Exam 2: Neuroscience Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology

Whether a segment of DNA is relaxed or condensed-and therefore able or unable to be activated-is influenced by epigenetic ______.

Chemicals that transmit signals from one neuron to another are called ______.

The main advantage of magnetoencephalography (MEG) over electroencephalography (EEG) is that MEG

The study of environmental factors that turn genes on and off and are passed to the next generation is referred to as ______.

______ potentials is another phrase for event-related potentials.

When a person has two copies of the same allele, she or he is said to be ______ for that allele.

Which of these animals' sleep is characterized by putting one half of the brain to sleep while the other half remains awake?

Shannon is studying in her room, concentrating on a passage in her chemistry textbook and solving a few practice problems. Suddenly, she notices how chilly the room is. In Shannon's brain, activity of the ______ network has momentarily interrupted processing in the ______ network.

The ______ pattern of electrical activity in the brain is associated not only with memory performance but also with coordinating emotional information between the limbic areas and the frontal areas of the brain.

The job of a gene is to lay out the process by which a particular protein is made, or to ______ a protein.

Emotions are only processed in the brain.

Cocaine inhibits dopamine from being reclaimed by the neuron that sent it into the synapse. Cocaine therefore increases the amount of dopamine present in the synapse by inhibiting a process called ______.

Harpending and Sobus (1987) suggest that some personality disorders can represent behaviors that were once adaptations. They explicitly cite ______ personality disorder and ______ personality disorder.

From an evolutionary perspective, both psychopathic and histrionic personality disorder reflect adaptive strategies related to ______.

According to the text, "With the increased sophistication of brain imaging technology came the increased ability to view the manner in which various areas of the brain work together." The focus on connections between brain areas implied in this statement MOST immediately brings to mind the brain imaging technique called ______.

The study of genetics began with the work of ______.

Mitochondrial DNA comes from both an organism's father and his mother.

In a method called ______, researchers use an MRI magnet to track the pattern of cortical connections in the brain.

Larissa is often described as "dramatic" or "theatrical." She is always "on" and always wants to be the center of attention. She is extremely emotional and often exaggerates the things that happen to her. Larissa's example BEST illustrates ______ personality disorder.

Maddie receives the brown-eyed allele of the eye color gene from her mother but the blue-eyed allele of the eye color gene from her father. Maddie is ______ for the eye color gene.