PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Endocrine System, Visual Cortex, Psychoneuroimmunology
Document Summary
Brain has remarkable powers to heal itself. Plasticity of the brain often depends on your age. Evidence that you can grow more dendrites in the brain. One dendrite may be in communication with 200,000 other dendrites. How the brain repairs damage: collateral sprouting: cells grow new branches. Central nervous system is connected to the endocrine system. Endocrine send signals through hormones, not chemicals. Essential function of glands is to send messages and signals. When you feel stress, it triggers secretion of stress hormones. Recovery time has implications for a person"s immune system. If people are sensitive to stress, their recovery time is prolonged. Every aspect of your health is the immune system. We all breathe the same air with the same bacteria in it, but not everyone. If you"re happy and content, your immune system is probably very powerful gets sick. Has to do with the strength of their immune system.
