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Lec 02- Brain Function Flashcards

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How many neurons are in the cerebral cortex?

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100 billion

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What are the 3 shapes of neurons?

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  • granular (stellate)
  • fusiform
  • pyramidal
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What are the characteristics of granular neurons?

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  • Short axons
  • Interneurons
  • Excitatory and inhibitory
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What causes granular neurons to be excitatory?

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glutamate

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What causes granular neurons to be inhibitory?

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GABA

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Which are the smaller output neurons?

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fusiform

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Which are the larger output neurons?

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pyramidal

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Which cerebral cortex layer is responsible for the termination of most incoming specific sensory signals?

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4

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Which cerebral cortex layer is the origin of most output signals?

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5 and 6

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Which cerebral cortex layer has fibers that go to the thalamus?

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6

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Which cerebral cortex layers have intercortical association functions?

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1, 2, 3

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What happens to the functions of the corresponding cortical areas when the thalamic connections are cut?

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they become almost entirely lost

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What are the 2 sensation areas?

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  • lateral geniculate body

- medial geniculate body

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What is the later geniculate body do?

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  • Relays visual information from the retina to the brain

- Thalamus

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What is the medial geniculate body important for?

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  • Hearing

- Wernicke’s area

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Which cortical area has direct connections with specific muscles?

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Primary motor area

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Which cortical area detects specific sensations?

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Primary sensory area

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Which cortical area provides patterns of motor activity?

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secondary motor area

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Which cortical area analyzes meanings of specific sensory signals?

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secondary sensory area

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What do association areas do?

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receive and analyze signals simultaneously from multiple motor and sensory cortices

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What are the 3 major association areas?

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  • Parieto-occipitotemporal
  • Prefrontal
  • Limbic
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What are the 4 sub-areas of the Parieto-occipitotemporal association area?

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  • Area for analysis of spatial coordinates
  • Wernicke’s area
  • Angular gyrus area
  • Area for naming objects
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What are the functions of the prefrontal association area?

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  • Receives pre-analyzed sensory information necessary for planning effective movement
  • Carries out “thought” processes in the mind
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Where does the sensory information go after entering the prefrontal association area?

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passes through caudate portion of the basal ganglia

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What does Broca's area do?
provides circuitry for word formation
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What side is the Broca's area almost always dominant on?
Left side of brain
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What is the limbic association area concerned with?
- behavior - emotions - motivation
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What is Wernicke's area involved in?
language comprehension
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What is the occipital portion of facial recognition area next to?
visual cortex
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What association area is the temporal portion of the facial recognition area closely associated with?
limbic system
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Extensive damage to what area results in prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces)?
facial recognition area
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What association areas all meet one another in the posterior part of the superior temporal lobe?
- somatic - visual - auditory
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What area is especially developed in the dominant side of the brain?
Area of Confluence
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In right-handed people, what side is dominant and what is it referred to as?
- Left side of the brain | - Werknicke's area
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Which area plays the greatest single role of any part of the cerebral cortex for intelligence?
Wernicke's
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What happens when Wernicke's area is activated?
can call forth complicated memory patterns involving more than one sensory modality
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What 2 areas are more developed in the left hemisphere in 95% of the population?
- Wernicke's area | - The angular gyrus
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Where are the motor areas for controlling hands located?
Left hemisphere in 90% of people
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What are the consequences of a prefrontal lobotomy?
Cannot: - solve complex problems - string together sequential tasks to reach complex goals - do several parallel tasks at the same time - carry through long trains of thought Decreased level of aggressiveness (ambition) Inappropriate social responses Loss of purpose while performing usual motor pattern functions
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What can happen if the brain's working memory is normal?
- prognostication - planning for future - delay in response to incoming sensory signals - consider consequences of motor actions - solve complicated mathematical, legal, or philosophical problems - control of activities in accord with moral law
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What are the major functions of the limbic system?
- gray matter - respond to fear - rage and aggression
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What is the major commissure between the 2 brain hemispheres?
corpus callosum
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What 3 things will happen if the corpus callosum is cut?
- Blocking of transfer of information from Wernicke's > Nondominant motor cortex - Prevention of transfer of somatic and visual information from Right Hemisphere > Wernicke's area - 2 Entirely separate conscious portions of the brain
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What areas are activated when speaking a heard word?
- Broca's area - Primary auditory area - Wernicke's area - Arcuate fasciculus
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What areas are activated when speaking a written word?
- Broca's area - Wernicke's area - Angular gyrus
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What is declarative memory?
memory of various details of an integrated though
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What memories might be included in declarative memory?
- surroundings - time relationships - causes of experience - meaning of experience - deductions as a result of experience
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What type of memory is associated with motor activities?
reflexive (skill) memory
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What memory is the memory of a phone number?
short-term memory lasts only as long as the person thinks of number or facts (seconds)
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What memory lasts many minutes or weeks?
intermediate long-term memory
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Which memory may become long-term memory (more permanent) if memory traces are activated enough?
intermediate long-term memory
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What is studied in Aplysia?
mechanism for facilitation
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What causes serotonin release at the facilitator synapse?
the stimulation of facilitator presynaptic terminal at the same time that sensory terminal is stimulated
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What receptors in the sensory terminal membrane activate adenyl cyclase >> cAMP?
serotonin receptors
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What happens after serotonin receptors in the sensory terminal membrane activate adenyl cyclease?
- cAMP activates part of K+ channel | - K+ channel is blocked for minutes to weeks
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What greatly prolongs AP in synapse terminal?
lack of K+ conduction
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What causes prolonged activation of Ca channels?
prolonged AP in synapse terminal
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What prolongs transmitter release?
prolonged activation of Ca channels due to prolonged AP in synapse because of lack of K+ conduction
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What turns short-term memory into long-term memory?
hippocampus
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What are the 4 structural changes of long-term memory?
Changes in structures of dendritic spines Increase in: - Vesicle release sites for secretion of transmitter substance - Number of transmitter vesicles released - Number of presynaptic terminals

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