PSY290H1 Lecture Notes - Pineal Gland, Evolution Of The Brain, Neuropsychology
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Friday review sessions: optional, for discussing brain diseases, etc, 50 minutes each. Quizzes: 20% of final grade, 3 quizzes, but highest 2 grades are used. Biological psychology courses is in 4 half-courses: psy290 [taking it! Evolution, genes, and proteins: psy280 [took it!] : vision and audition: psy270 [taking it!] : cognition and imaging (neuropsychology: psy260 [not taking it] : learning and memory. Why study the brain: medical reasons. Retardation, psychosis, degeneration: stroke, and trauma are long-term, expensive disorders (amount to about of all medical costs: genetic reasons: More genes are expressed in brain (80%) than any other organ: psychological reasons: Basis of all our thoughts and feelings: philosophical reasons: What are thoughts and feelings: egypt beating heart (moving fluids in blood, hippocrates (400 bc): air moving through brain. Noticed that there are fluid cavities called ventricles, which was thought to allow thoughts, in the form of fluid/air, to pass through the brain: galen (130) moving fluids (ventricles and nerves)