PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Hindbrain, Brainstem, Cerebral Cortex
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Nervous system: central and peripheral nervous system. Central nervous system: brain & spinal cord. Spinal cord is continuous with ther brain: hard to distinguish between the two. Spinal cord continues into the base of the brain. Forebrain: anterior: forward in the brain, thalamus: relay centre for info coming in from spinal cord. Posterior: toward the back info to frontal part of the brain: hypothalamus: controls life processes in a more complex way. Keeps species alive over a long period of time eating behaviour, drinking, (hunger and thirst are motivating behaviours) territoriality, sex, reproductive behaviours. 4 f"s (feeding, fighting, finding, fucking: limbic system, amygdala tightly interconnected structures involved in emotion, hippocampus, cerebral cortex: most anterior structure in the brain. Massive that it seems like most of the human brain but in fact it"s only a portion. So it"s the largest, complex, most evolved part of the human brain.
