PSYC18H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 book notes - Understanding Emotions
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N awakenings (1973) by oliver sacks describes treatment of survivors with sleeping sickness, a disease that started in europe, eventually spreading throughout the world. N such emotions, passions, and appetites, sexual and otherwise, were common with the administration of l- N hindbrain, includes regions that control basic physiological processes: medulla regulates cv activity, pons controls sleep, cerebellum involved in controlling motor movement. Forebrain: thalamus integrating sensory information, hippocampus critical for memory processes, hypothalamus behavior, aggression and bodily temperature. Limbic system amygdala (involved in emotions), and cortex (associated with abilities to lead complex social lives + planning and intentional action) N nerve messages are carried not by strings or hydraulics but by electric and chemical signals. N bard (1928) and deprivation of cortex in cats found they were liable to make sudden, inappropriate and ill- /70. 90/,99,. 8. ,0/8,27,0 proposed that the cortex inhibits this expression.
