PSYC-1105EL Lecture 4: Intro to Psych 1105EL - Biopsychology
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Ethanol is the worst chemical you could put into your body (alcohol) Brain is the source of all your experiences. The oldest ancestor you can trace back to. Spinal cord is roughly the size of a thumb nail. Nodes of ranvier : gaps between axons, carry the signal. Action potential: when electricity flows through a neuron. Facial recognition, wouldn"t know parents from a stranger. One neuron connected to another neuron, creating an exon and building dendrite is a memory. Lesions can produce colors, stars hallucinations of visual experiences. Lesions c an produce loss of discrimination, neglect, phantom limb. Frontal lobe, temporal lobe, basically the entire cortex. You speak non sense, there is not sense to the speech. Some peoples aggressive behaviours occur because this area does not work for them. In addition to sensory/motor and basic life supports systems the bs is associated with consciousness, feeding, sleeping and general arousal. All information is shot up to the brain through this.