01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychosurgery, Endocrine System, Homeostasis

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

Frontal lobe: planning, consciousness, higher order funcions (less acions, more thinking) Contralaterality: let hemisphere controls right side of the body and vice versa. Corical areas (broca"s and wernicke"s) for language processing. Broca"s area: discovered because speech impediment and in autopsy large amount of cell death in that area: can read and comprehend but cannot speak. Wernicke"s area: involved in understanding speech: if damage there, can sill speech but understanding is limited. Hippocampus: criical to memory and consolidaion of long term memories: working memory to permanent storage, amnesia. Hypothalamus: the connecion between cns and endocrine system: under the thalamus, controls homeostasis o. How do we know which brain structures do what: injuries and stroke, etc, psychosurgery, modern technologies.