Intro To Neuro Ch 1

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Dualism

Back 1

Belief that there exists both the physical and nonphysical (or outside the realm of science)

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Monism

Back 2

Belief that mind is the only physical phenomenon produced by workings of nervous system

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Bottom up reductionism

Back 3

Higher level functions of behavior can be reduced to outcome operating at a lower level

Hint 3

"My neurons made me do it"

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Top down causation

Back 4

Mental activity creates top-down influences on lower level neurophysiological phenomenon that supports mental activities

Hint 4

Placebo effect- feel better before drug in blood stream

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Generalization (induction)

Back 5

General conclusion based on many observations of similar phenomenon

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Reduction (deduction)

Back 6

Explaining complex phenomenon in terms of its smaller components

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What are three monistic themes?

Back 7

1) human consciousness

2) history of behavioral neuroscience

3)

Hint 7

Walking through obstacles even though one cannot see them, more sophisticated sense with lack of one system

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Consciousness

Back 8

Awareness of and ability to communicate about ones thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings

Hint 8

Get this on purpose so that seizure doesn't travel to the other side

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Blindsight

Back 9

Behavior can be guided by sensory info of which we are unaware of

Hint 9

Shave half of face

Draw numbers on half of clock

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Split brain

Back 10

Elect to have corpus collosum cut in half so that some functions of the brain are lateralized (like language only on left side)

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Unilateral neglect

Back 11

Damage to the parietal cortex, typically on the right side, can cause patients to ignore feeling or seeing things on their left side -usually from a stroke

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Contralateral

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relating to or denoting the side of the body opposite to that on which a particular structure or condition occurs

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Left is in control of the right side and vice Versa, in all except olfaction (taste)

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Ipsilateral

Back 13

belonging to or occurring on the same side of the body.

Hint 13

Same side like olfaction (&taste)

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Hippocrates

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First to speculate that the brain was the seat of thought and emotion

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Oath: do no harm

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Descartes

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The first to notice that some movements were automatic and involuntary response to a stimulus (reflexes) first to suggest a connection between the physical body and non-physical mind

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Galvani

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The first to discover that electrical stimulation could cause a frogs leg to contract even when detached from the rest of the body

Hint 16

Luigi is a green Mario cart frog

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Muller

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Established that all nerves carry the same basic message which is an electrical impulse

Hint 17

Electricity carries messages

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Fritsch & Hitzig

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Stimulated a dogs brain and observed muscle contractions on the opposite side of the body

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Place in brain in dog to move Contralateral limb

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Flourens

Back 19

Removed various parts of the brain to infer what part of the brain did, like experimental ablation (removal)

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Broca

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Discovered brain regions involved in speech from patient "tan" --this area is production/articulation of speech

Hint 20

trouble here is trouble with your boca

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Darwin

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Established natural selection and functionalism

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Neoteny

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Is prolonged process of maturation that allows for the development of larger brains

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At what age does the brain develop?

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Late adolescents and fully at 25