Neuroscience Presentation 1 - Psy 343 Final

What is behavioural neuroscience?

What is neuroanatomy

What is neurochemistry?

What is neuroendocrinology?

What is neuropathology?

What is Neuropharmacology?

What is neurophysiology?

What is included in the CNS?

What is included in the PNS?

What are the divisions of the somatic nervous system?

What are the divisions of the ANS

What are the structural classes of neurons?

What are the three components of a multipolar neuron?

Multipolar neurons

What are the five major divisions of the brain?

What are the major structures in the telencephalon?

Name the two most prominent landmarks on the lateral surface of each hemisphere

Name the largest gyri

4 important characteristics of the neocortex

Why may a brain layer be thicker than other brain layers?

Name the 6 layers of the cerebral cortex

What is the limbic system involved in?

What are the brain structures of the limbic system?

What are the basal ganglia?

What is the HPA axis?

Two pathways in which the hypothalamus sends messages to the endocrine glands

What are the stages of general adaptaion syndrome?

Stress to Depression hypothesis

Where do the mesocortical and mesolimbic DA pathways originate from?

In the mesocortical DA system, where do the VTA neurons of the A10 group innervate?

Where do the VTA DA neurons of the A10 region project to?

What is the mesolimbic DA system?

Rats and primates exposed to stress (shock; restraint stress, etc.) show increased levels of _______ _______ in the _____, ________, & ________

When exposed to stress, you usually see an increase of dopamine metabolites such as ________

The dopamine theory of schizophrenia

How may an overactive DA system be linked to psychiatric illness?

What does the inhibition of DA receptor & systems tend to do?

Common Features of Epilepsy

The types of seizures in epilespsy

What are the causes of seizures in epileptics? How is a diagnosis given?

What is the most common form of epilepsy, and where in the brain is it found?

What is Parkinson's Disease associated with?

What is Multiple Sclerosis and what are the symptoms?

Things to consider in neuroscience when thinking about the brain and behaviour

What can plasticity take the form of?

What are LTP and LTD?

Contributions on Donald Hebb

It can be said that behavioural neuroscience deals and encompasses

Why is it advantageous to study humans in biopsychological research ?

Why us nonhuman animals as subjects?