PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Central Nervous System, Pineal Gland, Julien Offray De La Mettrie

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Andra Smith

Document Summary

Studying brain and behavior in modern humans. Many behavioral disorders can be explained and possibly cured by understanding the brain. The brain is the most complex living organ on earth. How the brain produces both behavior and human consciousness is a major unanswered scientific question. Heavily folded outer layer of brain tissue composed of neurons (cortex=bark: gyri: bumps on the folded surface, sulci: grooves of the cortex. Spinal cord: part of the cns encased within the vertebrae or spinal column. All the neurons in the body that are located outside the brain and spinal cord. A brain cell engaged in information processing. Touching something hot, from hand to spinal cord to brain) Neuron that carries incoming information from sensory receptors into the spinal cord and brain. From realizes you touched something hot to make your hand move, from spinal cord and brain to hand) Neuron that carries information from the spinal cord and brain to make muscles contract.