38. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical treatment for Parkinson’s disease that involves implanting electrodes in specific brain regions and connecting them to a device that sends electrical pulses to modulate brain activity and reduce motor symptoms like tremors and rigidity.

22. [Select all that apply]There are several theories that try to explain why we age:

26. _________ memory performance is mainly thought to decline from middle age onwards.

10. What is a critical period in development?

14. These brain areas are activated during face and body perception (Select all that apply):

23. As the brain ages, it undergoes these structural and functional changes: Grey Matter typically increases in volume with age. White matter increases from age 19-40, but then declines. . The overall brain volume begins to shrink in the 30s and 40s, with the rate increasing around age 60.

41. Gene therapy has been successfully shown to be a potential treatment for epilepsy.

32. Accumulation of beta amyloid correlate with the appearance of cognitive symptoms.

35. HD is characterised by failure of the dopaminergic circuitry because of the loss of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc).

39. These are the brain areas that are mainly affected during HD: