PSYB65H3 Lecture : Lecture 1
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Central nervous system brain + spinal chord spinal chord is continuous with the brain hard to tell where it ends and where it begins. Modern /frontal/newly evolved parts of the brain), hypothalamus (controls life processes, keeps the species alive over a long period of time, ie: eating behaviour, aggression/defensiveness, mating/survival behaviour. If it feels good, it"s in the hypothalamus , 4 fs; finding, feeding, fighting, sexual reproduction ) limbic system = amygdala (aggression), hippocampus, sometimes hypothalamus (emotion) cerebral cortex (aka neo cortex) = most anterior structure in the brain. Very large part of the brain, in fact, it covers up a lot of other structures in the brain. It develops in a similar way to how the brain is theorized to have evolved (ontogeny *individual development* recapitulates *copies/goes through the same kinds of processes as* phylogeny *species development/evolution*, but it"s not a perfect example)
