Research Fundamentals
This is a testable, educated prediction about the relationship between variables.
What is a hypothesis?
This type of cell is the basic signaling unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
Name the two neuroscience department advisors.
Who are Louis and Anou?
How do you save a table at a UCLA dining hall?
What is placing a napkin on the table?
The central nervous system is made of these 2 major components.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
When neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving the real treatment, the study is described as this.
What is double-blind?
Name the lobe of the brain associated with planning and decision-making.
What is the frontal lobe?
Name any professor who teaches an undergraduate neuroscience course.
Who is [insert professor here]?
What event is held every quarter during Wednesday of finals week?
What is the undie run?
The name of this region of the brain is based on the Greek worse for seahorse.
What is the hippocampus?
This technique measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood oxygenation.
What is fMRI?
This neurotransmitter, often linked to reward and motivation, is depleted in Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
Name a course that Dr. White teaches.
What is Neuro M101A or Physci 175?
What is through Cafe Synapse?
This animal has 9 brains.
What is an octopus?
This type of study examines patients with damage in a particular brain region to infer what that region does.
What is a lesion study?
During an action potential, the rapid influx of this ion through voltage-gated channels causes depolarization.
What is sodium (Na⁺)?
Which professor teaches a module in M101B and the upper-division psychology elective, Psych 110?
Dr. Jeremy Trott
What is the building located on the most northern part of campus called?
What is Melnitz Hall?
These types of neurons fire both when we watch someone perform an action and when we perform the same action.
Running many statistical tests and reporting only the significant ones is called this, and it inflates false positives.
What is p-hacking?
Patient H.M. famously lost the ability to form new declarative memories after surgical removal of the medial portions of this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
Who teaches a neuroendocrinology elective in the physiological sciences department?
Who is Dr. Correa?
Where is the morgue, where brain cutting sessions are held?
Neuroscientists have been able to map out the entire brain and its connectivities (connectome) of this model organism.
What are drosophila/fruit flies?