Neuropsychology Exam 4

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What is memory for facts

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Semantic

Front 2

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

Front 3

The famous patient who has been studied to determine the involvement in memory is named

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H.M.

Front 4

Bilateral hippocampal damage is associated with severe amnesia but

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spared implicit memory

Front 5

The uncinate fasciculus connects what to what?

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anterior temporal cortex, and the inferior and orbital frontal coretex

Front 6

Damage to the uncinate fasciculus is associated with what?

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picture and object naming

Front 7

Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome is a reaction to what, and can result from prolonged alcohol use

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thiamine deficiency

Front 8

What is apoptosis?

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programmed cell death

Front 9

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

Front 12

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

Front 14

The dorsal and lateral prefrontal cortex is proposed to be part of a network for what

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spatial working memory

Front 15

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

Front 17

Pleasurable stimuli cause increased release of dopamine in the what

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ventral striatum

Front 18

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

Front 19

The amygdala seems to be important for the establishment of what

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social dominance

Front 20

One popular theory of empathy holds that what

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we stimulate actions we perceive

Front 21

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

Front 23

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