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Give an example of tactile communication in animals.

What is meant by the term heterotroph?

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include hallcinations, delusionality, and disorganized speech

Habituation in the sea slug is characterized by _____ onto the gill motor neuron

Infusions of drugs that mimic the activation of _______ receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell can modulate the pleasure of foods

Describe the concept of reward prediction error and the evidence for dopamine neurons encoding this computation. You should describe how the firing activity of these neurons change with learning a CS-US relationship from random reward, to early training, to after learning. How do these neurons respond when reward is withheld after learning? 

Lesions or inactivation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex disrupt extinction

There are places in our brains where we can infuse drugs and increase pleasure, but there are no such places where those same drugs can be infused to decrease pleasure.

Ketamine is currently being heavily investigated as a potential treatment for neuropsychiatric disorders. Ketamine is thought to “reset” synaptic plasticity. Based on what you know, you can assume ketamine is an antagonist to _______

Extinction is the unlearning of a previously acquired relationship between a cue and its outcome