You are on page 1of 4

Final exam study guide #1

You should know the meaning or significance for neuroscience of the following:

1. Secondary somatosensory cortex 45. Olfactory bulb


2. Auditory processing & anesthesia 46. Avicenna
3. Meyer-Overton correlation 47. Plague doctor mask
4. Lipid solubility 48. Olfactory epithelium
5. Locked-in syndrome 49. Olfactory glomeruli
6. Minimally conscious state 50. Mitral cells
7. Vegetative state 51. Olfactory tract
8. Brain dead 52. Chemotopic map
9. Glasgow coma scale 53. Olfactory nerve
10. Imagined tennis 54. Amygdala
11. Rom Houben 55. Proust phenomenon
12. Facilitated communication 56. Microsmatic myth
13. Change blindness 57. Smelling handshakes
14. Posterior parietal+prefrontal cx 58. Endogenous opioids
15. Claustrum 59. Dopamine and natural rewards
16. Threshold metabolic index 60. Anandamide
17. Components of awareness 61. Dopamine pathways
18. Readiness potential 62. The reward circuit
19. Polygenic risk 63. Addiction
20. Modifiable risk factor 64. Route of administration
21. Tau & amyloid-β 65. 4 C’s of addiction
22. Trigger & bullet theory 66. Tolerance
23. Cognitive/brain/cerebral reserve 67. Dependence
24. Donepezil 68. Metabolic tolerance
25. Nun study 69. Functional tolerance
26. Terri Schiavo 70. Classical/Pavlovian conditioning
27. Mysterians 71. Sensitization
28. Dementia 72. Withdrawal/abstinence symptoms
29. Vascular dementia 73. Self-administration model
30. CJD 74. Conditioned place preference
31. CTE 75. Schizophrenia diagnosis
32. Familial vs sporadic 76. Delusions
33. Mild cognitive impairment 77. Hallucinations
34. α-synuclein 78. Schizophrenia prevalence
35. Frontotemporal dementia 79. Positive symptoms
36. Flavour equation 80. Negative symptoms
37. Filiform papillae 81. Disorganized symptoms
38. Taste bud 82. DSM-5
39. Transduction 83. Anhedonia
40. Umami 84. Loose associations
41. Basic tastes 85. Heritability
42. Insular cortex/insula 86. Pruning hypothesis
43. Capsaicin 87. Dopamine hypothesis
44. Odours & ventricles 88. Chlorpromazine
89. Phenothiazine 137. Eugenics
90. Laborit 138. Bias in IQ tests
91. Delay Deniker & Harl 139. J. Phillipe Rushton
92. Dopamine D2 receptor 140. Socioeconomic status
93. Mesolimbic pathway 141. Isotropic fractionation
94. Olanzapine 142. Aphasia
95. Resperidone 143. Anomia
96. Pingelap Atoll 144. Apraxia
97. Achromatopsia 145. Agnosia
98. Fovia 146. Anosognosia
99. Blind spot 147. Prosopagnosia
100. Retina 148. Oliver Sacks
101. Optic nerve 149. Right & left visual field
102. Retinal ganglion cell 150. Primary visual cortex
103. Rods and cones 151. V1
104. Sensitivity vs acuity 152. Area 17
105. Purkinje effect 153. Posterior parietal cortex
106. Opsins 154. Inferotemporal cortex
107. Rhodopsin 155. Dorsal and ventral visual streams
108. Photopsin 156. Contralateral neglect
109. Tetrachromasy 157. Simultaneous extinction
110. Trichromasy 158. Imaginal neglect
111. Dichromasy 159. Heavy metals
112. Monochromasy 160. Mad Hatter
113. X-linked mutation 161. Mercurial poisoning
114. Optic chasm 162. Minimata disease
115. Optic nerve/tract 163. Grassy Narrows
116. Lateral genicule nucleus 164. Blood-brain barrier
117. Primary visual cortex/V1 165. Bioaccumulation
118. Retinotopic map 166. Biomagnification
119. Blobs - interblobs 167. Lead poisoning
120. V4 168. Flint Michigan
121. MT 169. Old water pipes
122. Acquired achromatopsia 170. Sexual dimorphism
123. HM 171. Sex and gender
124. Henry Molaison 172. Kleinfelter’s syndrome
125. Brenda Milner 173. TDF
126. Retrograde amnesia 174. SRY
127. Anterograde amnesia 175. Dihydrotestosterone
128. Medial temporal amnesia 176. Anti-mullerian substance
129. Hippocampus 177. Androgen insensitivity syndrome
130. William Scoville 178. 5-α-reductase
131. Explicit memory 179. Organizational vs activational
132. Implicit memory 180. SDN-POA
133. Episodic memory 181. INAH3
134. Semantic memory 182. Androgenization
135. Patient KC 183. Childhood play
136. Francis Galton 184. Sex & Autism spectrum disorder
185. Sex & ADHD 232. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
186. Sex & Alzheimer’s disease 233. Working memory
187. Spatial localization 234. Card-sorting
188. Spatial framework 235. Phineas Gage
189. Sex & gender mosaic 236. Thinking fast and slow
190. Gender bias in science 237. Functional asymmetry
191. Extended phenotype 238. transdisciplinary
192. T. gondii 239. prion
193. Toxoplasmosis 240. scholasticism vs empiricism
194. Snail antennae 241. Galileo
195. Ants, cats 242. Monism vs dualism
196. Amygdala 243. Characteristics of science as a
197. Sleeping sickness method
198. Tse tse fly 244. Rachel Stark
199. Sleeping sickness 245. Megan Okuma
200. Circadian rhythm 246. Sylvain Boutros
201. Suprachiasmatic nucleus 247. David Cuesta
202. CT scan 248. Rob Sutherland’s baby goat
203. MRI 249. Other ways of knowing
204. fMRI 250. Parsimony
205. electron microscope 251. NOMA
206. structural imaging 252. Critiques of science
207. functional imaging 253. Pseudoscience
208. EEG 254. Dunning-Kruger Effect
209. ERP 255. Neurotree
210. MEG 256. John the Baptist
211. PET 257. Three elements of Darwin’s
212. Angelo Mosso theory of evolution
213. Rostral 258. Novelty and relevance of
214. Caudal Darwin’s basic idea
215. Clostridium botulinum 259. Functional design
216. Botox 260. Phrenology
217. Acetylcholine 261. Gall & Spurzheim
218. Muscarinic 262. Localization of function
219. Nicotinic 263. Brain damaged patients
220. Acetylcholinersteras 264. Endocranial cast
221. Enzyme 265. Broca, Wernicke, Alzheimer,
222. Vesicle Korsakoff
223. neuroransmitter release 266. Neuron
224. Otto Loewi 267. Cell
225. Quantal release 268. Neuron doctrine
226. Neurotransmitter inactivation 269. Golgi
227. Direct & indirect synaptic 270. Ramon y Cajal
transmission 271. Dynamic polarization
228. Lobes of the cerebral cortex 272. Dendrite, soma, axon, terminal
229. Brodmann’s areas 273. Reticularists
230. Cytoarchitectonics 274. Cellular connection
231. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex 275. Von Economo neurons
276. Galvani & frog legs 283. Ion channel inactivation
277. Cell membrane 284. Refractory period
278. Ion channel 285. All-or-nothing
279. Hodgkin & Huxley 286. Activation threshold
280. Squid 287. Myelination
281. Concentration and electrical 288. Saltatory conduction
gradient 289. Nodes of Ranvier
282. Sodium-potassium pump 290. Multiple sclerosis

You might also like