Definitions (A-M)

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A

Acetylcholine

Acetyl group

Action potential

Acute tryptophan depletion

Adrenal cortex

Adrenal gland

Adrenaline ( Epinephrine )

Amnesia

Amygdala

Antagonist

Anterograde amnesia

Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Anti saccade ability

Articular suppression

Attention demanding tasks

Autonoetic awareness

Autonomic nervous system

Axon

Axon terminal

B

BDNF

BDNF TrkB signalling pathway

Brain network

Brainstem

Broca’s area

C

Catecholamine

Cation

Causal relation

CA1

CA3

Central nervous system

Cerebellum

Change blindness

Chunking

Cingulate gyrus

Circadian rhythm

Cornu Ammoni

Cortex

Consistency bias

Cortical substrate

Corticosteroid

Cortisol

Creative imagination scale

CRF/CRH

Cue overload

D

Declarative memory

Dendrite

Dentate gyrus

Depolarisation

Diencephalon

Dissociation

Dissociation experiences scale

DNA

DNA methylation

Dorsal raphe

Downstream signalling

E

Emotional response ( conditioning)

Endocannabinoid

Endogenous

Ensemble inhibition

Entorhinal cortex

Epigenetic

Episodic memory

Epithalamus

Essential amino acid

F

False fame effect

False recognition effect

Fight or flight reaction

Flashbulb memory

Fluid intelligence

Forebrain

Frontal lobe

G

GABA

Glutamate

GPCR

G-protein

Granule cell

Grey matter

Gyrus

H

Habituation

Habenular nucleus

Hippocampus

Hippocampal formation

Histone

Hormone

HPA axis

Hyperpolarisation

Hypothalamus

I

Inferential relation

Interference

Interneuron

Ion channel

Ionotropic receptor

J

K

Korsakoff’s amnesia

L

Left inferior frontal gyrus

Left parietal lobe

Limbic system

Lobe

Long term depression ( LTD )

Long term memory

Long term potentiation ( LTP )

M

Medial temporal lobe

Melatonin

Membrane potential

Memory consolidation

Mental exertion

Mental time travel

Metabotropic receptor

Metaplasticity

Monoamine

Mossy fiber projection

Morphogenesis

Motor neuron

mRNA

Multimodal

Myelin