Neuroanatomy
This structure's name means "little brain"
What is the cerebellum?
The communication style of neurons
What is electrochemical communication?
Levels of this hormone are the most used measure of stress
What is cortisol?
For any drug to have a psychoactive effect, it must be able to cross this
What is the blood-brain barrier?
Measures heart rate
What is ECG?
This structure supposedly looks like a seashorse, giving it its name from the Greek
What is the hippocampus?
The action potential is this kind of a response, like flushing a toilet
What is all-or-none?
The "master gland"
What is the pituitary gland?
This route of drug administration is why you can get drunk via alcohol enemas
What is absorption through mucous membranes?
Measures gross cortical activity (brain waves)
What is EEG?
These are the four lobes of the brain
What is frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal?
At rest, there are more of these kinds of ions outside the neuron
What is sodium?
In this syndrome, individuals have an XY genotype, but female external genitalia
What is androgen insensitivity syndrome?
This structure is most tied to the rewarding effects of addictive drugs
What is the nucleus accumbens?
Reduction in physiological responding after repeated presentation of same stimulus
What is habituation?
This is the anatomical direction coming out of the top of the head
What is dorsal?
This kind of graded potential results in hyperpolarization
What is an IPSP (inhibitory postsynaptic potential)?
This is the most common manipulation of the endocrine system
What is castration?
A shift in the dose-response curve (a graph of the magnitude of the effect of different doses of the drug) to the right
What is drug tolerance?
This is the purpose of using electrode gel or paste
What is lowering impedance (to the flow of electricity)?
These are the meninges, in order from the skull to the brain.
What is the dura mater (tough mother), arachnoid membrane (spider-web-like membrane), and pia mater (pious mother)
Entry of these ions leads to vesicales fusing with the presynaptic membrane to release neurotransmitters
What is calcium?
This is the most influential hypothesis in behavioral endocrinology; proposed by Young, it suggests that some effects of hormones are constrained to early & development and permanent, while others occur in adulthood and are temporary
What is the organizational & activational hypothesis?
Cigarettes activate these receptors in the brain
What are nicotinic cholinergic receptors?
These convert physiological events to electrical potentials suitable for electronic amplification
What are transducers?