Emotions and Stress
Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Drugs and Addiction
Neuroscience Research
Miscellaneous
100
The most agreed upon emotional facial expression across cultures
What is happiness?
100
Disorder characterized by social avoidance and aversive response to social situations
What is social anxiety disorder?
100
The dose of a drug required to produce a desired effect
What is potency?
100
Neuroimaging technique that measures activity via localized blood oxygen saturation
What is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)?
100
Psychiatric disorder that includes ventricular enlargement and hypofrontality
What is schizophrenia?
200
The second phase in the general adaptation to stress theory
What is resistance?
200
Brain structure commonly found to be atrophied in patients diagnosed with PTSD
What is the hippocampus?
200
Subclass of SUD symptoms that includes cravings, tolerance, and withdrawal
What are physical dependence symptoms?
200
Neuroimaging technique that uses radioactive markers to visualize tissue function
What is positron emission tomography (PET)?
200
Technique that measures brain activity by placing electrodes on the skull
What is an electroencephalogram (EEG)?
300
Lesions to this brain region result in Kluver-Bucy syndrome
What is the medial temporal lobe?
300
Psychiatric disorder characterized by intact morality but a deviated sense of right vs wrong
What is sociopathy?
300
This licit substance works by enhancing GABA-A and reducing NMDA activity
What is alcohol?
300
A technique that tests a rodent's pain and pressure response by poking its foot with different-sized filaments
What is the Von Frey test?
300
A neurotoxin that kills catecholaminergic neurons
What is 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA)?
400
Slow acting stress response pathway that results in the release of glucocorticoids
What is the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis?
400
Subclass of schizophrenia symptoms that includes poor memory, abnormal movement, and low attention span
What are cognitive symptoms?
400
Non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist that binds below the Mg2+ block
What is phencyclidine (PCP)?
400
Technique that measures EPSPs and IPSPs from tissue outside the body
What is ex-vivo electrophysiology?
400
The three endogenous opioids
What are endorphins, enkephalins, and dynorphins?
500
Dopaminergic projection from the VTA to the nucleus accumbens that elicits positive emotion
What is the medial forebrain bundle?
500
A gene that controls synaptic plasticity and is associated with schizophrenia
What is Dysbindin?
500
This illicit substance works by binding to dopamine transporters and inhibiting reuptake
What is cocaine?
500
Sodium channel activated by blue light (473 nm)
What is channelrhodopsin?
Way to remember: The English channel is blue
500
Ex-vivo technique used in humans to measure the quantity of certain neurotransmitters
What is magnetic resonance spectroscopy?