Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cerebral Cortex, Movement Disorder, Convulsion

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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* psychologist is a protected term (licensed: psychiatrist: medical (drugs, psychologist: mental. * therapist, counselor, psychotherapist and hypnotist are not protected terms. * in conjunction with some form of talking therapy: to take care of symptoms and problem. * need when: patient may be too down to talk, may be suicidal. * brain surgery in the absence of obvious organic damage. * calming effect for prefrontal lobotomy: but, intellectual difficulty, death is possible, we don"t do this procedure anymore. * cingulectomy: cut the cingulum bundle, fibers connecting prefrontal lobes to limbic system, few side effects. * as last resort, must have consent, irreversible. * because von meduna, saw that people with seizures improved after attacks: initially with drugs, cerletti: started using electricity. * small, quick current induces wild firing of neurons: today, the patient is anesthetized and paralyzed prior to treatment to elimate convulsion. * only on right hemisphere, to have less damage to verbal memory.