Psychology 3224A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Traumatic Brain Injury, Anatomical Terms Of Motion, Recognition Memory
28 Dec 2015
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3224 lecture 2: neurological disorders and diagnostic techniques. Stroke, traumatic brain injury (tmi), tumours, epilepsy. These are just 4 types (many more) that are most frequently occurring/diagnosed) They are the core data of the field of cognitive neuroscience. I. e. , much of our knowledge of human brain function has been derived from systematic studies of these disorders. Before patients with brain lesions and diseases were our only clues. Case studies vs. group studies vs. multiple-case studies. No such thing as a perfect method each has limitations. Important to gather info using variety of methods to seek convergent evidence. Need to have multiple techniques to gain confidence in out conclusions. Intact brains: single neuron recording (just animals, electroencephalography (eeg, magnetoencephalography (meg, anatomical neuroimaging. Dysfunctional brains: transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms, clinical neuropsychology (study patients with brain injuries) Research studies/evaluations often take place in a clinical setting. Damage to left frontal cortex speech deficits. Have to rule out other deficits (e. g. , visual, auditory)
