PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Schizophrenia, Substantia Nigra, Prosopagnosia
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Very small compared to grand mall epilepsy. Rolling up of eyes, twitches, loss of awareness. Twitching or rolling back of the eyes 5-20 seconds. 50-75% of the times is occurs by itself; but it can occur in patients with other kinds of epilepsy. Eeg 3 cycle per second activity broad waves with little spikes. It is involved with seeing/recognizing and left visual field: the part of your retina toward the outside portion of your head is referred to as your temporal portion of your retina. The portion closest to your nose is your nasal portion. Their anatomy is very different: the information from the retina leaves from the optic nerve. Your retina is part of your brain that grows away from your brain: optic nerve is what we call it as it leaves the retina. Then the two nerves cross and that is known as the optic chiasm.
