Origins of Behavioral Neuroscience
The branch of psychology that studies the relationship between behavior and the body, particularly the brain
What is behavioral neuroscience
What is DNA
What are neurons?
Too much of this neurotransmitter is linked to schizophrenia
What is dopamine
The Central Nervous System is strictly composed of these two primary anatomical structures.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
Deals with the mind is and what its relationship to the brain
What is the mind brain problem
All the genes in our chromosomes are called
What is the Human Genome
What is the cell body or soma
This neuromodulator educes pain and enhance enforcement
What is endorphins?
This internal organ beats much faster during a threat to pump extra blood and oxygen to your running muscles.
What is the heart?
A method of gathering information through observations rather than logic, intuition, or other means
What is empiricism
__ is the percentage of the variation in a characteristic that can be attributed to genetic factors
What is heritability
__ receives information from other neurons
What are dendrites
This neurotransmitter is responsible for mood, sleep, and arousal
What is serotonin?
This entire division of the peripheral nervous system operates below your conscious awareness to regulate automatic functions like heart rate and digestion.
What is the Autonomic Nervous System? (ANS)
The idea that the body and the mind and everything else are physical
What is materialistic monism
__ means that genes contribute a predisposition for a disorder, which may or may not exceed the threshold required to produce the disorder
What is vulnerability
What are neurotransmitters
This type of neurotransmitter, like glutamate, promotes an electrical signal to fire in the receiving nerve cell.
What is an excitatory neurotransmitter
This master gland control center in the brain automatically acts as the body's main thermostat, regulating hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus
Who is Paul Broca
Heritability is greatest for?
What is schizophrenia
___wraps around the axon of a neuron to speed up electrical signal transmission
What is the myelin sheath
These neurotransmitters, which include GABA, act to calm the brain down and block electrical signals.
What are inhibitory neurotransmitters?
Located at the base of the skull, this specific region of the central nervous system automatically regulates life-sustaining reflexes like breathing and swallowing.
What is the brainstem? (Also accepted: the medulla oblongata)