Review session notes

Question 1

Structural Brain Imaging

Answer 1

Post-mortem, Histology, CAT/CT, MRI

Question 2

Functional Measures

Answer 2

fMRI EEG PET, Electrophysiology

Question 3

In vivo

Answer 3

inside a living organism

Question 4

In vitro

Answer 4

Not in a living organism

Question 5

Invasive brain imaging procedures

Answer 5

Post mortem, Histology, Electrophysiology

Question 6

non invasive

Answer 6

CAT/CT, MRI, fMRI, EEG, PET

Question 7

EEG

Answer 7

Great Temporal resolution, but don’t have an accurate idea of where the signal is coming from

Sleep Studies

Question 8

FMRI

Answer 8

blood oxygen level, great spacial resolution

Question 9

PET

Answer 9

radioactive glucose, dangerous

Question 10

Cerebellum

Answer 10

Motor functions, equilibrium, postural reflexes, muscle coordination

Question 11

Pons

Answer 11

sleep regulation

Question 12

medulla

Answer 12

brain-spinal cord relay, autonomic functions

Question 12

Substantia Nigra

Answer 12

Part of mid brain

reward, addiction, and motor control

Parkinsons disease

Question 13

Occipital Lobe

Answer 13

visual and spatial processing, visual memory

Question 14

Parietal Lobe

Answer 14

General sensory integration, spatial navigation, attention

Question 15

Temporal Lobe

Answer 15

auditory information, associated learning, explicit memory

Question 16

Frontal lobe

Answer 16

decision making, planning, analytical thinking, executive processing

Question 17

Corpus Callosum

Answer 17

connects the left and right hemispheres

Question 18

Thalamus

Answer 18

sensory relay

Question 19

Amygdala

Answer 19

emotion regulation, involved in negative feelings, fear association

Question 20

Cingulate Gyrus

Answer 20

integration of visceral, attentional, and emotional info

Question 21

Hippocampus

Answer 21

coordinates the consolidation of new memories

Question 22

Basal ganglia

Answer 22

Smoothly switching from one behavior/thought/emotion to another

Question 23

Consolidation

Answer 23

Stabilizing a fresh memory after it has been formed

systems and synaptic consolidation

Question 24

Reconsolidation

Answer 24

When you retrieve a stored memory, it is briefly unstable again or subject to change and must be restabilized

Question 25

Slow-Wave Sleep

Answer 25

also called deep sleep of delta wave sleep systems consolidation

Question 26

Perceptual Networks

Answer 26

respond to how things look visual cortex sharp release from adaptation

Question 27

conceptual network

Answer 27

located in frontal lobes and some temporal regions responding to what things mean gradual release from adaptation