Human Behavioral Neuroscience
Uses X-rays to create a 3D image of an organ.
CT scan
What does REM stand for?
Rapid eye movement
What is the class of drugs that seems to increase neural plasticity?
Hallucinogens
With the choice between an empty cage and a cage with a stranger mouse, how does a normal mouse prefer to spend its time?
Stranger mouse
Uses radioactivity to see location of things like neurotransmitter receptors
PET scan
Black
Increase it
In the elevated plus maze anxious animals spend more time in which part of the maze?
Enclosed
What type of matter does Diffusion Tension Imaging look at?
White matter
Which is deeper sleep- REM or non-REM?
non-REM
What is one way to perform birthdating?
Virus or nucleotide
Explain one way that a depressive state can be induced in a rodent.
Learned helplessness, chronic restraint, unpredictable chronic mild stress, social defeat
Explain the oddball paradigm
Same stimuli repeated, interspersed with different stimulus
What are the two Processes that drive sleep?
C and S
Explain apoptosis
Controlled cell death
What is measured during the forced swim test?
Immobility
Which hypothesis did Broca's research prove?
Specialized hypothesis
What are the three things measured during polysomnography?
Eye movements, muscle movements, and brain waves.
Which neurotransmitter leads to excitotoxicity?
Glutamate
Define thigmotaxis
Staying near the edges of the space