PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Fuel, Brainstem
21 Jan 2014
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Module 4: neural and hormonal systems: biology, behaviour and mind. Every idea, mood, urge is a biological happening. Plato correctly located the mind in the spherical head. Aristotle, his student, believed the mind was in the heart. In the early 1800s, german physician franz gall proposed that phrenology, which was studying bumps on the skill to reveal a person"s mental abilities and character traits. Although it proved to be false, it focused attention to localization of function - the idea that various brain regions have particular functions: neural communication. Neurons differ, but have the same theme. Each neuron consists of a cell body and its branching fibers. The bushy dendrite fibers receive information and conduct it toward the cell body. From there the cell"s lengthy axon fiber passes the message through its terminal branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands.
