PSY 1101 Lecture : Lectures on the Nervous System These are Brown's 2011 lecture notes for the section on the nervous system, covered by Ch.2 of the Psychology textbook (9th edition). Comments not on slides were written in itallics.

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Robert Brown

Document Summary

Bs ie. you could tell if a person was a criminal by finding a selfish lump. However what they got right functions of the brain are localized. The middle is the cell body and they branch out into dendrites. They are specialized for processing information which connect together. Green fluorescent protein often used to visualize neurons. It is organized from the listening end down to the talking end. Information flow starts from dendrites, comes through the cell body, then the axon goes out into the terminal end which will connect to dendrites of other neurons. The cell bodies themselves are quite small (12 microns) The axon portion can be very long (down from the brain to your foot, for example) Phrenology describing personality type through the formation of the skyll. Neurons a specialized cell type within the brain. Neuron: a nerve cell, the basic building block of the nervous system. Sensory neuron: bring sensory information to the central nervous system.