ANAT3022 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Cognition, Brainstem, Monoamine Neurotransmitter
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Topic questions: main cause of chronic disability, how these techniques contribute to our knowledge of the relationship between biology and psychology. Activity of neurons: communication between neurons, phrenology lumps on head caused by overactive and large part of brain, paul broke, carl wernicke study of lesions in brain, correlation with expressive/receptive dysfunctions. Measuring neural activity: <<>, mri vs pet, mri show shape of brain, potential to not be able to pick up early alzheimers, etc, pet, where radioisotope is gathering, mimics glucose used by brain. Unlikely: pleiotropy single brain region might contribute to multiple psychological function, redundancy single psychological function can be performed in many different brain region, plasticity of cortex, developmental effects. Neuroanatomy: essential, base of knowledge, essential research tool. Inside of thumb hippocampus: basal ganglia, actions and thought, habitual actions, towards a goal/similar what we desire. If membrane is depolarised to a particular threshold, there is a sudden rush of positive sodium ions into neuron.
