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Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

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Introduction to Behavioral NeuroscienceKey Terms

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18.1 Memory is Classified Based on Time Course and Type of Information Stored

long-term memory, short-term memory, working memory, consolidation, recall, reconsolidation, anterograde amnesia, procedural memory, declarative memory, episodic memory, basal ganglia, retrograde amnesia, infantile amnesia, Alzheimer’s disease, seizure disorders, Korsakoff’s syndrome, mild cognitive impairment, amyloid fibrils, neurofibrillary tangles, ApoE4, familial, sporadic, interictal epileptiform discharges, Dravet syndrome, Morris water maze, Barnes maze

18.2 Implicit Memories: Associative vs. Nonassociative Learning

Habituation, sensitization, Aplysia, classical conditioning, unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, conditioned response, engram, amygdala, hippocampus, operant conditioning, positive/negative reinforcement, punishment

18.3 Explicit Memories: Episodic and Semantic Memories

Food caching, place cells, grid cells, head direction cells, speed cells, border cells, hippocampal theta rhythm, time cells

18.4 Synaptic Mechanisms of Long-Term Memory

long-term potentiation, long-term depression, trisynaptic loop, perforant pathway, mossy fiber pathway, Schaffer collateral pathway, field/population EPSP, homosynaptic plasticity, associative plasticity, depotentiation, NDMA receptor, AMPA receptor, CAMKII, coincidence detector, silent synapse
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