PSYC 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Coccyx, Retrograde Amnesia, Neurodegeneration

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Boyer Winters

Document Summary

Focus on a single subject and describe it in great detail, problem: difficult to generalize. Neuroscience very diverse: neuroanatomy: anatomy of nervous system, neurochemistry: study of the chemical basis of neural activity, neuroendocrinology: endocrine = hormones, neuropharmacology: system disorders, neurophysiology: functinos and activities of the nervous system. Biopsychology and its divisions: physiological psychology: surgical or electrical brain manipulation lab, psychopharmacology: drug manipulation w lab animals, basic and applied animals, mainly basic research research, neuropsychology: effects of brain damage, human. Basic and applied research: psychophysiology: non-invasive human studies. Basic and applied research: cognitive neuroscience: neural bases of cognition. Non-invasive recording of brain avtivity eg. pet scan: comparative psychology and ethnology: interpretation of neurobiology of behaviour as a whole, functioning organisms in reality. Multidisciplinary approach is the most effective approach to behavioural neuroscience. Neuron: has a cell body, has a number of processes that emerge from it, dendrites: picks up nerotransmitters, axon: carries signals down the neuron.