PSY398H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Medial Forebrain Bundle, Pineal Gland, Limbic System
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Test is 2 hours long and mcq and sa. No name or dates needed but we need to know the underlying mechanisms like what did de carte do. Sa you can answer is nay way possible like diagrams. Posterior pituitary is electrically driven via the nervous system: so projections from hypothalamus that lead to excretion of vasopressin and oxytocin. Ne is a nt and hormone but dopamine is only a nt: so we can see that certain things can only be a nt or hormone, but there are chemicals that function as both. Dopamine is important in the substantia niagra that is where the cell bodies are so that is where it is synthesized and then distributed to other parts of the brain. Medial forebrain bundle carry a lot of those nts to other arts of the brain. Striatum is primary area for the limbic system. Indolamines: come from tryptophan (both are synthesized from it, ne and serotonin.
