NSCI 0817 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Generalised Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Phenotype, Epigenetics
25 Mar 2016
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Thinking about the biology of behavior: we conceptualize behavior in terms of mutually exclusive categories, thinking in dichotomies . Useful way to iniially approach complex processes. Idenify and focus on what makes behavior x unique/what deines the behavior: concept is now aniquated if that is exclusively how processes are assessed. For example : is behavior physiological or psychological? . Physical and pharmacological manipulaions alter psychological processes: phineas gage-speciically severed connecion between cortex and amygdala, alcohol-low dosages funcions as a simulant/dis-inhibitor//high dosages will render one unconscious. Psychological manipulaions alter physical properies: stress impacts immune system (stomach. Implies a 1 dimensional approach to behavior. Akin to using the game of batleship as a model for modern warfare: behavior is not that simple. Rarely are such processes like behavior that simple. Disincion between : genotype: geneic informaion, phenotype: observable traits (physical or behavioral) Biology can inluence the expression of behavior while, simultaneously, behavior can inluence the expressions of biology.
