PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peripheral Nervous System, Endocrine System, Neurogenesis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Psy1101-lecture 6-central/peripheral nervous systems and the endocrine system. The brain can recognize itself after injury/ trauma/ disease. If area of brain is damaged, another part can make up for this. Functional plasticity: area of brain can increase or decrease function. Structural plasticity: area of brain could increase or decrease in size as a result of experience. Neurogenesis: ability of the brain to produce new neurons, even in old age. Different halves of the brain are responsible for different functions. We know this based on autopsy, clinical experiments, split-brain experiments. Split-brain patients: individuals who suffered from serious epilepsy. Doctors severed their corpus callosum, preventing the two hemispheres from communicating. Brains have both a left and a right visual field. Information from the right visual field is interpreted by the left hemisphere (and vise- versa) In a normal brain, when information is flashed to one hemisphere, the other will also receive information (hemispheres communicate)