COGS 11 Lecture Notes - Autism Spectrum, Neuroscience, Orgasm
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Hormone that acts as a neurotransmitter and plays some sort of role in social interaction. Involved in childbirth, orgasm, pair bonding, social recognition, trust. Allows humans to understand actions and intentions of others by observing their actions. Simulation of actions of others higher order social processes. Thinking and emotion are so impaired that the individual is out of context with reality. Blunted emotions, loss of interest and drive. Significant progressive gray matter loss is very rapid. Impairments can appear before true onset of frank illness. Mns implicated in social cognition of healthy participants. Evidence to support dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Brain-computer interface/neural rehabilitation: can use a computer to teach people. Main impairment in patients with schizophrenia was in perceiving biological motion. Treatment with oxytocin could predict that patients will respond to oxytocin more easily later on. If a patient responds well to oxytocin early on, they will probably respond very well later.
