PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Electrodermal Activity, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Cheryl Limebeer

Document Summary

The ironic case of professor p. : removal of tumour the auditory cranial nerve. Part 1: methods of studying the nervous system. 5. 1-methods of visualizing and stimulating the living human brain. Involve injecting into ione compartment of the body a substance that absorbs x-rays either less or more than the surrounding tissue. Heightens contrast between compartment and surrounding tissue. Cerebral angiography (contrat x-ray technique)- uses the infusion of a radio opaque dye into a cerebral artery to visualizethe cerebral curculatory system during. Useful for localizing vascular damage, dsplaceent of blood vessels from normal position can indicate tumour. Computed tomography (ct)- computer assisted x-ray procedure that can be used to visualize the brain and other internal structures of the living body. X-ray tube and detector rotate around the head of of the patient at one level of the brain, taking many individual x-ray photographs as they rotate.