Neuroplasticity
Neurons firing together repeatedly creates stronger synapse and neural pathways called this.
What is Long-Term Potentiation?
The type of research involved in the in depth look at individuals or specific groups. These studies lack generalizability.
What is a case study?
Measures electrical activity on the surface of the brain. Useful in identifying sleep disorders and epilepsy. this brain scan machine can track function, but not structure.
What is EEG Electroencephalogram?
Stimulates and increases digestion.
What is parasympathetic?
Stores neurotransmitters in these sac membranes located in the axon terminal buttons.
What are synaptic vesicles?
Making important decisions, planning, setting goals, personality all come from this frontal lobe cortex.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The creation of new neurons is called this.
What is neurogenesis?
A research team tracked new cab drivers of London and scanned their brains to observe changes in this structure of the brain as they learned and memorized routes over a period of time.
What is hippocampus?
What is structure and function?
Decreases digestion; increases blood pressure and heart rate.
What is sympathetic?
When neurotransmitters are reabsorbed into the presynaptic cleft, instead of the receiving neuron's dendrites.
What is reuptake?
Thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala and hippocampus are part of this system deep in our brains involved, in memory, emotion, sensory processing and reproduction drive.
What is the limbic system?
A few weeks after a hemispherectomy of 3-year old Jody Miller's right hemisphere doctors saw her left hemisphere take over functions typically associated with the right hemisphere in this specific example of neuroplasticity.
What is functional plasticity?
In the Jody Miller case study this procedure was done. and was determined that the brain had compensated for the loss of the right hemisphere in an example of neuroplasticity.
What is a hemispherectomy?
This brain scan technology measures changes inoxygen levels while tracking activation and deactivation of specific brain areas.
What is functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging fMRI?
The sympathetic and parasympathetic functions are involuntary reactions that are part of this specific nervous system of the PNS.
What are autonomic nervous system?
The point of a neural firing before the membrane of a neuron reaches firing threshold.
What is resting potential?
Loose neurons located in the core of the brain stem regulating consciousness, and autonomic functions.
What is reticular formation/ reticular activating system (RAS)?
According to neurologist, these two actions that people can control affects the brain's ability to create new neurons, or even destroy them.
What is exercise and social isolation?
Autopsy; surgery/ brain lesions; brain scan technologies and this case study involving a railroad iron rod and someone's skull have contributed to what we know about the brain.
What is Phineas Gage?
What is a split-brain procedure?
In the event of needing to get some sleep and relax one might attempt to activate this specific subset of the PNS.
What is the parasympathetic system?
Without practice neurons go unused and undergo Long-Term Depression (LTD), weakening between neural pathways; however with practice and repeated use by studying, neurons could experience this instead.
What is Long Term Potentiation / structural plasticity?
The lobe associated with processing sensory information via tha somatosensory cortex.
What is the parietal lobe?
Aside from improved neural network pathways, these two microscopic characteristics of neural firing also increase.
What are increased neurotransmitters and concentration of receptors.
In the Gabby Gifford case study, the ability for the brain to takeover functions of another area particularly after significant brain damage is this specific neuroplasticity.
What is functional plasticity?
Using a safe radioactive tracer this machine can help track early signs of cancer, heart disease and brain conditions.
What is a Positron Emissions Tomography scan PET scan?
Saliva production and constricted pupils are signs this PNS function has been activated.
What is parasympathetic nervous system rest and digest?
An evolutionary psychologist may point to this concept as an explanation for our instinctual or survival behaviors. Darwin would be proud.
What is natural selection?
The spatial layout of your house, or the city is mostly a function of this limbic structure which is involved in also converting short memory into long-term memory.
What is hippocampus?