PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Avail, Rebound Effect, Phineas Gage
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Week 9 lecture #7: thursday june 30, 2016. Molly crocket ted talk: http://www. ted. com/talks/molly_crockett_beware_neuro_bunk?language=en serotonin and decision making. Disgusting lemon drink that takes away serotonin in the brain. Some thing exist in cheese and chocolate. Neuroscience showing up more and more in science. The image of the brain sells products. Ppl agree more w/ the conclusions of the same article with an image of the brain. Scan a part of the brain and showed them iphone reading. Correlated w/ love and compassion but a whole lot more of other functions (pain) Other studies show it induces envy and ingroup bias. Can"t diagnose ppl w/ mental disorder with just one brain scan. But a lot of clinicians have done so. Subcortical parts of the brain is older. Limbic system & prefrontal cortex key for emotional processes including emotion regulation. Most animals have this part of the brain. Emotions associated with rewards; sex & etc. Dopamine is released in the nucleus accumbens.
