PSYCO275 Chapter Notes -Anterograde Amnesia, Frontal Lobe, Behavioral Neuroscience

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO275
• Professor: Deanna Singhal

Document Summary

Neuroscience: the scientific study of the nervous system. Comprises several related disciplines, one of them is biopsychology. 49 year old patient who believed he was 19 frozen in time. Four major themes: thinking creatively about biopsychology. So much biopsychology info fed to us: so we have lots of opinions and preconceptions. We definitely want to look at the evidence presented: like patient data, animal studies, etc. But we want to build on these ideas, overcome restrictive effects of conventional thinking. Sometimes we also have to think outside the box . Thinking creatively: in a productive and unconventional way. Split brain patients: sever epilepsy: corpus callosum severed, unique opportunities for research. Two aspects: much of what biopsychologists learn about the functioning of the normal brain comes from studying diseased and damaged brains, much of what biopsychologists discover has relevance for treatment of brain disorders. Heroin users, mptb, parkinson like symptoms: clinical implications, the evolutionary perspective, neuroplasticity.