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When did the larynx change location?

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300,000 years ago

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What was a consequence of the change in larynx location?

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Greater speech sounds, but also greater vulnerability to choking

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What side of the brain is language processed on for most people (~95%)?

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Left side (lateralization)

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What part of language processing is the right hemisphere involved in?

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Narrative speech, map-reading, prosody

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How many languages currently exist?

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6,000 (80% are undocumented, 90% doomed to be extinct in the coming century)

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According to National Geographic Society, how often does a language die?

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Every 14 days

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What are the two types of aphasias?

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Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia

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What is a frequent cause of aphasia?

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Left-sided MCA strokes

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Broca’s aphasia

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Expressive aphasia, generally aware of deficits, difficulty with speech production but not comprehension

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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Receptive aphasia, usually unaware, impaired comprehension (cannot comprehend or integrate, often responds with sort of word salad)

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Where is Broca’s area located?

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Frontal lobe, motor area

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Where is Wernicke’s area located?

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Temporal lobe, auditory cortex

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What are the 3 stages of learning?

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Sensory, short-term, long-term

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How quickly does sensory information get processed?

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<1 second

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How quickly does short-term memory get processed?

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<1 minute

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How many things can you remember at a time?

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7 +/- 2

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How do you support your short-term memory?

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Repitition or chunking

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What is a form of converting short-term memories into long-term memories?

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Consolidation

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What are the 4 types of learning?

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Stimulus-response
Motor learning (driving a car)
Perceptual learning
Observational learning

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What types of conditioning are involved in stimulus-response learning?

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Classical and operant (positive/negative reinforcement)

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What parts of the brain are involved in classical conditioning (in stimulus-response learning)?

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Amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus

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What pathways/systems in the brain support learning?

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Mesolimbic and mesocortical systems

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In motor learning, what parts of the brain helps move the action from conscious to unconscious?

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Basal ganglia (motor)

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Observational learning occurs via….

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Operant conditioning and vicarious conditioning

