PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neuropsychology, Hindbrain, Pituitary Gland

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Structural neuroimaging techniques use advanced technology to create images of the living, healthy brain. Computerized axial tomography (ct or cat) scan. Funcional brain imaging techniques allow us to watch the brain in acion. Glia cells that help support neurons. Oligodendroglia provide myelin to speed up transmission of neurons. Microglia clean up dead cells and prevents infecion in the brain. Neurons vary in size and shape, depending on their locaion and funcion. Motor: a nerve cell forming part of a pathway along which impulses pass from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland. Sensory: neuron conducing impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord. Interneuron: nerve cell found enirely within the central nervous system that acts as link between sensory neurons and motor neurons. Cell body contains nucleus, which provides energy for the neuron (c) Dendrites receive messages from other neurons (b) Axon carries informaion away from the cell body (d)