PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuroglia, Frontal Lobe

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

There are few more rapidly developing areas of research than biological approaches to psych, especially neuropsychology, the study of the brain. Sandra witelson studied the brain of albert einstein, whose brain was injected with formalin to preserve it. There were exceptions to einstein"s brain, including; a wider parietal region (toward the top and back of the brain), a distinct sylvan fissure (or groove separating the frontal lobe from the temporal lobe), etc. One traditional method was to examine the electrical activity of the brain through eeg recordings and a recent technology is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) The brain responds with measurable electrical activity when stimulated. Biology is a fundamental component to the study of behaviour. The nervous system is living tissue composed of cells, which fall into two categories; glia and neurons: neurons are individual cells that receive, integrate and transmit information. They"re the basic links that permit communication within the system.