PSYC 2000 Chapter : Chapter 2
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Brain cells: neuron: basic unit of nervous system, glial cells, comes from greek word glue , fills gaps between neurons in many ways (facilitate communication, cleaning up) Neurons: the 10: there may be 100 billion neurons in your brain, each neuron has many connections, but there are many glial cells (the 90%) Chapter 2: biological perspective: acetylcholine, serotonin, dopamine: frozen addicts injected by a group of young adults cells in the substantia nigra (midbrain structure, the substantia nigra produces dopamine. Influences mood and regulates food intake, depression: the mix of drugs contained a mistake that led to destruction of. Important to movement and frontal lobe activity, schizophrenia. In early 1980s- designer drug supposed to heroin was: became frozen as a result, the accident led to a breakthrough in the study of parkinson"s, 7 young drug users had developed the symptoms of. Parkinson"s disease: parkinson"s patients treated with l-dopa (a precursor to, parkinson"s patients treated with l-dopa can develop schizophrenia.
