BIOB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prosocial Behavior, Distant Relatives, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Recelling learning how to ride a bike. Body remembers or knows how to ride a bike. Finger remember or know how to dial that phone number. A mice taught to fear a certain smell passes this information to their children through their sperm. Instincts and inherited behaviors represent a kind of learning and memory that help us surive: Prosocial behavior: conduct intended to help or benefit other people. Includes sharing, caring, comforting, cooperating, helping, sympathizing, and performing. Altruistic behavior: intrinsically motivated conduct intended to help others without expectation of acknowledgement or reward. Fear avoidance model of chronic stress mastery, anxiety, and depression. 3 major stages: obtaining mastery, if fail anxiety is activated, lastly hyperactivity replaced with passivity and depression. Na (n. ambiguus = ventral vagus = newer) New ventral motor nucleus ambiguus (na) myelinated. When diseased newer structures are the first to fail. When stressed newer structures and their associated behavioral strategies are the first to fail.