Exam 5: Hormones, Appetite, and Emotions in Neuroscience

An instruments that measures several emotional responses controlled by the ANS:

-------is the oldest areas of the cerebral cortex, originally devoted to smell

_______________________sense a decreased blood volume, and signal to area postrema and nucleus tractus solitarius as well.

--------------is a hypersexed behaviour resulted from bilateral removal of the temporal lobes

The _______________is a key hypothalamic nucleus in the regulation of appetite.

______________is produced by adipose tissue to signal fat storage reserves in the body, and mediates long-term appetitive controls,

Damage to the lateral hypothalamus may lead to a condition known as ______________.

Lesioning of the __________________reduces bodyweight.

Excessive thirst, known as polydipsia, along with excessive urination, known as polyuria, may be an indication of ___________.

The principle of--------------action states that the cortex acts as a whole in learning.

The ______________ postulates that certain ethnic groups may be more prone to obesity in an equivalent environment.

--------suggested a circuit from the entorbinal cortex to the hippocampus, then to hypothalamus via the fornix, from there to the anterior thalamus, and finally to the cingulated gyrus involved in emotional experience.

------------------- is the tendency to eat in response to negative emotions.

Feeding center is a group of cells in the _______________that when stimulated cause a sensation of hunger.

Emotion was a conscious state that resulted from sensed emotional behaviour and visceral reaction:

Cortical ablation effects on learning and retention was studies by--------------

________________also determine food intake in the long-term and are important in maintaining energy balance over a nutritionally significant interval.

A chronic lack of nutritious food can cause various illnesses, and will eventually lead to ______________.

The part of the brain that interacts most importantly with the sex hormones in the regulation of sexual behaviour is the

Russek first proposed the ____________as a site where changes in metabolism are detected to control feeding behavior,