Eyes on the Prize
A type of photoreceptor that is densely populated in the fovea and detects color
What are cones?
The three hormones that can be found in both sexes, though the amounts in each are different
What are estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone?
The class of hormones that are released by the adrenal cortex and activate the hippocampus.
What are glucocorticoids?
The area of the brain that is responsible for the production of speech
What is Broca's area?
The two motor areas involved in planning and initiating movement.
What are the premotor area and the supplemental motor area?
The axons of these cells make up the optic nerve
What are retinal ganglion cells?
A DNA sequence that is transcribed when a steroid binds to a receptor
Steroid response element
The activation of the HPA axis and subsequent inhibition of it by the hippocampus forms a self-regulatory mechanism known as this.
What is a negative feedback loop?
A type of aphasia that is characterized by poor speech recognition
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
A loss of dopaminergic neurons in this area is thought to be the underlying cause of Parkinson's disease pathology
What is the substantia nigra?
This neurotransmitter's release is dictated by whether the eye is currently being exposed to light
What is glutamate?
The class of hormone that promotes development of the Wolffian system
What are androgens?
According to Berga et al., what type of therapy was able to successfully reverse FHA in some patients?
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
What is lateralization?
This type of therapy for Parkinson's disease involves delivering an electrical current to a specific part of the patient's basal ganglia.
What is Deep Brain Stimulation?
The type of cell that is found in the surround portion of a bipolar cell's receptive field.
What is a horizontal cell?
The length of the critical period in which you can inject testosterone in a female rat and cause its SDN to grow to the same size as a male rat's
What is 10 days?
These two hormones are released by the adrenal medulla during a stress response.
What are epinephrine and norepinephrine?
When people have a stroke, they often experience language deficits due to the blockage of this part of the brain, which supplies blood to the left side of the brain.
What is the Circle of Willis?
These three factors are thought to be possible causes of dopaminergic neuron death in Parkinson's Disease
What are environmental toxins, genetics, and head trauma?
In the pathway from the eye to the brain, lesioning this specific part of the brain will take away someone's peripheral vision.
What is the optic chiasm?
In the female HPG axis, this withers away during a person's period but is protected when they are pregnant due to the release of chorionic gonadotropin from the placenta
What is the corpus luteum?
The substance released by the hypothalamus that inhibits the anterior pituitary gland
What is Corticotropin-releasing factor?
The type of aphasia that is characterized by not being able to find the right word.
What is anomic aphasia?
Huntington's disease is characterized by a loss of motor control due to the inhibition of this part of the basal ganglia.
What is the globus pallidus?