PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Substantia Nigra, Visual Processing, Syphilis
Lecture note 6 PSY 309:
• Kraeplin
• First person to develop classification system (scientifically based; unlike Hippocrates)
believed mental disorders was rooted in physical disorders
• Greisinger
• Leading investigator in syphilis and how it contributed to mental illness. (delusions)
• Hippocampus
• Process all input. Short Term to long term
• Frontal Lobe
• Judgement, planning, attention, personality, motor strip at rear
• Parietal Lobe
• spatial reasoning; integration of senses
• Temporal Lobe
• Facial recognition ; langauge
• Occipital Lobe
• Visual processing
• Hypothalamus
• 4 F's. Fleeing, Feeding, Fighting, F**king (reproduction) monitors homeostasis
• Amygdala
• Fear & anger
• Substantia nigra
• Black liquid moving through the mid brain. Dopamine creator
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• Witmer
• Opened first outpatient Clinic at University of Pennsylvania. (worked under Wuntt)
• Cicero
• Make connection to bodily ailments to psychosomatic (body and mind are both
affected).
• Dix
• Reformed asylums in America. Established 32 institutions in America.
• Rush
• Reformed asylums in America. Founder of APA, considered father of psychology.
Founder of American Journal.
• Tuke
• Known for kindness and acceptance he presented toward patients. He is from France.
• Pinel
• Reformed asylums. (removal of restraints) made them more humane. He is from France.
• Weyer
• Wrote Deception of Demons which debunked witch craft. First physician to specialize in
the treatment of the mentally ill.
• Galen
• Changed Hippocrates hysteria. Provides accurate description of nervous system.
• Plato
• Brought up mentally ill can't be responsible for actions. Precursor to Freud.
• Hippocates
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• Known for creating the first diagnostic system. (the humors) Family transmission and
brain causes illness. Defined hysteria as a disease. of women who had wandering womb
and in order to cure it they needed to have sex (later disproved).
• Avicenna
• Wrote the canon of Medicine. Mania, hysteria & depression.
• Thalamus
• sensory switchboard. Traffic controller (expect smell)
• Clinical Psychologist
• (Ph.D. or Psy.D.) Emphasis on treatment of mental disorders (research training)
• Pituitary
• Master gland. Control rest of the glands
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• 2 years of graduate school/ 2 years of supervised training
• Licensed Professional Counselor
• 2 years of graduate school (60 hours) / 2 years of supervised training
• Statistical Infrequency
• Pro: Easy to see where its fits. Ex: bell curve
• Con: Just because it isn't normal doesn't mean it is bad. Ignores mild cases when using
this way.
• Violation of Social Norms
• Pro: Easy to spot when people aren't doing something socially acceptable
• Con: Our social norms can be screwed up and change (i.e. the beetles music was not
okay @ first but it was just how society felt at the time)
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Document Summary
Short term to long term: frontal lobe. Judgement, planning, attention, personality, motor strip at rear: parietal lobe, spatial reasoning; integration of senses, temporal lobe, facial recognition ; langauge, occipital lobe, visual processing, hypothalamus, 4 f"s. Fleeing, feeding, fighting, f**king (reproduction) monitors homeostasis: amygdala, fear & anger, substantia nigra, black liquid moving through the mid brain. Dopamine creator: witmer, opened first outpatient clinic at university of pennsylvania. (worked under wuntt, cicero, make connection to bodily ailments to psychosomatic (body and mind are both affected), dix, reformed asylums in america. Established 32 institutions in america: rush, reformed asylums in america. Founder of american journal: tuke, known for kindness and acceptance he presented toward patients. He is from france: pinel, reformed asylums. (removal of restraints) made them more humane. He is from france: weyer, wrote deception of demons which debunked witch craft. First physician to specialize in the treatment of the mentally ill: galen, changed hippocrates hysteria.
