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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. Sits just above the hindbrain - contains cranial nerves - parts of the reticular formation -important relay stations for sensory information and the substantia nigra

2. Extensive research in dreams - said BAH to Freud; proposed the activation-synthesis hypothesis (dreams are nothing more than the product of random electrical impulses)

3. Is everything anterior to the central sulcus

4. Is found between the dura mater and arachnoid mater meninges

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

6. Auditory receptor cells in the cochlea that turn sound vibrations -> neural impulses

7. The viscous substance between cornea and lens

8. Symptom of narcolepsy - irresistible urge to

9. Thymoleptics = relieves mania of bipolar disorder (lithium carbonate - valproic acid - carbamazepine)

10. Olfactory Nerve - smell

11. Increasing effects/effectiveness of a medication due to repeated administration

12. Sleepwalking - sleep talking

13. Is found at the base of the brain - underneath the thalamus (**remember hypo-below)

14. First described by Descartes - a combination of antagonistic muscle movements (e.g. those involved in walking)

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

16. Decreases with age up until age 30 - then begins to increase *(counter intuitive)*

17. Include indolamines (serotonin) and catecholamines (dopamine - norepinephrine and epinephrine)

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

19. Functions as both a hormone and a neurotransmitter in the brain

20. Important to motor system

21. Is generated by photoreceptors that are only sensitive to degrees of brightness; black-and-white vision found in the rods

22. An axon of a neuron in one region of the brain whose terminals form synapses with neurons in another region

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

24. Precursor to GABA (the most inhibitory/regulatory/pervasive neurotransmitter)

25. Neurotransmitter in CNS - hormone in peripheral vascular system; deficiencies > depression - ADD; noradrenergic nuclei = locus coeruleus

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