Neuroscience Chapter 16- Motivation and Behavior

Contains cards on motivation and behavior.

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Drive
Feeling that one needs to behave in a specific way (hunger)
Mesocorticolimbic dopamine system
Involved in drive initiation and reduction as an aspect of motivation
Hedonistic
Behavior leads to pleasure, pleasure acts to reinforce behavior, may involve dopamine
Set point
Point of body weight that body eventually reaches, difficult to change
Ventromedial hypothalamus
Reduces food intake
Lateral hypothalamus
Increases food intake
Arcuate nucleus
Produces NPY, AgRP, alpha MSH, and CART
NPY and AgRP
Increases food intake, reduces metabolic rate by activating lateral hypothalamus and inhibiting paraventricular nucleus
Alpha MSH and CART
Decreases food intake, increases metabolic rate by inhibiting lateral hypothalamus and activating paraventricular nucleus/sympathetic nervous system
Ghrelin
Activates NPY and AgRP neurons during hunger to increase food intake
Non-hunger reasons to eat
Habit, boredom, social situations
Satiety
Stop eating
Cholecsytokinin
Released from small intestine during a mealEat less food
Gastric distention
Stomach expands Vagus nerve to nucleus of solitary tract then to hypothalamus Terminate drive to eat
Insulin
Released from pancreas Acts at hypothalamus to terminate drive to eatReleased while eating, when thinking of eating, and increase in blood glucose