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What are some examples of perceptual learning?
Attribution bias and confirmation bias (we've learned through repeated exposure)
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Where are mirror neurons concentrated?
PFC and around the amygdala
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What makes us more likely to model the behaviors we see?
Positive perception, shared (perceived) traits, stand out, familiarity, self-efficacy in mimicry
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What are mirror neurons thought to enable?
Empathy Skill building through mimicry Vicarious experiences (essential for social interaction, lower number in psychopathy and ASD)
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Evidence exists for what types of learning?
Spaced learning, interleaving, writing rather than typing, studying in natural light, power naps, context-dependent learning
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What are the 2 types of memory within long-term memory?
Implicit and explicit
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What is a type of implicit memory?
Procedural memory
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Explicit memory is made up of...
Declarative memory which is broken up into episodic memory and semantic memory
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Describe the case of HM
Removed hippocampus and amygdala due to severe epilepsy; removal reduced seizures and increased IQ score slightly but had severe amnesia, no memory from the past, could learn new things but each day he would say "Today I woke for the first time" (implicit preserved, explicit was not)
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Difference between anterograde and retrograde amnesia?
Anterograde = impaired capacity for new learning, failure in explicit learning Retrograde = loss of information that was acquired before the onset, failure of implicit memory
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Which conditions show hippocampal volume loss?
Alzheimer's disease, depression, childhood stress, ETOH, PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder
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When does long-term memory peak?
Age 8
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Is storage of memory permanent?
Every time you retrieve a memory, there is some adaptation plus with heightened emotions, memories are often altered
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Names for strokes (2)
Infarcts (tissue death due to stroke) Cardiovascular accident (CVA)
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Risk factors for CVDs
Hypertension Diabetes Smoking Obstructive sleep apnea Obesity
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What are the 3 types of stroke?
Ischemic Hemorrhagic Transient ischemic stroke (TIA)
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What is the cause of cell death in ischemic stroke?
Excessive amounts of glutamate (glutamate exotoxicity)
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What are the two possible causes of an ischemic stroke?
thrombus (blood clot) or embolus (piece of material breaks off and is carried through the bloodstream until it reaches an artery too small to pass)
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What are the non-modifiable stroke risk factors?
Age Race Family history
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What is the system that provides over 80% of oxygenated blood to the cerebrum?
Circle of Willis
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What are the 3 main vessels that the internal carotid artery perfuses?
Anterior cerebral artery (ACA) Middle cerebral artery (MCA) Posterior cerebral artery (PCA)
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MCA stroke make up how many (%) of strokes?
90%
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Deficits of ACA versus MCA strokes
ACA strokes affect lower extremities (contralateral) whereas MCA strokes affect upper extremities and face (contralateral)
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What do PCA strokes affect?
Consciousness Nausea Ataxia Vision changes
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What are AVMS?
Arteriovenous malformations--another way to develop a stroke (1-2% of strokes)
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Psychiatric considerations for stroke
Depression, GAD, SOME psychosis (rare)
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BE FAST
Balance, eyes, face, arms, speech, time
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What is the breakdown of cellular fluid?
2/3 intracellular, 1/3 extracellular
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What are the 2 types of extracellular fluid?
Intravascular (blood plasma) Interstitial (fluid that bathes the cells)
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What is tonicity?
the ability of a surrounding solution to cause a cell to gain or lose water via osmosis (relationship between interstitial and intercellular)
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What is hypertonic?
When you're "hyper" you are putting a lot of energy out there--water is moving OUT of the cell
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What are the 2 types of thirst?
Osmometric thirst (cell dehydration) Volumetric thirst (intravascular blood plasma volume decreases)
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What is responsible for osometric thirst control?
Osmoreceptors
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Where are osmoreceptors located?
Lamina terminalis
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What are osmoreceptors?
a neuron that detects changes in solute concentration of interstitial fluid
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What part of the brain is activated by thirst?
Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
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What is part of the natural process of dying?
Cell dehydration
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What is the delay in the negative feedback loop of satiety?
20 minutes
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What is the hormone released that stimulates eating behaviors/hunger?
Ghrelin
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What is caused by excessive levels of ghrelin?
Prader-Willi Syndrome (genetic disorder where they never feel satiated)
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What are the 2 parts of the hypothalamus activated by ghrelin?
Lateral hypothalamus Ventromedial hypothalamus
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Ghrelin and cortisol levels
High Ghrelin increases cortisol Low Ghrelin decreases cortisol leading to reduced stress/anxiety (mechanism behind stress eating)
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What type of neurons does ghrelin activate?
Orexin producing neurons
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How is obesity defined?
BMI >30
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What brain pattern is bulimia nervosa associated with?
Decreased blood flow to the precuneus
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What is the overlap between brain injury and PTSD?
Inflammation
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What are microbes?
Bacteria Archaea Fungi Protists Viruses Phages Microscopic animals
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Alpha versus beta diversity?
Alpha = how many species are present in a single individual (and how evenly they are represented) Beta = difference in diversity BETWEEN two samples
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Urban living leads to ____ diversity in microbes/microbiome
Less
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What is the "old friends" hypothesis
Increases in chronic inflammatory disorders in high-income countries is thought to be failing immunoregulation, attributable to reduced exposure to the microbial environment within which the mammalian immune system co-evolved
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What is the nerve responsible for gut/brain direct line of communication?
Vagus nerve
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What is the leading cause of disability in adults?
Stroke
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What is the basic definition of stroke?
Interruption of normal blood flow to the brain
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Why do people lose consciousness with subarachnoid hemorrhages?
"percussive" blood pressure impact of the hemorrhage increases and intracranial pressure and reduces cerebral perfusion pressure
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What is the Hunt-Hess and Fisher scale?
Comatose grading and what it means in terms of outcomes
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Grade I versus grade V on Hunt and Hess scale
Grade I = asymptomatic or minimal headache and slight nuchal rigidity Grade V = deep coma, decerebrate rigidity, moribund appearance
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Symptoms of MCA syndrome?
Contralateral weakness Contralateral cortical sensory loss Homonymous hemianopsia or quadrantanopsia Gaze preference Dysphagia
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What is neglect?
Failure to attend to, respond to, and/or report stimulation that is introduced contralateral to the lesion
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What is a negative functional outcome predictor in stroke cases?
Persistent neglect
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Apraxia
Loss of ability to execute skilled or learned movement patterns on command
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Agnosia
Acquired inability to associate a perceived unimodal stimulus (i.e., visual, auditory, tactile) with meaning, disorder of recognition (NOT naming)
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What are the two types of TBI?
Closed and penetrating
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What are two parts of a closed TBI?
Coup contrecoup Diffuse axonal injury
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What is a part of the recovery process of TBI?
post-traumatic amnesia (PTA)
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What kind of curve/relationship does TBI recovery show?
Dose response relationship
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What are some non-injury risk factors that influence TBI outcomes?
Pre-injury psychiatric status Age at injury Level of educaiton Stable employment (6months pre-injury) Marital status (proxy for social support) Other physical injuries sustained during accident
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What are 2 classification systems for TBI?
Glasgow coma scale (GCS) Rancho Los Amigos Scale Revised (RLAS-R)
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What does GCS look at/assess?
Eye response, motor response, verbal response
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What does the Rancho Los Amigos Scale Revised assess?
How much assistance the individual requires and how they are responding behaviorally (level of agitation)
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What is level 4 on the Rancho Los Amigos Scale Revised?
Confused/agitated (needing maximal assistance)
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How long does it take for cognitive changes to resolve after mild TBI?
Weeks to 3 months (at most)
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How long do changes persist after moderate-severe TBI?
>2years

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