PSYB64H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Positron Emission Tomography, Diffusion Mri, Franz Nissl
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Neuroscience: the scientific study of the brain and nervous system in health and in disease. Behavioural neuroscience/biological psychology: the study of the biological foundations of behaviour, emotions, and mental processes. Mind-body dualism: a philosophical perspective put forward by rene. Descartes in which the body is mechanistic, whereas the mind is separate and nonphysical. Monism: a philosophical perspective characteristic of the neurosciences in which the mind is viewed as the product of activity in the brain. Phrenology: the misguided effort to correlate character traits with bumps in the skull. Histology: the study of cells and tissues at the microscopic level. Microtome: a device used to make very thin slices of tissue of histology. Golgi silver stain: a stain developed by camilo golgi used to observe single neurons. Nissl stain: a stain used to view populations of cell bodies. Myelin stain: a stain used to trace neural pathways.
