Brain Diseases
This brain disorder has these characteristics tremors, stiffness, and bradycardia, and causes a loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
This technique is used to study the brain activity by measuring the changes in blood flow and uses infrared light to track oxygen levels in the brain.
What is functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy?
This is part of the brain that controls your breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure, that is located at the base of the skull.
What is the brainstem?
This action converts sensory stimulus energy into action potential.
What is transduction?
This system of perceptions is built from sensory input.
What is bottom-up processing?
This condition can be caused by a stroke or brain injury and can result in temporary or permanent loss of memory and cognitive functions, with these symptoms confusion, and difficulty concentrating.
What is amnesia?
This brain scan is used to detect brain activity by measuring the metabolic processes in the brain, can tell cognitive function, and is more often used to detect cancer.
What is a PET scan?
This part of the brain is located above the brainstem and controls your emotions, memory and the formation of new memories.
What is the limbic system?
This is the lowest amount of energy that must be present for stimulus to detect 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
This is the process where sensations are influenced by available knowledge, experiences and thoughts.
What is top-down processing?
This is a common form of dementia that involves memory loss, confusion, and changes behavior.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
This is a machine that has probes that attach to the scalp during sleep to research a person's sleep, attention, and cognitive processes.
What is EEG?
This part of the brain has two hemispheres and is responsible for higher cognitive functions like thinking, reasoning, and problem solving, this part of the brain is the most advanced in humans.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This is when you get messages below the threshold of conscious awareness.
What is subliminal message?
This is when something is right in front of your face and you still cannot see it.
What is inattentional blindness?
This condition caused by damage to the brain's blood vessels and can result in sudden neurological impairments, with the most common symptom of one-sided paralysis.
What is a stroke?
This imaging test is used for psychological research, and involves using magnetic fields and radio waves to look for disorders like schizophrenia.
What is an MRI?
This part of the brain controls your coordination when you are moving, along with processing sensory information, and emotion regulation.
What is the cerebellum?
This difference in stimuli is required to detect differences between stimuli.
What is "just noticeable difference"?
This theory states that there is a change in stimulus detection that changes the mental state.
What is signal detection theory?
This disorder causes a person to have seizures because of an abnormal brain activity, usually found in young children that follow them through life, and can be caused by genetics, brain injury, or infections.
What is epilepsy?
Like an MRI this method tracks your brain activity in real-time, psychologist use this test to see a person's emotional responses, decision-making, and cognitive processes.
What is an fMRI?
This is the "thinking brain" of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
This change in stimulus is often referred to as the "just noticeable difference".
What is difference threshold?
This test involves focusing on one stimulus while you ignore another stimulus.
What is a selective attention test?