PSYCO275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Musical Note, Monism, Emergence
29 Sep 2017
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Frozen addicts heroin destroyed a part of the brain used for movement, became paralyzed, could still feel and sense without impairment. Because of their frozen state people called them. Biological psychology the study of the biological basis of mind and behaviour. Neuroscientists scientists who study the brain to understand how it works. Neurosciences an integrated approach to the study of the brain and mind involving many sciences and other related disciplines. Within the brain lies an electrical circuitry that generates our most profound thoughts, primitive desires and deeply felt emotions. It can even question its very own existence. Biological psychologists study the relationship between cellular circuits in the brain and the behaviours and thoughts that these circuits produce. Brain circuits are formed when individual called called neurons connect with each other. Neuron a basic cell type in the nervous system. Synapse the location at which one neuron influences the next neuron in the circuit.
