Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Generalised Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Mendelian Inheritance, Random Assignment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Pns (peripheral nervous system)- aka somatic nervous system rest of the body. Brain stem (controls fundamental biological function- breathing, bp)---> basic stuff. Medulla, pons, and cerebellum (regulate breathing, heart beat and motor control) Damage to cerebellum = can"t move, problem with balance. Thalamus (relay station, directing nerve signals that carry sensory information to the cortex) Direct nerve signals to the different parts of the cortex. Bp up, hypothalamus kicks in and bring the bp down. Amygdala, the cingulate gyrus, and the hippocampus- deals primarily with emotions and impulses. ->damage then can"t remember long term, only short term. Caudate, putamen, nucleus accumbens, globus pallidus, substantia nigra, and subthalamic nucleus- thought to inhibit movement. L affected transfer to the r so the r is also affected. Able to recall long-term memories that occurred before the surgery. Stm (short term memory) is not dependent on functioning hippocampus. Ltm must go through the hippocampus to be stored.