Psychology 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spinal Cord Injury, Posterior Cerebral Artery, Anterior Cerebral Artery

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: Jody Culham

Document Summary

There is some room in our brain to enhance ourselves and develop it (ex. The more folds = more powers + how many neurons you have. Divisions of the nervous system: 2 parts: central nervous system: cns = brain + spinal cord, peripheral nervous system: spinal nerves that come off spine + nerves that come off brains (cranial nerves) autonomic nervous system. Animals and humans have a little bit of diff anatomical labelling but if the animal were to become bipedal and rotate 90 degrees they would match up. Humans = brain and spine have diff labelling (rotate 90 degrees left) Spinal nerves: afferent nerves on dorsal side while efferent on the ventral side (d before v so dorsal before v) Sacrum = sacred bone (formally thought to house the soul) : under lumbar. Autonomic system works a lot without our awareness how aroused we are in our daily lives (ex.