PSYB64H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Umbilical Cord, The Technique, Extracellular Fluid
12 May 2016
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Incorporates the fields of psychology, biology, chemistry, medicine, mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science. Neuroscience: scientific study of the brain and nervous system, in health and in disease. Strive to understand the function of the brain and ns across molecular, cellular, synaptic, neural networks, computational , and behavioral approaches. Biological neuroscience (a. k. a. biological psychology): the study of the biological foundations of behavior emotions, and mental processes. Rene descartes argued in favor of mind-body dualism: philosophical perspective in which the body is mechanistic, whereas the mind is separate and nonphysical the mind is neither physical not accessible to study through the physical sciences. Modern neurosciences are based on monism: philosophical perspective in which the mind is viewed as the product of activity in the brain. Work by luigi galvani and emil du bois-reymond conducted experiments with frogs helped establish understanding of the electrical nature of neural communication.
