BIOC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Serotonin Transporter, Axon Terminal, Neurotransmitter
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Have a flow from dna to behavior. Focus is predominately on clinical research, involves understanding human disorders and disease. Some of our biases play into our interpretations of these effects that we see of genes on phenotypes of behaviors: people with downs syndrome have physical features that make people expect less of them. Brain being the primary organ for driving behavior and being made up with a variety of different cell types, primarily being neurons and glial. Neuropharmacology being the study of how drugs affect communication of neurons. Neuropharmacology perhaps had the greatest impact on the understanding of the relationships between neurons and behavior because we found that. Neuropharmacology field that focuses on the effects of drugs on behavior some drugs that act on certain neurotransmitter system will have an effect on behavior in particular ways. The environment effect all of these levels. Neurons are the basic unit of how the brain functions.
