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| study of Heritable changes in gene expression or phenotype caused by the ENVIRONMENT |
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| mechanism in which methyl groups bind onto cytosine and therefore PREVENT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS FROM TURNING ON GENE EXPRESSION; influenced by environment (diet sun pollutants hormones) |
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assoc/ mood, unger, sleep arousal.
malfunction: depression |
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muscle action, learning, memory
malfunction: alzheimer's |
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movement, learning, attention, emotion
malfunction: schizophrenia, parkinson's |
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alertness and arousal
malfunction: depressed mood |
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inhibitory neurotransmitter
malfunction: seizures, tremors, insomnia |
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excitatory neurotransmitter
malfunction: migraines, seizures |
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includes:
medulla-heartbeat and breathing
thalamus-info from senses (first round) |
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| coordinates movement/balance |
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| speaking, muscle movement, plans, judgments |
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basal ganglia-initiation of movements and balance. reward and reinforcement, addictive behaviors
limbic system includes: hippocampus, amygdala,hypothalamus |
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| aggression, fear, social behavior, recognizing emotional facial expressions |
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| regulate thirst, hunger, body temp, influences experience of pleasure and rewards |
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language expression; directs muscle movement involved in speech.
case study: could barely talk |
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controls language reception and comprehension. does NOT affect muscles
case study: implicit memory in tact, must speak slow to her, can't understand or get right words out |
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| set of glands that secrete hormones into blooodstream |
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| left frontal lobe destroyed - diff planning, personality, judgment, inhibition, executive funciton |
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| removed hippocampus. consequence is anterograde amnesia (cannot form new memories) |
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| urbach-wiethe disease, lesions to amygdala. result: no fear to scary stimuli/events |
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prosopagnosia - cant recognize faces
fusiformgyrus-part of brain affected |
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records electrical activity along scalp
high temporal resolution
low spatial resolution (part of brain)
inexpensive
used for epilepsy |
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nuclear imaging produces 3d image of functional processes in body
invasive-radioactive material acts as tracer to go through vein and into body
shows how your organs/tissues working
good for tracking post seizures and cancer |
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fMRI measures signal changes in brain due to changes in neural activity
low temporal resolution
high sptatial resolution |
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1. orbitofrontal cortex-more rat uses this part of brain, more it develops
2. mid-brain and lower forebrain - motivation to engage in social behaviors
3. cortex: learning memory-fine tunes play fighting from experience |
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executive functions (inhibition, initiate movement, planning)
rats with damage to OFC and those deprived of physical play demonstrate similar social deficits
both fail to learn from social experiences and modify behaviors |
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