Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Corpus Callosum, Reticular Formation, Lesion

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Brain is critical to behaviours, feelings, thoughts ect. Theories behind schizophrenia: devil to upbringing to chemical imbalance in the brain. Certain parts of the brain are critically important. Hm: sever seizures removed front part of hippocampus (cid:272)ould(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g involving short term memory or new generated memories. People without a hippocampus can still remember family member, ride a bike, playing music. Memories don(cid:859)t reside in hippocampus: but lays down the memories. Look at people who have damage to the brain. Nervous system refers to the brain and everything connected to it. Brain: network with a lot of connections. Structure of the neuron: how it works. Various levels of the nervous system: brain cells: Neurons: 100 billion transmit all information: as long as a meter or as small as a millimetre. Transmitting the information that determines everything we do. Glial cells: support the structure of the brain and provide the nutrition to the neurons and remove the garbage.

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