PSYB64H3 Lecture Notes - Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Pia Mater
17 May 2013
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Lecture overview: biological psychology as a field, historical perspectives, research methods, ethics. How biological psychology relates to other fields of study. In some animal species every individual is female. In other disorders, patients are unable to name only certain kinds of animals or certain kinds of food: true. Horseradish peroxidase provides a method for identifying neural pathways. Injected into the thalamus, specifically the lateral geniculate nucleus: pathway becomes darker, the stain will enter the cell body, especially in the retina. Imaging: can watch living brain as it behaves, types of imaging technologies: Magnetic resonance imaging (mri: functional mri (fmri) Ct scans (figure 1. 7: an imaging technique in which computers are used to enhance x-ray images. Visual mind reading: used fmri, can be used to combine info what we learned through animals and histology contribution to the brain, we can find a way to read a person"s mind through fmri.
