Know your body
These are the smallest units of motor activity.
Motor units
Her condition led to the development of prefrontal lobotomy
Becky the chimpanzee
The study of nervous system disorders
Neuropathology
Descartes said that this is the principal seat of the soul
Pineal gland
Finding new sexual vigor when you are presented a new presented even though you are tired from a previous session
Coolidge effect
Patella means what?
Knee
This is needed when you are about to conduct a stereotaxic surgery
Stereotaxic atlas
A genetic condition that seems to make a person experience endless hunger and might lead to obesity if left unchecked.
Prader-Willi syndrome
He wrote the book "the organization of behavior"
D.O Hebb
This happens when food is chewed then spit out.
Sham eating
This part of the brain is considered as having a role in memory creation/strengthening due to emotions associated with the event remembered.
Amygdala
A lab experiment setup involving a rotating disk, two mice, and a shallow pool of water.
carousel apparatus
This separates bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.
presence/ absence of compensating behaviors
The actress that inspired the naming of neurons that activate when a person "sees, hears, or otherwise sensibly discriminates" a specific entity.
Jennifer Aniston
This is the loss muscle tone during narcolepsy attacks
Cataplexy
most of the body's energy reserve is stored in
fats
A test assessing working memory capacity. Participants see or hear a sequence of numerical digits and are tasked to recall the sequence correctly, with increasingly longer sequences being tested in each trial.
Digit span test
The condition where a person is unable to execute planned movements but they can do so spontaneously.
Apraxia
He was considered a pioneer of cerebral angiography
Egas Moniz
The type of sleep that usually lasts for two to three seconds
Microsleeps
the SCN is located where?
medial hypothalamus
Widely used in sleep studies because they have a clear circadian rhythm
Hamsters
The condition where a person is genetically male but did not develop male external genitals because their body cannot respond to male hormones.
Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS)
He planned to break a world record of being awake the longest.
Randy Gardner
The plug that blocks the blood flow in the same area that it was formed.
thrombus