PSYC 1032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Frontal Lobe
20 May 2016
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Orientation: directions rostral = anterior (toward head) caudal = posterior (toward tail) dorsal = back side ventral = belly side. Orientation: planes / cuts sagittal: perpendicular to floor; parallel to midline coronal (frontal): perpendicular to the floor axial (horizontal): parallel to floor ipsilateral: same side contralateral: opposite side. Anatomy neocortex: newest cortex brain has large fissures smaller folds are sulci tissue between sulci are gyri grey matter: found in brain and spinal cord; where cell bodies are. White matter: found in brain or spinal cord; composed of connecting fiber, or axons, which look white bc of myelin (coating) Measurement of activity: erps - time locked way of looking at eeg signals, pet scans - inject radioactive chaser into someone"s bloodstream and see where it goes in the brain fmri o. Subject sm046 pt lacks amygdala hippocampus has functioning grey matter.
