Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Substantia Nigra, Subthalamic Nucleus, Parietal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

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Individual level: cellular level, group level, population level. Ethics and responsibility: respect for persons, beneficence, research ethics boards must review. Informed consent studies: based on tri-council policy statement. The cerebral cortex and )ts lobes : contains structures that contribute to higher cognitive functioning, including reasoning, abstract thought, perception of time, and creativity, divided into two hemisphere: Neurohormones and neurotransmitters: communication in the nervous system is both electrical and chemical, neurotransmitters chemical substances that relay electrical signals between one neuron and the next, field of psychiatry and the use of drug treatments. Neuroimaging: technology that takes pictures of the brain, neuroanatomy ( the brain structure, ct or cat scans (computerized axial tomography, mri (magnetic resonance imaging, other technology used, positron emission tomography (pet scan, functional mri (fmri) Genetics: deoxyribonucleic acid (dna, gene, sex chromosomes, gregor mendel (1822-1884, the law of segregation (dominant vs. recessive, the law of independent assortment.