Physiological Psych

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Drugs that act by increasing the accumulation of seratonin and norephinephrine

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Tricyclics

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Fluid filled cavaties

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Ventricles

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Hyperpolarization

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Afterpotential when the negative field of a cell is below its resting potential

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Ligand

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Substance that binds to receptor molecules, such as those at the surface of the cell

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Medial Temporal lobe that's important for memory

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Hippocampus

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Receptor sites on post-synaptic

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Dendritic spines

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Post-synaptic potentials

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Everything after synapse, is a graded response

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Graded Response

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a membrane electrical potential that spreads passively across the cell membrane, decreasing in strength with time and distance

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Receptor cell that converts stimulus to charge in electric potential across it's membrane

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Sensory Transduction

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Sensory Transduction

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Process where a receptor cell converts the energy in a stimulus into a charge in the electric potential across its membrane

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Neurophysiology

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Study of life processes of neurons

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Somatic intervention

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Approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves manipulating body structure or function and looking for resultant changes in behavior

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Behavioral intervention

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An approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves intervening in the behavior of an organism and looking for resultant changes in body structure or function.

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Limbic System

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Group of brain nuclei that innervate each other to form a network, These ones are implicated in memory and emotions.
Fornix, Cingulate Gyus, thalamus, mammilary body, hippocampus, amygdala

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Fornix

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A fiber tract that extends from the hippocampus to the mammilary body

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Cingulate Gyrus

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cortical portion of the limbic system found in the frontal and parietal midline

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Thalamus

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Brain regions that surround third ventricle, deals with relaying sensation, motor skills, spatial sense, memory

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Mammilary body

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memory, at base of brain near fornix.

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Amygdala

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Helps process emotion and memory

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Corpus Collosum

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Main band of axons that connects the two cerebral hemispheres

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Glial Cells

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Nonneural brain cells that provide structural, nutritional, and other types of support to the brain

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Superior/Inferior Colliculus

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Deal with sensory functions
Superior = eye movement, visual information and inferior = auditory

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Caudate Nucleus

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One of the basal ganglia with a long extension/tail, learning and memory

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Putamen

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One of the basal ganglia, regulates movement and learning

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Cerebellum
Primary Motor Cortex

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Movement
Apparent executive region for initiation of movement, primarily the precentral gyrus

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Hyperpolarization

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Increase in membrane potential (the inner surface of the membrane becomes more negative in relation to the outer surface) that is caused by inhibitory neural messages.