PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Axoplasmic Transport, Morris Water Navigation Task, Encephalomyelitis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 370
• Professor: Janet L Menard

Document Summary

Diseases caused by specific types of brain damage that are not result of direct trauma. Any disorder where seizures recur spontaneously: seizures- abnormal synchronous firing of neurons. Associated with impaired function at inhibitory synapses: breakdown in inhibitory communications between neurons resulting in their overexcitation. Physical symptoms of seizure- convulsions, loss of consciousness: convulsions- motor seizures involving tremors (clonic) and rigidity (tonic) Non-physical symptoms- change in thought, mood, and behaviour, epileptic auras: epileptic aura- a bad smell, specific thought, feeling of familiarity, hallucination, or tightness in chest. Partial seizure- abnormal activity in one side of brain. Generalized seizure- abnormal activity in both sides of brain. Simple- consciousness not impaired: symptoms vary according to site of epileptic. Absence (petit mal) focus: symptoms may be motor, somatosensory, autonomic, and/ or psychic, characterized by a 3 spikes/ second waveform, common in children- mistaken as children who da(cid:455)drea(cid:373) a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t pa(cid:455) atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374)