PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Loligo, Motor Neuron, Behavioral Neuroscience
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The core concept is that the brain of a person with epilepsy has a chronically low seizure threshold and so is subject to recurrent seizures. Drawing in behavioural neuroscience (350 years old: the most reproduced picture, the first serious attempt to explain how information travels through the nervous system. 4. 1 searching for electrical activity in the nervous system. Electricity is the flow of electrons from a body that contains a higher charge (more electrons) to a body that contains a lower charge (fewer electrons). When biological tissue contains an electrical charge, the charge can be recorded; if living tissue is sensitive to an electrical charge, the tissue can be stimulated. In power source, negatively charged electrons are attracted to the positive pole because opposite charges attract. The electrons on the negative pole have the potential to flow to the positive pole. This electrical potential, or electrical charge, is the ability to do work using stored electrical energy.
