Biophysics
Learning + memory
Neurogenesis
Stress + mental illness
Addiction + language
100

The current depends on ______ and ______

What are driving force and conductance?

100

Memories that are easy to form and forget (ex. facts, events)

What is declarative memory?

100
Labeling molecule used to distinguish dividing vs. non dividing cells

What is BrdU?

100

Activation of the HPA axis

What are glucocorticoids?

100

Name one brain region involved in the reward circuit.

VTA, substantia nigra, ACC, striatum, etc.

200

In the falling phase, voltage gated sodium channels are _____ and voltage gated potassium channels are ______.

What is inactivated and closed?

200

The physical "mark" or "trace" of a memory.

What is an engram?

200

The ability of the hippocampus to detect memories that are clustered or separated in time

What is pattern separation

200

Any circumstance that upsets homeostatic balance

What is stress?

200

The hemisphere that is better equipped for language-related functions. 

What is the left hemisphere

300
A cell is equally permeable to sodium and potassium ions. What will be the membrane potential of the cell?

What is around -10mV?

300

A person becoming increasingly sensitive to loud noises after experiencing a very loud, startling sound, causing them to jump or react strongly even to moderately loud sounds afterwards

What is sensitization?

300
Marker(s) needed to identify new neurons
What is a neuron-specific marker (ex. NeuN, calbindin, NSE) and BrdU
300
Two long term effects of the stress response

Fatigue, hypertension, ulcers, decreased memory and cognition, etc.

300

One thing that dopamine neurons know/signal for

The time of unexpected rewarding stimuli, cues that predict upcoming reward, and the time of expected rewards.

400

A device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that are insulated from each other

What is a capacitor?

400

The part of the brain associated with classical conditioning.

What is the cerebellum?

400

The time it takes new neurons to become functional.

What is 4-6 weeks?

400

New hypothesis after monoamine hypothesis proven to be too simple

What is the diathesis stress hypothesis?
400

Two characteristics of Broca's aphasia

ex. deficits in speech production, difficulty with articulation, anomia - trouble with finding the right word to describe something

500

Toxin that causes voltage gated sodium channels to open at more negative voltages

Frog toxins

500

The name of the surgery that patient H.M. received

What is a temporal lobectomy?

500

Name one area of the adult human brain where neurogenesis is detected

What is dentate gyrus (of hippocampus) or walls of the lateral ventricles in the olfactory bulb

500

A node connecting to the HPA axis that shows involvement in affective disorders

What is the ACC (anterior cingulate cortex)?
500

Neural substrate of native language and secondary language

What are polyglots?