Attention & Higher Cognition
Type of attention that happens when there is a loud noise and you look up
What is reflexive attention?
Specific area that releases cortisol
What is the adrenal cortex?
Brain region is the “hub” for anxiety, stress, fear, and addiction?
What is the amygdala?
3 categories of schizophrenia symptoms
What are positive, negative and cognitive symptoms?
DSM-5 defines mental health diagnoses based on these properties
What are behavioral symptoms?
Brain region thought to be seat of conciousness
What is claustrum?
Type of communication between individuals of the same species
What is pheromone?
Primary role of facial expressions
What is "to communicate with others"?
If a person has schizophrenia, relative with the highest risk of developing schizophrenia
What is a monozygotic twin?
Brain region that is associated with the preoccupation and cravings symptoms of a person with substance use disorder
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is attentional spotlight?
The 3 structures that compose the HPA axis
What are hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal gland?
3 drivers of emotional responses
What are physiology, feelings and cognitive analysis?
Word that describes when 1 twin has a disorder but the other doesn't
What is discordant?
2 neurotransmitter receptors that alcohol directly effects
What are GABAA and NMDA receptors?
Provide an example of early-selection processing
What is "when you don't notice the gorilla on the screen because you are focused on counting the basketball passes"?
Example of hormone that is released from the posterior pituitary
What is oxytocin? Or, vasopressin
Experience that dictates whether an early life stressor leads to resilience or risk for developing an anxiety disorder later in life
What is stress immunization? Or, whether there is parental/caregiver comfort after a stressful event?
Gene related to synapse development that affects ventricle volume
What is Disc1?
3 categories of symptoms that define alcohol use disorder in DSM-5
What are loss of control over drinking, physical dependence and clinical impairment?
2 parts of the prefrontal cortex that are critical for executive function, and their functions
What are orbitofrontal (goal-directed behaviors) and dorsolateral PFC (planning, working memory, etc...)?
3 steps that cause steroid hormone signaling to take hours
What is "they must bind nuclear receptors, translocate to the nucleus, and then alter transcription"?
2 pathways that allow the amygdala to detect threat and their functions
What are low road (immediate responses to threats) and high road (observational fear learning)?
3 brain changes that have been found in people with schizophrenia
What are larger ventricle volumes, smaller and disorganized hippocampus, and thinning of grey matter?
What happens in the amygdala once a person has developed substance use disorder
What is increased activation when the person is thinking about the drug of abuse (or related things)?