PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Parietal Lobe, Autonomic Nervous System, Simple Features
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It was an unusual night, even for the late shift in the hospital emergency room. Seventeen-year- old david saw people who weren"t there and 75-year-old betty saw, but didn"t recognize, her own husband. They discovered he was suffering from hallucinations a side effect of abusing methamphetamine. David"s prolonged crystal meth habit had altered the normal functioning of some chemicals in his brain, distorting his perception of reality and fooling his brain into perceiving things that were not actually there. Doctors diagnosed betty with a rare disorder called prosopagnosia, which is an inability to recognize familiar faces a result of the brain damage caused by her stroke. The anticipation you have, the happiness you feel, and the speed of your feet are the result of information processing in your brain. In a way, all of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors spring from cells in the brain that take in information and produce some kind of output trillions of times a day.
