Exam 5: Evolving Brains: Neural Development, Neuroplasticity, and Recovery of Function

Increased maternal attention during the first week of a rat pup's life modified a specific hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter by altering DNA methylation.

Certain glial cells known as ___________ will help developing neurons to their destinations.

The __________ regulates somatosensory input necessary for choreographing specific play responses.

Once stem cells have differentiated into progenitor cells ______________.

The ability of humans to exert cognitive control to override the impulse to orient toward new visual stimuli is referred to as __________.

_______ has pointed out that one distinctive feature of the human brain is its large size, despite it not being the largest mammalian brain.

The evolution and development of different species' brains has been a conservative process.

The two discrete areas of the adult mouse brain exhibiting adult neurogenesis are the ______ and ____.

It may take as long as ________ for a new neuron to reach their final mature physical form within hippocampal neural circuitry.

The conservative nature of brain and body evolution was reinforced by the drawings of the German zoologist ___________.

The neurofibrillary tangles found in brains diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease consist of what?

What finding best describes the key differences between the brachyuric (BTBR) and normal mouse strain that suggests it might not be a useful animal model to understand autism spectrum disorder (ASD)?

Restructuring of the neuron's existing cytoskeleton occurs in response to various neural adaptations that accompany ________.

It may take as long as ________ for a new neuron to become synaptically integrated into mature hippocampal neural circuitry.

________ promotes the maturation of neurons has also been implicated in disorders such as depression.

Important environmental events such as stressful experiences leave an imprint that is passed on to subsequent generations along with the DNA code.

What observation suggests why the human brain seems to have the have the most advanced cognitive abilities compared to other mammals?

Compared to adults, the adolescent brain may have a ________ ventral striatum and ________ prefrontal cortex and amygdala?

________ is a procedure where animals are surgically bound so that the blood supply is shared between them.

________ refers to a mechanism in which genes can be modified by the addition of a methyl chemical compound to the cytosine nucleotide base in DNA.