PSY 358 Lecture 8: HormonesandBehavior8
10 Mar 2016
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Whatever affects the brain during development affects aging: under ventricles there is a bunch of cells that are part of neurogenesis (during 4 months of gestation, cells start to move, goes up and finds a place in the cortex (brain develops inside out, migration finishes at 6 months gestation, axonal elongation, cells put out an axon and can start to make transmission b. functions as a brain, synaptogenesis, peaks at 2 years old i. most you will ever have, 6 7 years old it comes to a stable amount of synaptic connections, myelination (oligodendroglial cells, brain regions that act quickly, occurs all the way to adult, slows down for women at 18 and men in early 20"s, prefrontal amygdala is the last to develop. 1. levels cause different seasons colds: progesterone, healthy pregnancy, maintaining pregnancy and affects mom, changes mom"s brain to get maternal attitude, mom i. ii. releases oxytocin becomes allopregnanolone neurosteroids increases activity at gaba receptors.
