PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Language Processing In The Brain, Methamphetamine, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Psya01 chapter 3 : neuroscience and behavior. David was brought into the emergency room by his friends as he was seeing people and things that weren"t really there. Doctors didn"t find any problems with his eyes but instead discovered he was suffering from hallucinations, a side effect of abusing methamphetiamines. His 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. Although he complaining of problems with his vision, their symptoms were actually caused by disorders in the brain. Our ability to perceives the world around us and recognize familiar people depends not only on information we take in through our senses but, perhaps more importantly, on the interpretation of this information performed by the brain. 100 billion cells in your brain that perform a variety of tasks to allow you to function as a human being.
