PSYC31H3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Wise Intelligent, Warrington, Ventricular System
PSYC31H3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
PSYC31 Clinical Neuropsychology Clara Rebello
PSYC31: Lecture 1
• Traumatic Brain Injury case
o L.D. fell off a balcony and down five
flights of stairs
o Coma score of 3 → Lowest score
▪ Glasgow Coma Scale 3-15
o CT scan revealed bleeding on the
right and left sides of his brain
o Neuropsychological testing found
impaired scores for verbal memory
and attention
o Reported difficulties
▪ Multitasking
▪ Being easily frustrated and
annoyed
▪ Inability to smell and taste
▪ Disinterested in socialization → He ended his 4-year relationship
o PET scans showed improper blood flow in
both sides of the brain
▪ Before is image on the light, after is
image on the right
▪ Absorption of glucose (activation of
brain parts) in the brain is
represented by the colours of the
scan
▪ Red = Most absorption
▪ Blue = Lowest absorption
o Later he was able to go ak to golfig ut ould’t perfor ertai tasks suh as golfig
▪ Unlike cooking, golfing requires mainly muscle memory
• Neuroscience fits in many other fields
o Computers and software
o Chemistry
o Psychology
o Neuropsychology
o Cognitive science
o Biology
o Medicine
o Microbiology
o Language and linguistics
o Music
o Ethology: Study of animal behaviour
o Electronics
o Physics
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PSYC31 Clinical Neuropsychology Clara Rebello
o Ethics
o Philosophy
o Math
• Psychology: The scientific study of the human mind and functions, especially with respect to
behavior
o What is the mind?
▪ What do you think?
▪ Awareness
▪ Consciousness
▪ Motivation
▪ Perception
▪ Free will?
o Studying behaviour by looking at consciousness/unconsciousness awareness
• Neuroscience: The field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the
structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous
system that effect the brain
o Every thought, sensation, emotion, physical movement, behavior, etc. has neuronal
origin
▪ Chemistry on structure → Twins vs. clone
▪ Will the clone/your twin have the exact biology and psychology and you? →
Environment may influence twins differently (epigenetics)
o Every human behaviour = Constellation of neuronal activity
▪ It’s hat akes you, you
• Brain is behaviour, behaviour is brain
• Neuroscience studies the brain
o Psychology studies behaviour
o Neuropsychology is the marriage of both disciplines with both experimental and clinical
manifestations
• Clinical neuropsychology: An applied science concerned with the behavioural expression of
brain dysfunction
o How people behave in their day to day life as a result of brain dysfunction
o Imagining a broad range of scores on a normal distribution, those considered to have a
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• Types of neurosciences
o Molecular
▪ Examines the molecular biology/biochemistry, molecular genetics, protein
chemistry of the nervous system
▪ Looking at proteins within a neuron
▪ Action potentials
o Cellular
▪ Studies morphology (shape) and physiological (function) properties of single
neurons
▪ Example: Immunohisto-chemistry, development and differentiation of nerve
cells
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Document Summary
Environment may influence twins differently (epigenetics: every human behaviour = constellation of neuronal activity. Looking at proteins within a neuron: action potentials, cellular, studies morphology (shape) and physiological (function) properties of single neurons, example: immunohisto-chemistry, development and differentiation of nerve cells. Interested in mentalism: created the first theory of behaviour, the mind is not necessarily connected to your brain anatomy. Imagination: thoughts, perceptions, emotions, opinions, desires, etc. In fact, gall was the first to realize that frontal lobe damage was associated with the loss of the ability to speak: stated that language was below the eyes. Issues with phrenology: hard to define and quantify findings objectively, features of the skull reveal little about the brain skull does not mirror even superficial brain surface. Clara rebello: discussion started regarding lateralization: tendency for functions to be localized to one side of the brain, warming up to localization.
