PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plantar Reflex, Vomiting, Moro Reflex
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The brain has numerous parts, interconnected by circular pathways. Every part of the brain is responsible for everything done. All parts of the brain are being used all the time, the 10% myth is wrong. Discussed how if someone was better at something like art, the part of the brain that controlled that talent was slightly bigger. Used an electrical probe to stimulate different parts of the brain to produce different responses. Detects the micro-charges in the brain, increases with thinking and stress and decreases with relaxation. Mris show how active specific parts of the brain out without using radiation. It is very difficult to measure specific brain activity. You can look at the different layers of the brain. Diffusion tensor imaging allows to find the pathways between two nerves. Birds use their midbrain a lot for optical tracking. Glial cells set the operation of the brain. The slow communicators of the neural system.
