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What is memory for facts
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Semantic
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Memory can be broadly divided into what?
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It can be broadly divided into explicit, implicit and emotional. Or Declarative, Procedural, and Emotional
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The famous patient who has been studied to determine the involvement in memory is named
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H.M.
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Bilateral hippocampal damage is associated with severe amnesia but
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spared implicit memory
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The uncinate fasciculus connects what to what?
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anterior temporal cortex, and the inferior and orbital frontal coretex
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Damage to the uncinate fasciculus is associated with what?
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picture and object naming
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Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome is a reaction to what, and can result from prolonged alcohol use
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thiamine deficiency
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What is apoptosis?
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programmed cell death
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Due to a link between the 21st Chromosome and what, almost all people with Down's Syndrome develop Alzhiemer's Disease
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Amyloid precursor protein APP
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The what is on of the major routes to the amgdyla and projected to the hypothanlmus
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Striatus Terminus
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The prefrontal cortex receives input from the what nucleus of the thalamus
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dorso-medial
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The amydala seems to be important in processing the emotion of what
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fear
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Damage to the dorsal and lateral part of the prefrontal cortex is associated with impairments in what during the Wisconsin Card Sort
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monitoring
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The dorsal and lateral prefrontal cortex is proposed to be part of a network for what
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spatial working memory
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The hypothalamus coordinated what behaviors
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drive related
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The largest nucleus in the ventral striatum is referred to as the what
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nucleus accumbans
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Pleasurable stimuli cause increased release of dopamine in the what
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ventral striatum
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In general, stimulants lead to what spine density and dendritic complexity, while opiates lead to what spine density and dendritic complexity
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increased, decreased
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The amygdala seems to be important for the establishment of what
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social dominance
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One popular theory of empathy holds that what
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we stimulate actions we perceive
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What are released by neurons to alter the cellular properties of target neurons and the efficacy of their synaptic transmission
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Neuromodulators
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Which of the following is not a major neuromodulator?
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THEY ARE:
acetylcholine, serotonin dopamine, noradrenaline/ nonepinephrine SO don’t pick those |
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Dopaminergic neurons are grouped in the what
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midbrain ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (pars compacta)
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Nicotine binds to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the ventral tegmental area, which leads to increased dopamine in the what and prefrontal cortex
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nucleus accumbans
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Cholinergic neurons are grouped in the what
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basal forebrain (nucleus basilis and septal nuclei) and in the dorsal tegmental area
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In the peripheral nervous system, nicotinic cholinergic receptors act directly at what
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neuromuscular junctions
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Serotonergic neurons are grouped in the what
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brainstem raphe nuclei
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Low systemic what is linked to increased anxiety
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serotonin
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Noradrenergic neurons are grouped in the what
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nuclei of the locus coeruleus
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What is implicated in post-traumatic stress disorder
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Noradrenaline
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