The area of the hypothalamus seems to control the motivation to engage in male
copulatory behavior.
✓ In some species, testosterone is thought to be converted to estradiol, which then masculinizes
the brain. This is called the hypothesis.
✓ The leaky-barrel is a model.
✓ Large, bilateral lesions of the hypothalamus produce hyperphagia and obesity.
agonists reduce food intake in both humans and laboratory animals, but they are no
longer used in the treatment of human obesity because they produce heart disease in some
patients.
✓ The first hormone to meet the criteria of a negative feedback fat signal was not leptin; it was
✓ NMDA receptors respond to the neurotransmitter
✓ There is substantial evidence that the plays a major role memory for spatial location.
✓ The delayed nonmatching-to-sample test is a good measure of long-term object-
recognition memory in both rats and monkeys.
memories are explicit memories for general facts and information
A. medial preotic
B. ventromedial
C. episodic
D. explicit
E. entorhinal
F. hippocampus
G. glutamate
H. cerebellum
I. aromatization
J. set-point
K. settling-point
L. serotonin
M. implicit
N. insulin
O. GABA
P. glucose
Q. lateral
R. dopamine
S. semantic
T. masculinization
