Biophysics
The current depends on ______ and ______
What are driving force and conductance?
Memories that are easy to form and forget (ex. facts, events)
What is declarative memory?
What is BrdU?
Activation of the HPA axis
What are glucocorticoids?
Name one brain region involved in the reward circuit.
VTA, substantia nigra, ACC, striatum, etc.
In the falling phase, voltage gated sodium channels are _____ and voltage gated potassium channels are ______.
What is inactivated and closed?
The physical "mark" or "trace" of a memory.
What is an engram?
The ability of the hippocampus to detect memories that are clustered or separated in time
What is pattern separation
Any circumstance that upsets homeostatic balance
What is stress?
The hemisphere that is better equipped for language-related functions.
What is the left hemisphere
What is around -10mV?
A person becoming increasingly sensitive to loud noises after experiencing a very loud, startling sound, causing them to jump or react strongly even to moderately loud sounds afterwards
What is sensitization?
Fatigue, hypertension, ulcers, decreased memory and cognition, etc.
One thing that dopamine neurons know/signal for
The time of unexpected rewarding stimuli, cues that predict upcoming reward, and the time of expected rewards.
A device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other
What is a capacitor?
The part of the brain associated with classical conditioning.
What is the cerebellum?
The time it takes new neurons to become functional.
What is 4-6 weeks?
New hypothesis after monoamine hypothesis proven to be too simple
Two characteristics of Broca's aphasia
ex. deficits in speech production, difficulty with articulation, anomia - trouble with finding the right word to describe something
Toxin that causes voltage gated sodium channels to open at more negative voltages
Frog toxins
The name of the surgery that patient H.M. received
What is a temporal lobectomy?
Name one area of the adult human brain where neurogenesis is detected
What is dentate gyrus (of hippocampus) or walls of the lateral ventricles in the olfactory bulb
A node connecting to the HPA axis that shows involvement in affective disorders
Neural substrate of native language and secondary language
What are polyglots?