PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nucleus Accumbens, Prefrontal Cortex, Behavioral Addiction
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Gaba inhibitory, seizures, anxiety: anti-anxiety meds help gaba bind more effectively to post- synaptic receptors, glutamate and gaba are opposites. Acetylcholine (ach) pns vs. cns: muscle/motor vs. higher cognition (learning, memory), plasticity, alzheimer"s, ect. Dopamine reward (+motor functions, planning, and many higher- serotonin mood, emotion, motivation, impulse control, ect. level interactions with cognitive functions: many many many other peptides that are involved in everything. We are clay beings made up of chemical gods. Dopamine system: so what guides us to do what we do and why: we respond to what we find pleasurable, neurons don"t feel pleasure, it is purely a subjective experience. Activity in the nucleus accumbens is a universal pleasure. Brain in your hand: wrist and back of hand brain stem and occipital lobe. Outside fingernails focuses on regulating your attention. Middle fingernails medial prefrontal cortex close to the brain stem/limbic system/outer fingernails. Know specific systems covered in detail in textbook.
