PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Central Nervous System, Traumatic Brain Injury, Peripheral Nervous System
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The brain is a physical object, a living tissue, a body organ. Behaviour is action, momentarily observable, but fleeting. Three (3) reasons that link brain and behaviour: how the brain produces behaviour is a major unanswered scientific question. Brainstem: central structure of the brain responsible for most unconscious behaviour. Major divisions of the human nervous system are composed of nerve cells, or neurons, which directly control behaviour by communicating with one another, with sensory receptors in the skin, with muscles, and with internal body organs. Central nervous system (cns): comprised of the brain and the spinal cord. Peripheral nervous system (pns): comprised of all neurons located outside the brain and spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the central nervous system. Edmond jacobson: believed that, even though we are motionless when we think, we make subliminal movements related to our thoughts: asked people to practise total relaxation; these individuals reported a condition of.
