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Biopsych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Broca’s aphasia | inability to form sentences. Can understand speech. |
| Wernicke’s aphasia | Inability to understand speech |
| Global aphasia | combination of both Wernicke’s and Broca’s |
| alexia | inability to read language, but can write |
| Agraphia | inability to write |
| Apraxia | inability to perform a learned motor skill (e.g. combing your hair). |
| Visual agnosia | inability to recognize objects |
| Prosopagnosia | Inability to recognize familiar faces |
| Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) | Progressive degeneration of the CNS due to repeated head trauma |
| Hindbrain | Cerebellum (voluntary movements, balance), Medulla (reflex regulation, muscle coordination, breathing), Sleep, autonomic functions |
| Midbrain | RAS (sleep/wake, awareness of incoming signals), Center of dopamine production |
| Forebrain | Sensory information received, Control of hunger, thirst, sex, The ability to think, formation of personality |
| Thalamus | relays and integrates sensory information |
| Hypothalamus | regulation of basic biological needs (e.g. hunger, thirst) |
| Limbic system | emotional centers, pleasure centers |
| Occipital | primary visual cortex |
| Parietal | visual integration, dreams, somatosensory cortex (touch) |
| Temporal | Primary auditory cortex |
| Frontal | primary motor cortex, mirror neurons |
| Lesioning | destroying part of the brain to determine the function |
| Electroencephalograph (EEG) | Measures electrical activity |
| Electrodes | Through artificial electrical current, brain is stimulated |
| Imaging | used to provide info on possible injury and/or function of brain |
| Somatic | controls voluntary muscles, connects to sensory receptors |
| Autonomic | controls involuntary muscles, blood vessels, organs. |
| parasympathetic system | conserves energy |
| sympathetic system | releases energy, often in response to emergency situations |
| Acetylcholine (ACh) | muscle movement |
| Dopamine | voluntary movement, reward pathways |
| Norepinephrine | mood and emotion |
| Serotonin | aggression, sleep/wake cycles |
| GABA | anxiety levels |
| pituitary | growth gland |
| Adrenal | “Fight or flight” |
| Thyroid | control metabolism |
| Sex | Males |
| Pancreas | secretes insulin, which regulates glucose prod. |
| Different ideas exist on what it means to be to be mentally abnormal | Deviance,, “Problems in living” that cause labeling to occur (Szaz), Failure to adjust to situations, Inability to function successfully within society |
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