PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Acetylcholine, Morphine, Fluoxetine

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Ayca Guler- Edwards

Document Summary

Patient could not speak but could understand everything. There was a lesion on the left side of the brain. Now called broca"s area, it is where speech is produced. Wernicke"s area is related to comprehension of language. Surgeon cut the corpus collosum, that connects both hemisphere. Video ** guy with split brain, verbal and drawings and faces. Left is speech and communication, as well as reasoning. Right is for face recognition and visual abilities. Neurons are the basic units of the nervous system. They operate through electrical impulses and communicate with other neurons through chemical signals. Neurons have different shapes and sizes, but they typically share some common features: Dendrites: branchlike extensions of the neuron that receive information from other neurons. Cell body (soma): main part of the neuron, contains nucleus. This is where information from other neurons is collected and integrated.