Exam # 2 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 4Exam 2 Study Guide (Chapters 5-8)Psych 3711.001: Brain and Behavior Exam 2 will cover the material from lecture and from Chapters 5-8 from Kolb and Whishaw. The exam will be comprised of multiple choice and short-answer questions. You may also be given extra credit questions in a different format than those that comprise the actual exam (e.g., essay). Lecture 1: Chapter 5 – Synapses and Neurotransmitter Systems (February 13)- Synapses o Know the parts of a synapse o What do the terms presynaptic and postsynaptic mean?o Know the different types of synaptic connections (e.g., axoaxonic, axosomatic, etc.).o What are Type I and Type II synapses? (be able to compare and contrast them) Which type is excitatory and which is inhibitory?o What is the detailed neural basis of habituation and sensitization?o What is plasticity?- Know the steps involved in chemical transmission o Synthesis – How do neurotransmitters come to be in the axon terminal?o Release – what processes are involved in the release of neurotransmitters? Know how calcium and calmodulin are involved What effect does the arrival of an action potential have on the release of transmitter vesicles?o Action – transmitter binding to ionotropic or metabotropic receptors o Inactivation – In what ways can inactivation occur?- Neurotransmitters o What are the criteria for a substance to be classified as a neurotransmitter?o What are small-molecule transmitters (e.g., acetylcholine)?o Glutamate and GABAo Biological amines (e.g., dopamine)o Neuropeptides and Gases- Know the difference between Ionotropic and Metabotropic receptors. o What is a second messenger? o What is a first messenger? o What is an autoreceptor? Psy 3711 1st Edition- Be able to list and describe the activating/ascending neurotransmitter systems in the CNS, and be able to give an example function for each (e.g., dopamine and motor control).o Cholinergic o Dopaminergic o Noradrenergico SerotonergicLecture 2: Chapter 6 – Psychopharmacology (February 18)- How is a drug’s route of administration related to the concept of “barriers”?- How is a drug’s route of administration related to its dose, efficacy, and safety?- What structures make up the blood-brain barrier? - How does the blood brain barrier differ from the capillary system in the rest of the body?- Why is active transport an important mechanism for supplying glucose and oxygen to the brain?- Which class of drugs acts on the GABAA receptor? What effect does this have on overall CNS function? - Define the drug effects tolerance and sensitization - What are the different types of tolerance?- List two DA agonists and one DA antagonist and their specific mechanisms of action- What are the mechanisms by which cocaine and amphetamine affect dopamine levels?- Explain the DA hypothesis of schizophrenia and provide different two pieces of evidence for it- How do MAOIs and SSRIs affect serotonin levels? (what are their specific mechanisms?)- Name one of the two competitive inhibitors of opioids discussed in class and the text. What mechanism makes them effective for treating morphine overdoses?- Define substance abuse and dependence- What brain structures are involved in the fast and slow acting stress responses, and whatstructure is thought to play a role in turning off the stress response?Lecture 3: Chapter 7 – Neuroscience Methods (February 20)- What method did Karl Lashley use to study memory? What did he conclude from his work?- What was the important discovery made by Scoville and Milner? How did that discovery come about?- What is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and how does it work?- What do EEG and MEG measure? How are they alike and how are they different?- What is involved in measuring event-related potentials? - How does optogenetics work?- How does magnetic resonance imaging work?- What signal changes are measured by fMRI? How are those signals thought to relate to the activity of individual neurons?- How does Positron Emission Tomography (PET) work? - What do the concepts of spatial and temporal resolution in neuroimaging refer to?Lecture 4: Chapter 8 – Brain and Cognitive Development (February 23)- What is the role of the neural tube in brain development?- What is the relationship between stem cells, progenitor cells, and neuroblasts and glioblasts?- What is the subventricular zone?- What are radial glial cells and what stage of brain development are they most associatedwith?- Be able to correctly order the different processes involved in brain development: neurogenesis, migration, maturation, and myelogenesis- What are the main processes associated with neural maturation?- Define synaptic pruning and apoptosis. How do they relate to cognitive development?- How does synaptic pruning relate to neurotrophic factors and apoptosis?- What is unique about the time course of frontal lobe development?- What are critical
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