PHGY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Code Rate, Rosemary Kennedy, Sensory Cortex
12 Jan 2018
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Burkhart 1800 late ran tests with psychiatric patients with mental illness, Drilled holes in their head & noticed: some patients got better, some patients died. Thought maybe a part of the brain was responsible for mental illness so they started to pursue front lobotomies. 1930"s: for severely mentally ill patients, lesions in front cortex dr. moniz: won nobel prize. Cure: taking away any motion or drive because the frontal cortex was responsible for feelings and put them into a vegetative state. You can go above the eyes now; less invasive. 25 women in one day articles it was taking structure, function the wrong way; took their drive away vegetative state. Human genome: has 3. 2 billion base pairs, 8000,000,000 bytes, can take dna sequence and on computer and find disease to find prediction. Calculation on how much information that would be that file would be. Best method to study the brain or a neuron is via single neuron electrophysiology.
