PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Thyroid, Addiction, Lateral Hypothalamus
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Fall 2019 eating pleasure center us good feelings. Ex: people focus on the rewards in life or in a situation. Amygdala: where most of our endorphins are being produced aka reward and. Whenever something feels good it is due to our amygdala being active. Drug addiction: hard to overcome because the amygdala is being stimulated which gives. Ventromedial hypothalamus: responsible for making you hungry and the onset of. Lateral hypothalamus: gets you to stop eating because it makes you get full. Hypothalamus: makes you aggressive, controls sexual behaviour (gets one aroused), Thalamus: serves as the relay station for virtually all the information that flows into and. Reason for intense obesity in people is because their satiety is not functioning. Smell) travels first to parts of the thalamus or hypothalamus and then to the area of the cortex that handles vision, hearing, touch or taste. Smell travels directly to the processing center.
