PSY 351 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vagus Nerve, Baroreceptor, Classical Conditioning

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 351
• Professor: paulmyere

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Know how the supr a chiasmatic nucleus influences the sleep/wake flip flop: know the general theory regarding how the scn ticks. Know the stages of sleep, the different kinds of eeg waves, and what synchrony/ desync h rony means 4. Know the role of adenosine in producing sleepiness. Know the brain areas that contain these neurotransmitters: basal forebrain, dor sal raphe, locus coeruleus : know the sleep flip-flop system, the interaction between the vlpoa and the arousal systems. Know how orexin neurons in the lh influence the flip-flop, and how they neurons are influenced by environmental events 8. Know the rem sleep flip-flop, including the role of the ventrolateral pag , the sublaterodorsal nucleus (sld) 9. Know how emotional stimuli might induce a cataplectic attack in someone with narcolepsy , and the neuropeptide that may be involved. Know how steroid hormones alter gene expression 12.