Neuropharmacology
Behavioral
Developmental
History
Neuroethics
200

This class of drugs is commonly prescribed for extreme anxiety disorders or insomnia

What are benzodiazepines?

200

This region stereotypically controls the "fight or flight" response

What is the amygdala?

200

This process is essential for brain development and involves the elimination of extra synapses

What is synaptic pruning?


200

This scientist is considered the father of modern neuroscience

Who is Santiago Ramon y Cajal?

200

This is an ethical issue concerning the use of brain-enhancing drugs by healthy individuals

What is cognitive enhancement?

400

SSRIs primarily act on which neurotransmitter system

What is serotonin?

400

Pavlov is famous for this type of learning

What is classical conditioning?

400

This part of the brain develops last well into early adulthood

What is the prefrontal cortex?

400

Who first demonstrated that different parts of the brain controlled different things?

Who is Phineas Gage?

400

These ethical concerns arise when fMRI is used to infer mental states?

What is neuroprivacy?

600

This neurotransmitter system is primarily targeted by antipsychotic medications

What is dopamine?

600

This neurotransmitter is often associated with sleep and arousal regulation

What is norepinephrine?

600

The migration of neurons during development is guided by this type of glial cell

What are radial glial cells?

600

This duo won the noble prize for discovering the structure of the nerve cell membrane

Who are Hodgkin and Huxley?

600
This technique raises ethical questions about altering memories in PTSD patients

What is memory reconsolidation therapy?


800

This anesthetic drug is also been used in research to study NMDAR function

What is ketamine?

800

This behavior is a non-associative form of learning where a response decreases with repeated stimuli

What is habituation?

800

In the developing nervous system, this protein acts as a key chemoattractant for axonal growth

What is netrin?

800

In the 19th century, this scientist created a map dividing the cortex into different functional areas

Who is Korbinian Brodmann?

800

The use of brain stimulation devices raises questions about this ethical principal

What is autonomy?

1000

When these receptors are activated, they can affect mood, appetite, and memory

What are CB1 receptors?

1000

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is most associated with this type of behavioral response

What is the stress response?

1000

This genetic mutation leads to Fragile X Syndrome.

What is the FMR1 gene mutation?

1000

He examined the brain of a woman named Auguste Deter and identified the hallmarks of the neurodegenerative disorder that now bears his name

Who is Alois Alzheimer?

1000

Brain-computer interfaces could challenge this core ethical concept of personal responsibility

What is moral agency?

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