2019-04-09 10:33:56

Emotion, stress, & reward

  • Biological perspectives on (e.g., Plutchik)
  • Acute vs. chronic stressors
  • Nodes in fear processing/stress network
  • Nodes in 'reward' network, and some key neurotransmitters

Depression

  • Monoamine hypothesis
  • Serotonin role
  • Treatments for

Schizophrenia

  • Dopamine hypothesis
  • Glutamate hypothesis
  • Brain abnormalities
  • Symptoms of

Bipolar disorder

  • Treatments for
  • How differs from/similar to depression, schizophrenia

Sensory systems

  • Topographic maps
  • Non-uniform sensitivity
  • Hierarchical processing (and thalamic relay)
  • Functional segregation
  • Myelination, axon diameter & speed

Sensory systems

  • Speed of information processing
  • Primary sensory/motor areas in cortex
  • Receptive field size, cortical size, & sensory acuity

Somatosensation & pain

  • Touch, temperature, pain receptors in skin
  • Pathways to cortex

Action

  • Muscle types
  • How muscles work
    • ACh, Ca++
    • Intrafusal/extrafusal fibers
  • Monosynaptic stretch reflex/myotatic reflex
  • Motor system disorders

Vision

  • The eye as camera
  • Physiologically backwards and anatomically inside-out
  • Color opponency
  • Center-surround receptive fields
  • Projections to the brain