FRHD 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neuroscience, Myelin, Peer Pressure
11 Apr 2016
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Human resilience can also be found in the animal kingdom. Neurobiology of resilience: maternal adaptaion how the mom takes care of children (rats, too much corisol good atachment gives opimal levels, no mater animal or human genes are afected by early atachment, hippocampal atrophy. Adolescence mental life is changing; not just the body but also the brain: limbic system. Moivaion is diferent don"t clamp down on the adolescent rather support them because their brain is changing. Atachment what we have as mammals reliance on another person: emoion evokes moion gets them to do something, cortex. Think, see things planning decision making area that matures last! Interacions with the world in interacions with the genes creates a stronger connecion in the brain: the remodeling that happens; what you do with your mind changes the structure and funcion of the brain. 3x more likely to be seriously injured or die even though they have stronger bodies.
