PSC 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Anxiety Disorder, Brenda Milner
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Stresses cardiac system for body trying to maintain body heat: psychological: trier social stress test (tsst) Simulate an interview; perceive the situation as stress: stress physiology activation of sympathetic nervous system and. *a cascade of events starting in the brain, but reaching all of the body: memory in the brain, henry molaison (hm, hippocampi removed (and some more cortical regions, when hm"s hippocampi was removed, Impaired: new learning: spared: memory for semantic facts, memory for events before surgery, motor learning, william scoville removed hm"s hippocampi. Brenda milner ran tests on him: focus on hippocampus and amygdala, emotion in the brain, sharot, delgado, & phelps (2004) examined fmri activity during recognition of neutral and emotional pictures. *amygdala was most active for remembered emotional pictures. *parahippocampus was more active for remembered neutral pictures: memory for emotion relies on a specialized network of brain regions, including the amygdala, acute stress & memory (how it"s studied)
