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GRE Psychology: Experimental/natural Science Biology
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GRE Psychology: Experimental/natural Science Biology
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1. Combines input from diverse brain regions; receives sensory information/sends motor impulses

2. The increase in REM sleep seen after a period of REM sleep deprivation

3. Is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in vertebrates; these receptors are ionotropic

4. Research indicates that the expressing of negative emotions is associated with increased immune function; inhibiting negative emotions with decreasing immune function

5. Controls sexual activity; lesions inhibit sexual behavior; stimulation increases aggressive sexual behavior

6. Colored part of the eye

7. Most brain communications are with the opposite side of the body

8. The slowing and eventual cessation of estrous cycles in groups of female animals that are housed together; caused by a pheromone in the animals urine and first observed in mice

9. Focuses light waves on the retina and is held in place by the suspensory ligament; aqueous humor on cornea side; vitreous humor on retina side

10. Involved in the effects of odors/pheromones in reproductive behavior - a nucleus that receives olfactory information from the olfactory bulb and accessory olfactory bulb

11. Is a peptide neurotransmitter and a natural painkiller and antianxiety

12. Completely disactivates the prefrontal cortex (PFC); due to high levels of norepinephrine (NE)

13. In the limbic system - is a fiber bundle - connects hippocampus with stuff (including the mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus)

14. An area that combines input from diverse brain regions

15. There are 12 add more

16. Damage to this are causes clumsiness and loss of balance

17. hormone - secreted by the pituitary gland -signals the adrenal gland to secrete corticosteroid hormones -ACTH is a critical component of the HPA Axis that controls the stress response

18. Symptom of narcolepsy - irresistible urge to

19. If head is rotated - eye movements occur in the same direction

20. Affect multiple receptors; highly preferential to which type of receptor they affect

21. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis -controls stress response

22. Bunch of dopaminergic neurons starting in the ventral tegmental area and ending in prefrontal cortex

23. Those biological considerations which are DISTANT; Evolutionary Psychology - Comparative Psychology - Ethology

24. Is increased in its production by training/experience and therefore - associated with memory

25. Part of a glial cell that wraps around the axon of a neuron - providing insulation that facilitates speed of propagation of action potential