PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Meningitis, Sensory System
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Lecture 8: neurons and the nervous system: central nervous system is where deep decisions are made and processed (consists of brain and spinal cord) If nucleus experiences a converge of mix signals (inhibitory neurons and excitatory neurons telling nucleus 2 different things), nucleus will then sum the info, if nucleus gets. In neurons, they don"t actually touch for data to be sent through. Preventing dopamine from going away and receiving neuron is constantly stimulated. Psya01 week 3: if do cocaine regularly, brain will be adaptive and realize that there"s a lot of dopamine and will be less receptive to dopamine. This will then reduce threshold in receiving neuron: side effects: the undesired effects of taking a drug. Lecture 9: the brain (part 1: what makes the human brain special is that humans can solve problems across a wide variety of situations, brains have many neurons that are working in a distributed way.
