Building a Brain
I am the outer germ layer of the embryo that will develop into the nervous system.
What is the ectoderm?
Skill memory is sometimes called this.
What is procedural memory?
I am the most famous receptor involved with LTP.
What is the NMDA receptor?
What is the main commissure severed in the split brain experiments?
What is the corpus callosum?
I am very large in musicians with perfect pitch.
What is the planum temporale?
The term for development of stem cells into more specific cells.
What is differentiation?
My memories only last about a second.
What is sensory memory?
The NMDA receptor is actually a receptor for this neurotransmitter.
What is glutamate?
Anesthetizing one hemisphere is called the _____ test.
What is the Wada test?
Savant behavior has been associated with an enlargement of which hemisphere?
What is the left hemisphere?
I am the fancy term for cellular death.
What is apoptosis?
7 +/- 2
What is short-term memory?
The NMDA receptor has an ion channel for Na and _____.
What is calcium?
"I see the forest."
What is the right hemisphere?
Rates of homicide in non-industrialized countries correlate with me.
What is left-handedness?
I am the neurotrophin primarily found in the peripheral nervous system.
What is NGF?
I mediate classical conditioned memories of the eye blink response in rabbits.
What is the LIP?
PKA will eventually activate this type of kinase.
What is MAP kinase?
I am the commissure connecting the left and right thalamus.
What is the massa intermedia?
Which hemisphere evaluates the emotional tone of language?
What is the right hemisphere?
This is the condition that happens when the caudal portion of the neural tube fails to close normally.
What is spina bifida.
I am the brain region that my mediate procedural memories.
What is the striatum/basal ganglia?
What two researchers first investigated LTP?
Who are Bliss and Lomo (1973)?
I am the researcher who did the first systematic studies on split brain patients. I am not Sperry.
Who is Joseph Bogen?
I am the researcher who first examined lateralization of auditory processing with dichotic listening.
Who is Doreen Kimura?