01:830:331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Morris Water Navigation Task, Amygdala, Twin

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:331
• Professor: West

Document Summary

~rotating the thing by 90o requires learning it all over again. ~there are place cells in hippocampus, only fire when subject is in specific place in environment. ~the place field of cells can rotate with the environment. ~once established, the place fields are maintained over time. ~when thinking of easy routes, hippocampus is moderately active. ~when imagining novel routes, hippocampus is extremely active. ~interactions between hippocampus and amygdala and other areas make up real memory. ~age of onset for schizophrenia tends to be earlier in males (common at ~20 yo) and later in females (common at ~50 yo) Also in the next generation monozygotic twins in which one is schizo and the other isn"t, have same occurrence of kids with schizo.