PSYC 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pineal Gland, Tabula Rasa, Endocrine System
21 Sep 2020
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Psych is many faceted science; perspective will be physiological. Focus on relationship btwn brain and behavior. Parts of brain involved in emotional response. Physiology of behavior: the role of the nervous system interacting with rest of the body especially endocrine system (controls hormones) What behavioral neuroscientists attempt to study as well as all behavior phenomena on non human animals (p. 23) Now that you are an adult you are losing neurons constantly and they don"t grow back at all. Exercise and sleep and go to school. We have the amazing experiences and complexity is from the connection of this sheer number of neurons. The human adult cerebral cortex is 77% of the total brain volume. Your cortex is what gives you your conscience awareness. Mirror neuron activating circuit: in autism these three parts are connected differently in development or damaged. Split brain patients- left and right hemispheres don"t talk to each other (this is where that statement started)
