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Aristotle

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Thought the heart was the seat of mental capacities, the brains job was to cool the blood.

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What’s the neuron doctrine

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Brain composed of independent cells. Signals transmitted from cell to cell across gaps.

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Hippocrates view?

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Wrote of the brain as the seat of thoughts and emotions

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Galen

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Reported behavioral changes in brain injured gladiators

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What’s old phrenology?

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Assigned separate functions to cortical areas. Bumps on the skull were thought to overdue enlarged brain regions which were matched to behaviors. “More bumps - smarter”

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What’s the neuron doctrine?

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Brain composed of independent cells. Signal transmitted from cell to cell across gaps.

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Santiago Ramon y cajal

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Used golgis cell staining method to observe neurons - proposes neuron doctrine.

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Uni polar neurons

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A single extension that branches in two directions, forming a receptive pil and an output zone

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Bipolar neurons

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One axon, one dendrite. Only found in the eye

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Multi-polar neurons

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One Avon, many dendrites - most common type. Very slow

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Input zone

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Where neurons collect and integrate information, either from the environment or from other cells

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Integration zone

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Where the decision to produce a neural signal is made

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Conduction zone

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Where information can be transmitted over great distances

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Output zone

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Where the neuron transfers information to other cells

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Sensory neurons

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Respond to environment, such as light, odor, or touch

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Motoneurons

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Contact muscles or glands

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Interneurons

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Receive input from and send input to other neurons - integration (most neurons in CNS)

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Name the 4 glial cells

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A strictures, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells, microglia

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What’s an astrocytes

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Most numerous glial cell in brain, look like star. Fill spaces between neurons for support, regulate composition of the extracellular space. Mainly for support

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What’s Alexander’s disease?

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Astrocytes fill up w gfap, then fail

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Oligodendrocytes

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Wrap axons with myelin sheaths inside brain and spinal cord. Each oligodendrocyte wraps several axons. Form segments of myelin sheaths

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What’s nodes of ranvier?

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Where axon membrane is exposed

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What do oligodendrocytes have to do with MS

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They are seen as foreign bodies and get attacked. It’s an injury from autoimmune attack

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What the function of microglia cells?

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Phagocytes that clean up debris from dying neurons and glia

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What are ependymal cells function
Line ventricles, secrete and absorb cerebral spinal fluid
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What are dendritic spines
Dendritic spines have neural plasticity - their # and structure are rapidly altered by experience ( they increase surface area)
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What are the pre ganglionic neurons?
From CNS to autonomic ganglia
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What are post ganglionic neurons
From autonomic ganglia to targets in the body
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What does the sympathetic activation do?
Prepares the body for action
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What does the parasympathetic activation do
Rests and digests (turns things off one by one)
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What's the horizontal plane of the brain?
Top and bottom
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What's the Sagittal cut of the brain
Left and right
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What's the coronal plane of the brain
Front and back
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What does medial mean
Toward the middle
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What's is ipsilateral
Same side
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What's anterior
Head end
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What's proximal
Near center
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What's dorsal?
Toward the back
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What's lateral
Toward the side
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What's contralateral
Opposite side
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What's posterior
Tail end
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What's distal
Toward periphery
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What's ventral
Toward the belly
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What afferent?
Carries impulses into a region of interest (sensory)
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What's efferent
Carries impulses away from a region of interest (motor)
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What's white matter?
Composed of axon bundles. White bc myelin sheaths (white fatty tissue) cover the axons.
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Gray matter
Composed of clusters of cell bodies, have dark gray appearance
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Name the four cortical lobes
Frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal
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What does the basal ganglia control?
Movement
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What is the limbic system in charge of?
Emotional memory, regulation
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What is the diencephalon made up of
Thalamus, hypothalamus, mammillary bodies
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What is reticular formation?
Sleep and arousal. Temperature and motor control. (if this isn't working, you're in a coma)
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What is the pons function?
Contains motor and sensory nuclei to the face
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Medulla
Transition of brain to spinal cord, heart rate, & breathing.
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What's the cerebellum's function?
Motor coordination and learning
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What's a subdural hematoma?
Blood clot in the brain. Slow bleeding
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What do cerebral ventricle do?
They make Csf, surrounds and cushions the brain! Kaitlyn you fucking got this shit
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Explain CSF production
1) Produced by ependymal cells. 2) flows through cerebral aqueduct 3) exits brain at medulla 4) absorbed into blood system
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What's hydrocephalus
Brain filled w fluid. Can put shunt in and drain it
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How many layers does the cerebral cortex have
Six
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What is pachygyria?
There is only 3 layers instead of 6 in the cerebral cortex. Caused by not enough neurons, and neurons that didn't migrate properly.
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What do white matter Tracts do?
Connect brain areas. (Short and long distance connections)
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What's a ct scan
X Ray absorption shows tissue density
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What's an mri
Strong magnets cause protons in brain tissue to line up parallel. A pulse of radio waves knocks protons over. Protons reconfigure, emitting radio waves that differ by tissue density
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What's a pet scan
Used radio active chemicals injected into the bloodstream and maps their destination by their emissions. Identifies which brain regions contribute to specific functions
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What's a functions mri scan
Detects changes in brain Metabolism, like oxygen use, In active brain areas. They can show how networks of brain structures collaborate
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What are meninges
Brain wrappings
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What are the layers of miniges
Dura matter, subdural matter, arachnoid membrane, subarachnoid space, pia matter, artery, brain

Behavioral Neuroscience (3 decks)

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