisphere.
What is the left hemisphere ?
500
Cozolino, who has studied and written about neuroplasticity in older adults, advocates being open to new experiences, learning new things, and physical and mental exercise in order to avoid being stuck in our neural ruts and living with "hardening of the _____________."
What is categories?
500
Daniel Siegel uses the image of navigating the "river of integration" to describe the flexibility needed for changing circumstances in the family. On one side is the bank of rigidity, and on the other, the bank of __________.