Neuropharmacology
This class of drugs is commonly prescribed for extreme anxiety disorders or insomnia
What are benzodiazepines?
This region stereotypically controls the "fight or flight" response
What is the amygdala?
This process is essential for brain development and involves the elimination of extra synapses
What is synaptic pruning?
This scientist is considered the father of modern neuroscience
Who is Santiago Ramon y Cajal?
This is an ethical issue concerning the use of brain-enhancing drugs by healthy individuals
What is cognitive enhancement?
SSRIs primarily act on which neurotransmitter system
What is serotonin?
Pavlov is famous for this type of learning
What is classical conditioning?
This part of the brain develops last well into early adulthood
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Who first demonstrated that different parts of the brain controlled different things?
Who is Phineas Gage?
These ethical concerns arise when fMRI is used to infer mental states?
What is neuroprivacy?
This neurotransmitter system is primarily targeted by antipsychotic medications
What is dopamine?
This neurotransmitter is often associated with sleep and arousal regulation
What is norepinephrine?
The migration of neurons during development is guided by this type of glial cell
What are radial glial cells?
This duo won the noble prize for discovering the structure of the nerve cell membrane
Who are Hodgkin and Huxley?
What is memory reconsolidation therapy?
This anesthetic drug is also been used in research to study NMDAR function
What is ketamine?
This behavior is a non-associative form of learning where a response decreases with repeated stimuli
What is habituation?
In the developing nervous system, this protein acts as a key chemoattractant for axonal growth
What is netrin?
In the 19th century, this scientist created a map dividing the cortex into different functional areas
Who is Korbinian Brodmann?
The use of brain stimulation devices raises questions about this ethical principal
What is autonomy?
When these receptors are activated, they can affect mood, appetite, and memory
What are CB1 receptors?
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is most associated with this type of behavioral response
What is the stress response?
This genetic mutation leads to Fragile X Syndrome.
What is the FMR1 gene mutation?
He examined the brain of a woman named Auguste Deter and identified the hallmarks of the neurodegenerative disorder that now bears his name
Who is Alois Alzheimer?
Brain-computer interfaces could challenge this core ethical concept of personal responsibility
What is moral agency?