TERMS FOR BOOK: NEUROSCIENCE
ACTH
Affective neuroscience
Amygdala—subnuclei
ANS: (PNS and SNS)
Anterior cingulate (divisions)
Apoptosis
Arousal - central and autonomic
Axons
Bioamines (neuromodulators) CAs, (DA, NE, E) and 5HT
Brain development—prenatal and postnatal
Cardiovascular regulatory systems
Cerebellum affective functions
Cerebral cortex (prefrontal, frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal)
CNS – cortical / subcortical
Cognitive neuroscience
Corpus callosum
Cortical - subcortical circuits
Cortical columns
Cortisol
CRF
Critical periods of brain development
Dendrites
Developmental neuroscience
Dopaminergic nuclei (ventral tegmental; substantia nigra; hypothalamic
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)
Dorsal vs ventral streams in cortex
EEG
Endothelial cells
Excitation-inhibition
Experience-dependent brain maturation
Face processing
Fusiform gyrus
Glia—oligodendroglia, astrocytes
Growth factors (BDNF, NGF, EGF)
Hebb’s rule
Hierarchical organization of the brain
Hippocampal nuclei
HPA axis
Hypothalamic nuclei
Insula
Intersubjective neurobiology
Language areas – Wernicke’s, Broca’s, angular gyrus
Left hemisphere
Limbic system
Masked presentations
Medulla oblongata
Mirror neurons
Mitochondria
Neuroimaging: PET; CT; FMRI; SPECT
Neurons
Neurohormones
Neuropeptides
Neurotransmitters—GABA, ACh, glutamate
NMDA receptors
Noradrenergic nuclei—locus ceruleus; medullary
Orbitofrontal (ventromedial) prefrontal cortex: lateral and medial OFC
Oxytocin
Parcellation
Pituitary gland
Psychoneuroimmunology
Right Hemisphere
Serotonergic nuclei
Social neuroscience
Sympatho-adrenal-medullary axis
Synapses – types
Thalamus
Vagal systems—dorsal and ventral; nucleus ambiguous
Vasopressin
Ventral striatum—nucleus accumbens, etc
TERMS FOR BOOK: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Affect dysregulation
Affect tolerance - negative/ positive
Aggression dysregulation—rage
Alexithymia
Allostatic load
Antisocial personality disorder
Arousal – hyperarousal and hypoarousal
Arousal dysregulation – hyperarousal/ hypoarousal
Autistic spectrum disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Conservation withdrawal
Cultural impact on brain development
Defensive projective identification
Defensive reflexes – fight, flight, and freeze
Depersonalization-derealization
Depression/depressive affect neurobiology
Developmental arrest
Developmental psychopathology
Dissociation
Dissociative identity disorders
DSM Axis 1, Axis II
Eating disorders
Exteroception
Fear/terror neurobiology
Heart rate acceleration/deceleration; bradycardia, tachycardia
Hypervigilance
Intergenerational transmission
Interoception
Kindling
Lateralization
Mental health - adaptive/ maladaptive
Narcissistic personality disorder
Pain (emotional/physical)
Priming
Psychopathology
Psychopathogenesis (structure / function models)
Psychosomatic disorder
PTSD
Relational trauma – abuse/neglect
Somatization
Somatoform dissociation
Startle response
Stress coping mechanisms
Stress—acute/chronic
TERMS FOR BOOK: DEVELOPMENTAL
Adaptive capacities of infancy
Affect regulation (interactive and autoregulatory)
Affect synchrony
Amplification processes
Attachment (relationship, behavior, theory)
Attachment categories (secure, insecure)
Caregiver infant dyad
Contingent responsivity
Developmental stages
Disruption repair (interactive repair)
Earned secure attachment
Empathy
Enjoyment-joy
Enriched environment
Exploratory behavior
Face –to-face interaction (mutual gaze)
Gaze aversion
Good-enough caregiver
Implicit learning; implicit relational knowledge
Imprinting
Infant mental health (adaptive/ maladaptive)
Internal working model
Interactive repair (rupture/repair)
Interest-excitement
Intersubjective resonance
Joint attention
Learning – explicit/ implicit
Maternal function
Memory
Negative affect (soothing, calming, arousal reduction)
Nonverbal communication
Play
Paternal function
Positive affect (and play) arousal amplification
Practicing Period
Prenatal/postnatal development
Primary caregiver
Proto conversation
Psychobiological attunement/misattunement
Rapprochement period
Reflective function – mentalization
Regulation theory
Resilience
Reunion episodes
Self (image, stages of, awareness)
Self regulation (interactive regulation vs. autoregulation)
Sensory modalities (olfaction, gustatory, visual, auditory)
Separation – reunion transactions
Shame
Social-emotional development
Social referencing
Still face procedure
Strange Situation
TERMS FOR BOOK: PSYCHOTHERAPY
Affect
Affect regulation—CS vs UCS
Affective processes in psychotherapy
Bodily countertransference
Change process
Clinical intuition
Cognition
Consciousness (reflective and primary)
Containing/holding regulatory function
Countertransference
Defense/coping mechanims
Developmental psychoanalysis
Dynamic unconscious
Enactments
Heightened affective moment
Insight
Interoception
Intersubjectivity
Motivational systems
Nonverbal communication – facial expression; gesture; prosody
Neuropsychoanalysis
Object relations theory
Pathological object relation
Psychoanalysis
Reflective function
Repression/suppression
Right brain processes in therapy
Self psychology theory
Self-object function
Shame
Social cognition
Somatic marker; “gut” feelings
Theory of mind
Therapeutic alliance
Therapeutic empathy
Therapeutic holding
Therapeutic trust, safety
Transference
Unconscious/nonconscious processing