CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Terri Schiavo Case, Little Albert Experiment

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Maya Rosen

Document Summary

Ps 101 b2: general psychology lecture 4: consciousness and sleep & learning* *discussed after lecture 6 (and labeled on the slide as lecture 8--typo) Persistent vegetative state (coma for more than a month and person is not able to make own decision) Terri schiavo: persistent vegetative state--combination of eeg and ct scan can tell you there is no brain activity. Other cases where patients have been in coma for 19 years but still was conscious of events, like his children"s wedding and came out of coma (jan grzebski) Car accident: damaged brain stem--cuts off communication between body and brain, but still able to be conscious and aware of the surroundings=locked in syndrome. Brain-computer interface--attach electrodes to brain so you can see where the brain is active and the computer can interpret what the person is thinking about. No such thing as a consciousness center--consciousness arises through brain processes that are active at any point in time.