Behavioural Neurosciences (WBBY026-05)

Summary of lecture 5&6 Hut

Learning objectives - Difference between strength and direction of lateralisation - Differences between individual and population biases - Pro’s and cons of lateralisation - Define lateralisation - Negative frequency dependent selection of lateralisation - Chimera’s

Learning objectives - Reproduce the importance of the X, Y chromosome and SRY gene in sex differences - Describe how estradial and testosterone are made - Reproduce the anatomical differences between the male and female brain at the level of the hypothalamus o Differences at the level of nuclei size o Differences at the level of receptor or neurotransmitter expression - Describe how testosterone/ estradiol plays an essential role in sex differences during early development and later stage...

Learning objectives - Reproduce the role of hippocampus in specific learning tasks - Reproduce the differences between Pavlovian Conditioning and Operant Conditioning - Reproduce the role of the hippocampus and amygdala in tone-cued fear and contextual fear conditioning - Reproduce how the role of protein synthesis in the consolidation of contextual fear conditioning was studied - Reproduce the difference between the fear conditioning and active shock avoidance - Reproduce how the object...

Summary about lecture 1&2 from Hut.

Summary about lecture 3&4 from Hut.

Learning objectives - Organization of primitive brains - evolution of “large brains” - relationship between the brain and energy - storage of fat and the brain - our brain is shrinking, but PFC and cerebellum increase - relationship white matter / grey matter - features of neuronal networks - spine density and functionality - spines and mental health - complexity of the brain - most common cause of stroke - 4 central brain systems (ascending systems; modulatory systems) - h...

Complete summary with pictures of the lectures given by Havekes, Hut, van der Zee, and Riedstra.

Summary of the lectures of the first year course of behavioural neuroscience from the study of biology on the back. In it all slides of the lectures are summarized in 1 document the information that was told in the lectures.