PSYC18H3 Chapter : Chapter Six
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Some striatal system transmitter functions were restored. They experienced awakenings and began to act spontaneously and schedule their daily activities. It gave rise to mood swings and emotions. Violent appetites and passions, and certain obsessive ideas/images. Movie pictures are constructed to show brain activity changing over time in the course of things like different emotional states. Includes regions that control basic physio processes: the medulla regulates cardiovascular activity, pons control sleep, cerebellum controls motor movement. Includes the thalamus which is involved in integrated sensory info: hippocampus memory processes, hypothalamus regulates biological functions + four f"s, limbic system has the cortex and structures involved in emotions like the amygdala. First theory of brain mechanisms of emotion was proposed by cannon. Bard indicated that cats deprived of their cortex made sudden, inappropriate and ill directed attacks: sham rage, led to cannon proposing that the cortex usually inhibits this expression.
