PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cerebral Achromatopsia, Brodmann Area, Frontal Lobe

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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The brain is a highly complex organ we shall never understand. Risk during childbirth only so much brain you can fit through your pelvis --. You will kill you mother if your brain is to big. Central nervous system brain and spinal cord. Rat and rabit brains don"t have gyra smaller brains. Meninges protective layer around brain protects skull from being pierced - cushioning system and distributes blood vessels to diff parts of brains. And serves protective role ridgity and cushioning grey and white matter in brian. Equipotenitality : every little bit of the brain is equal to the other. Which system would help you best outrun a tiger: sympathetic system correct, afferent skeletal pns, afferent atomatic pns, parasympathetic system. Brainstem breathing, maintains blood pressure and alertness. Hypothalamus relgulates homeostasis, controls auonomic pns, control pituary master gland . Amaydala emotional processing system especaiily fear, motivation. Thalamus gateway to cortex, it can be shut when we sleep.