Deck 7: Essay

Question 1

How are ERPs different from an EEG? How can ERPs be used to examine the link between the brain and behavior?

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Question 2

What is an EEG? What are the features of the brain revealed by an EEG?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What is microdialysis? What does it study?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What are event-related potentials?

Question 5

Describe the differences in patterns of EEG activity when a person is in an awake or excited state compared to a relaxed state with eyes closed.

Question 6

What three tests make use of a hidden platform in a swimming pool to examine memory in rats?

Question 7

How does a CT scan work?

Question 8

What is optogenetics? How is it used to excite and inhibit neurons?

Question 9

What are the differences between an MRI and an fMRI?

Question 10

List three examples of neuropsychological tests.What are they used to examine?

Question 11

What is diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)? What is it used to study?

Question 12

How does brain stimulation work? How is it used to treat Parkinson's disease?

Question 13

How does transcranial magnetic stimulation work? What does it study?

Question 14

What is a magnetoencephalogram (MEG)? How is it similar to an electroencephalogram and event-related potentials?

Question 15

What is near-infrared spectroscopy? Why is it useful?

Question 16

How does cerebral voltammetry work?

Question 17

What is a stereotaxic apparatus? What is it used for?

Question 18

Differentiate extracellular from intracellular recording.

Question 19

What is a PET scan? What are its advantages over other imaging methods?

Question 20

How does an MRI work?

Question 21

Give an example of an animal model for a human neurological disease.How are animal models useful for understanding neurological diseases?

Question 22

What are spatial and temporal resolutions? Why are these concepts important for brain imaging?

Question 23

Describe epigenetics.