PSYB65H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Basal Ganglia, Myelin, Temporal Lobe
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Aphemia (broca"s aphasia): left frontal lobe lesions and are incapable of speech but retained ability to understand language. Cardiocentric hypothesis: heart is the centre for cognitive and emotional function. Engram: a change in the brain that is responsible for storing memories (karl lashey) Equipotentiality: proposal that the cortex function as a whole, with no specialization within it. Histology: examination of think, fixed section of the brain that has been stained with different techniques (golgi stain) Law of mass action: the proposal that the degree of deficit is directly related to the proportion of brain that has been lesioned. Leucotomy: the procedure in which the thalamus is disconnected from the frontal lobe with a special knife called leukotome (moniz) Monism: the idea that the mind and the body is the same thing (neuropsychologist believe this) Neuron doctrine: neurons were not continuous and they must communicated by contact (santiago.
