PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Reduced Affect Display, Lobotomy, Prosopagnosia
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Old (inner) cerebellum balance (linked to semicircular canals of ears and trochlear nerve that moves the eyeballs); damage causes cerebellar ataxia. New (outer) cerebellum rapid automatic movements, timing of movements and thoughts. Hunger, thirst, body temperature and induction of fever (pyrogens) Basal ganglia background postural (axial) movements smooth pursuit eye movements regulation of foreground/ background thinking (disrupted in ocd) Epilepsy in temporal lobes (complex partial seizure disorder): Complex visual/touch perception (r) body sense (l) arithmetic, left-right sense. 1. long-term memory ( hippocampus in old cortex and connected parts of neocortex: left side: language comprehension (oral and written, right side: comprehension of music and drawings; face-blindness ( prosopagnosia) 4. damage can cause personality changes that can include violeent outbursts (amygdala in old cortex, which affects emotional appraisal) Frontal lobes: map of primary motor area (the maps are dynamic ) Failure to sequence behavior (poor following of instructions) Felt desires such as food and drug cravings.
