Localization of Function
Some of the first research on localization was on brain damaged patients who had trouble with this
What is speech/language
The smallest form of neuroplasticity.
What is synaptic plasticity? (due to dendritic branching)
The electrical impulse that travels along the body of the neuron is called an action potential. When an action potential travels down this part of the neuron, it releases neurotransmitters that are stored in the neuron’s terminal buttons.
What is the axon?
Hormones are chemical messengers delivers through this.
what is the blood stream?
In twin research, the correlation found is called this.
what is the concordance rate?
The view that every human behavior and function has a specific place in the brain that controls it
The fact that synapses become stronger through repeated use.
What is long-term potentiation?
Serotonin is this type of neurotransmitter, as it decreases the likelihood that the neurons will fire an action potential.
what is Inhibitory?
hormones bind to these and then influence a sequence of changes (including gene activation or suppression).
what are target cells?
Different forms of genes that can be dominant or recessive.
what are alleles?
In the longitudinal case-study of HM, multiple methods were used (psychological testing, experiments, interviews) allowing for method and data __________.
What is triangulation?
Draganski et al (2006) used this type of design to suggest that learning a new skill (juggling) led to an increased volume in the mid-temporal area of the brain, associated with visual memory.
what is independent samples?
As used in Crockett et al (2010), the agonist citalopram, blocks this process involving serotonin neurotransmission.
what is reuptake?
What does (VNO), the structure mammals have to detect pheromones, stand for?
The study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.
what is epigenetics?
In Maguire et al (2000), which part of London taxi driver's brains showed less volume than the control MRI's in this part of the brain
What is the posterior hippocampus?
When a synapse is not used or is under-stimulated, it may go through this process.
What is synaptic pruning?
As used in Antonova (2011), scopolamine is an antagonist to this neurotransmitter.
what is Acetylcholine?
In the follow-up condition, McGaugh & Cahill (1996) injected one group of participants with a beta-blocker called propranolol in order to block the part of the brain that is activated by stress hormones.
what is the amygdala?
The results of Kendler (2006), done in this country, showed that concordance rates for MDD were significantly higher in women than men, as well as for monozygotic vs. dizygotic twins.
what is Sweden?
What is the amygdala
Draganski and Maguire used this function of an MRI to determine if there were significant differences in neural density (grey matter).
What is voxel-based morphometry [VBM]?
A strength of Antonova (2011) was the use of this procedure when assigning the participants to the two conditions before playing the arena task. It helps control researcher bias.
What is double-blind?
What was the dependent variable in the human pheromone study Zhou (2014)?
what is rating the stick figure as more masculine or more feminine?
According to Caspi et al (2003), simply inheriting a short allele variation of this gene was not enough to lead to depression.
what is the 5-HTTP gene?