Structure of the NS
Neuronal Communication
The Synapse
History & Ethics
Methods & Techniques
100
These glial cells make myelin for the peripheral nervous system.
What are Schwann cells?
100
This ion helps to fuse vesicles to the membrane and release their NT's.
What is Ca++?
100
This NT is a member of the monoamine group but not of the catecholamine subgroup.
What is serotonin?
100
This field of psychology seeks to describe the physical mechanisms of the body that mediate our perceptions, our mental activity, and our movement.
What is biological psychology or behavioral neuroscience?
100
Name one of the 3 R's that is a legal standard for animal research.
Reduction, Refinement, & Replacement
200
This helps to maintain the resting membrane potential by removing 3 Na+ ions for every 2 K+ ions that it brings in.
What is the Na+/K+ pump?
200
The action potential is first generated here.
What is the axon hillock?
200
This is the main excitatory NT.
What is glutamate?
200
He is the father of operant conditioning.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
200
This type of brain scan uses a magnet to align and measure spin of hydrogen atoms.
What is an MRI?
300
These are gaps in the myelin sheath.
What are the nodes of Ranvier?
300
This law states that once an axon reaches threshold, the amplitude and velocity of an action potential are nearly equal each time.
What is the all-or-none law?
300
This type of receptor has a slower, indirect, and longer effect once activated.
What is a metabotropic receptor?
300
This is the belief that behaviors are innate.
What is nature?
300
This laboratory instrument is used on research animals during brain surgery.
What is a stereotaxic instrument?
400
These neurons carry information towards the CNS.
What are sensory neurons?
400
This is the shift in a neuron's potential to a more positive direction.
What is depolarization?
400
The receptors for this neuron are called nicotinic and muscarinic.
What are the ACh receptors?
400
This is one of Tinbergen's 4 questions about behavior and asks about a developmental cause for a behavior.
What is the ontogenetic question about behavior?
400
This method is used to measure the activity of a single neuron or multiple neurons.
What is electrophysiology?
500
This is the jumping of the AP from node to node.
What is saltatory conduction?
500
This prevents the action potential from traveling in the opposite direction.
What is the refractory period?
500
These types of PSP's increase the probability that the postsynaptic cell will reach threshold and generate an AP.
What are EPSP?
500
This view of the mind-body problem states that the brain and mind are one in the same.
What is monism?
500
The experimental technique has temporary or permanent effects on the brain of an experimental animal and is used to measure behavior.
What is ablation?
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