PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pituitary Gland, Hypothalamus, Midbrain Tectum

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Michael Souza

Document Summary

Brain wrinkle, gyrus, sulcus, fissure, frontal lobe. Control movement for the body: motor cortex, face and hand, the more space you took of the map the more good control of your body, somatosensory cortex. Initiated voluntary movements and sends messages to the basal ganglia, cerebellum, and spinal cord. If the body area is more sensitive, a larger part of the somatosensory cortex is devoted to it. Cortical distribution of gray and white matter: gray matter, neuron highway, dendrites, white matter, region a to region b. Forebrain: medial structure: thalamus, relays and filters information from the senses and transmits the information to the cerebral cortex. Like or scary: depression, anxiety, ptsd, autism, corpus callosum, connect the two side of brain, could be dramatically damage by alcohol. The undersupply of dopamine then affects the striatum in the basal ganglia, which in turn leads to the visible behavioral symptoms of parkinson"s: motor control.