Behavioral Neuroscience Retreat 2023

Chemogenetics

100

Technique developed by Brian Roth's lab at Case Western. 

Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs)

200

The ligand of choice for DREADDs

Clozapine N-oxide

300

Canonical excitatory DREADD

HM3Dq

400

Canonical inhibitory DREADD

hM4Di

500

The C in CNO belongs to this class of drugs. 

Clozapine - atypical antipsychotics

NAME THAT NEUROTRANSMITTER (IUPAC)

100

4-aminobutyric acid

GABA 

200

4-(2-Aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diol

Dopamine

300

(2-Acetoxyethyl) trimethylammonium

Acetylcholine 

400

2-(1H-Imidazol-4-yl)ethanamine

Histamine

500

(2S)-2-aminopentanedioic acid 

Glutamate

Regional Etymology

100

In Greek, "Seahorse" 

Hippocampus

200

In Latin, "Pine Cone"  

Pineal Gland

300

Via Latin from Greek "Almond"

Amygdala

400

In Latin "Upper Hill"

Superior Colliculus 

500

In Latin, "Tuft of Wool"

The Flocculus

Who am I?

100

Phineas Gage didn't need it 

Frontal Lobe

200

Midbrain nucleus not just for eye movements 

Edinger-Westphal nucleus

300

I release Prolactin 

Pituitary Gland 

400

I recognize faces. 

Fusiform Face Area

500

I connect the temporal and inferior parietal cortex to the frontal lobe. 

arcuate fasciculus

Name That Technique

100

Noninvasive brain stimulation using magnetic fields. 

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 

200

Functional imaging technique using radiotracers

Positron Emission Tomography 

300

What does TRAP stand for? 

translating-ribosome affinity purification

400

One of two methods used to originally measure biogenic amines using electrodes. 

Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry or Amperometry 

500

The ancient processes of performing a craniotomy with a hand tool. 

Trepanation