2017-12-05 18:26:52

Prelude

Today's topics

  • Review for Exam 4
    • Monday, December 11, 12:20-2:10 pm in 302 Boucke

History

  • Descartes thought ____ about the ____
  • Fluid from the cerebral ventricles was once thought to ____

Methods

  • Single unit recordings have ____ spatial and ____ temporal resolution.
  • EEG has____ spatial and ____ temporal resolution.
  • Single unit recordings measure ____; EEG measures ____.

Anatomy

  • Directional terms, slices
    • In the human forebrain ____ and superior overlap.
  • Gross
    • The ____ means "little brain" in Latin
    • The ____ and ____ in the midbrain release dopamine
    • The ____ controls endocrine and ANS activity.

  • Gross anatomy
    • The insula is located deep inside the ____.
    • Forebrain/midbrain/hindbrain
    • ventricles/CSF, meninges, blood supply
    • Gyri/sulci
    • lobes, insula/insular cortex
    • gray/white matter

Cellular anatomy

  • Neurons receive most of their input on the ____ and ____.
  • Gray matter is made of ____; white matter is made of ____.

Neurophysiology

  • Resting potential
    • In neuron at rest, [??] inside is greater than outside; What force(s) ____ push [Na+] inward?
  • Ca++ influx is involved in ____, ____, and ____.
  • EPSP/IPSPs are ____ than action potentials

  • Nodes of Ranvier contain lots of ____gated channels
  • The absolute refractory period occurs when voltage-gated Na+ channels ____
  • Action potential phases, causes/components
  • Synaptic transmission
    • EPSPs, IPSPs
  • Synaptic plasticity, LTP, NMDA receptors

Neurochemistry

  • Big Three – Glu, GABA, ACh
  • Neuromodulators – DA, NE, 5-HT
  • Hormones
    • Oxytocin, vasopressin are released from ____.
  • Can we readily measure neurotransmitter levels in the brain?

Evolution and development

  • There is a "mammalian" brain plan (True/False)

Emotion

  • The ____ lobe contains the amygdala
  • Pleasure/reward systems
  • Fear, stress in behavior and brain
    • What's more important to measure, objective stress or perceived stress?

Perception and Action

  • Sensory fibers enter the (dorsal/ventral) spinal cord.
  • Parietal lobe contains ____ cortex.
  • Photoreceptor cells release more neurotransmitter in (darkness/light)
  • Can't see reddish-green because long ("red") and medium ("green") cones ____

  • Areas of cortex devoted to moving fingers, tongue are (large/small)
  • Most retinal ganglion cells project to the ____.
  • Sound direction is signaled by ____.
  • Minty flavors taste `cool' because…
  • Topographic maps: somatosensation, audition, vision
  • Perceiving what vs. where: audition, vision
  • Functional segregation: by receptor, type of info
  • Receptive fields

Memory

  • Long-term Potentiation (LTP) involves neuron A's connection to neuron B ____
  • NMDA receptor opens when sending cell ____ and receiving cell ____.
  • Amnesia
    • ____ is impaired; ____ is spared.
  • NMDA receptors and Hebbian learning
  • Hippocampus size and memory demands