PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caudate Nucleus, Fourth Ventricle, Diffusion Mri

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Andree- Anne Ledoux

Document Summary

Important concepts: cns, pns, afferent and efferent spatial and anatomical orientation, 3 layers of meninges surface and inner features of the brain, arteries, macro-microscopic structures of brain. This reality can differ depending on the time of the day. You won"t be panicked about a phone call at 3 pm, but at. 3am you might be anxious to receive a phone call. The environment around us helps create our reality: emotion and adaptation causes us to have different sensory/cognitive realities than other animals. This brain ability to adapt, this is plasticity in the brain: produce commands to control the movement of muscles. Neural tissue has the capacity to adapt to the world by changing how its functions are organized. The brain will adapt to become better at playing a certain instrument once you have practiced it over and over again. The cortex for music playing will be larger than in the rest of people.