Memory
Can be used to study spatial memory
What is the Morris water maze?
A form of classical conditioning
What is auditory fear conditioning?
The major neurotransmitters in the brain
What are glutamate, GABA, and glycine?
Symptoms of schizophrenia for which there is no treatment as of yet
What are negative symptoms?
Becomes increasingly less dependent on the hippocampus as time passes after the initial training
What is fear memory?
What is a lesioned hippocampus?
Type of neurotransmitters that act on a slower scale
What are modulatory neurotransmitters, or neuromodulators?
Drugs found to alleviate positive symptoms of schiziphrenia
What are chlorpromazine and reserpine/antipsychotic drugs?
Spatial memory induces LTP at this synapse
What are the hippocampal CA3 to CA1 synapses?
Plays a key role in reward-based learning
What is dopamine?
Can alter neurotransmitter release probability by regulating presynaptic membrane potential
What is dopamine?
Potently addictive because they modulate the brain's reward system
What are psychostimulants?
When the hippocampus 'trains' the establishment of new connections among cortical neurons
What is long-term memory consolidation?
VTA dopamine neurons project preferentially to..
What is the nucleus accumbens?
Neuromodulatory systems that regulate forebrain function
What are the norepinephrine, serotonin, dopamine, and acetylcholine systems?
A neocortical site involved in remote memory
What is the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)?
Where both the CS (tone) and US (shock) reach to
What is the lateral amygdala?
Are coupled to Gi and when activated decreases cAMP concentration
What are D2 receptors?
Enhance the receptor's affinity for GABA, but doesn't activate GABAa receptor on its own
What are benzodiazepines?