Memories
Name and describe the two types of amnesia
What is retrograde amnesia (forgetting past memories) and anterograde amnesia (cannot form new memories)?
Name the role of the amygdala.
What controls the feelings of stress response or fear?
How can you distinguish between bipolar disorder and depression?
Bipolar disorder is characterized by periods of mania.
Drugs are graded on a schedule I through V scale. If we say a drug is a schedule I, what does that mean?
There is high potential for abuse and dependence with no accepted medical use.
Name the different categories of memory.
What is declarative memory (semantic and autobiographical) and non-declarative memory (emotional learning, motor learning, and conditioning)?
Name the brain regions associated with the stress response
What is the HPA axis (hypothalamus, pituitary gland, adrenal gland) and the amygdala
Name the most common drug prescribed for depression.
What are SSRIs?
Marijuana reacts with cannabinoid receptors throughout the brain, where is the areas that they’re concentrated the most?
What are certain areas of the cortex, the hippocampus, and the nucleus accumbens?
What brain region is no longer required in maintaining OLDER declarative memories?
What is the hippocampus?
Which brain region is most directly associated with aggression?
What is the hypothalamus?
Describe the monoamine hypothesis
What is mood disorders arise from lower NT (5-HT, DA, NE) levels
What schedule is marijuana and LSD?
What is schedule I?
Describe what would occur if a rat with a damaged hippocampus underwent the Morris Water Maze
What if the rat would take the same amount of time to find the hidden platform in each subsequent trial?
Prairie voles are a monogamous species, whereas Montane voles are polygamous. Describe the brain differences you would expect to see.
Prairie voles would have a higher density of oxytocin and vasopressin receptors in the brain.
What kind of difference do we tend to see in depressed individuals compared to others when it comes to their brain?
What is reduced volume in the PFC and the hippocampus?
Which schedule is cocaine and fentanyl?
What is schedule II?
DAILY DOUBLE: Let's say patient E.P was given a piano and they've never played before their accident. After a couple of lessons, what would be the results?
What if the patient would get better at playing over the next few lessons but wouldn't be able to recall the lesson from the day before?
Describe the neural differences between motivation and pleasure.
Motivation is related to dopamine transmission, whereas pleasure is related to endogenous opioid transmission.
How do benzodiazepines help the treatment of anxiety disorders?
What is by binding to GABA receptors, it’s easier for the receptors to allow chlorine to pass so it’s effectiveness increases
What is fentanyl classified as (in terms of the drug type?)
What is an opioid?