PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lateral Hypothalamus, Hypothalamus, Ventromedial Nucleus Of The Hypothalamus
5 Apr 2016
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Functions in a way that maintains the brain. Believed that the brain acts like a thermostat in this way. Hypothalamus: responsible for detecting the need to eat or drink, activates according to behavior. Lateral hypothalamus initiates desire to eat or drink (if destroyed, the desire to eat or drink stops) Ventromedial hypothalamus inhibits the desire to eat or drink (if destroyed, the desire to eat and drink happens) Not a good concept many behaviors, but happen for diferent reasons ex) play aggression vs. hunting aggression. There is a part of the brain that controls aggression called the. Scientists measured how often the monkeys fought, then removed the. Anygdala and found that they weren"t ighting anymore. It was later found that this lack of aggression was due to the monkeys not being able to recognize anything in the environments around them. *more complicated to study because of the sensitivity & assuming honesty.
