PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hypothalamus, Hypergraphia, Epigastrium
11 Apr 2017
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Prefrontal lobe: abstract reasoning, controls attention, concentration, working memory, allows planning for future, anticipation, self-monitoring/follow rules, modulates inhibition of inappropriate behaviour, thalamus: Relay centre of sensory (exception olfaction) and motor information (gateway to the cortex) Hypothalamus: integrator of nervous system to the endocrine system, role. Immediate effects of mesial temporal lobe stimulation: intense dream-like experience, d j vu/jamais vu, depersonalization/vertigo, epigastric, vestibular sensations, auditory experiences (hearing knowing, intense meaningfulness, distortion in time perception, fear/panic, pleasure/euphoria, hallucinations. Oct 19th 2016: sense presence (laterality effects; lh = positive; rh = aversive) Species bonding (mother-offspring bonding), intraspecies interaction, empathetic response. The amygdala: attaches meaningfulness and affective to experience, pleasure (or pain/aggression, facial expressions of fear and sensations of fear, emotional memory. Charles whitman: june 24, 1941 - august 1, 1966, energetic, iq 138, hardworking;popular, his supervision at the bank, e. r. hendricks, described charles as a truly outstanding per- son.
