Psychology 2054A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nucleus Accumbens, Binge Eating Disorder, Opioid Peptide

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2054A/B
• Professor: Foley

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Topic 3- appetite regulation- central mechanisms of eating: psychology of eating. Most people think of psychologists as clinicians and counsellors instead of scientists. All influences on behavior are investigated: personality, cognitions, emotions, environmental, social, cultural, biological, neuroscience basics- the brain. Frontal lobe: executive functions, decision making, planning impulse control, does(cid:374)(cid:859)t fi(cid:374)ish de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g until we are 17 or 18 years old. Parietal lobe: sensory functions (taste, touch, pain), language, vision, first place information goes after coming in through the brain stem. Cerebellum: (cid:862)little (cid:271)rai(cid:374)(cid:863) integration, muscle coordination, learning, memory, learning a motor movement and remembering it. Brain stem: basic survival, entry point for input from outside of brain. Hypothalamus: involved in temperature regulation, control of thirst, hunger, sex drive, and release of hormones, close to pituitary gland: the neuron. Neurons communicate with each other to form pathways. Pathways transmit information to different parts of the brain, result in behavior (sensation, thought, action)