PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sagittal Plane, Autonomic Nervous System, Cranial Nerves
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Science in the media: how mediation affects the our brains, how exercise boosts your brainpower. Boost your memory the intensity of your workout makes a difference too. A study in neurobiology of learning and memory found that people learned vocabulary words 20 percent faster after intense exercise than after low- intensity activity. Those who did more demanding exercise had a bigger spike in their brains" levels of. So the more you challenge your body, the more your gray matter benefits. Neuroanatomy: indeed, perhaps the most important general observation that can be made about the brain is that its anatomy is the most important thing about it. Cns: spinal cord, brainstem thalamus, cortex etc. Pns: cranial nerves, spinal nerves, autonomic nervous system. Sections of the brain: sagittal plane, horizontal plane frontal plane, cross section. Three ways of organizing the brain frontal bone: cortical areas named by parts of the skull, zygomatic arch, parietal bone temporal bone, occipital one.
