Psychology 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroendocrinology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: Yves Bureau

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Neuroscience may prove to be the brain"s ultimate challenge: does the brain have the capacity to understand something as complex as itself? (2). Jimmie g: 49-year-old who believed he was still 19. Four major themes: thinking creatively about biopsychology. Stepping outside the box and looking at information in an unconventional way, rather than in the way fed to you by society. Study of diseased or damaged brain leads to new knowledge, hopefully to treat the dysfunction of the brain. New knowledge leads to new treatments: clinical implication, the evolutionary perspective, neuroplasticity. Consideration of environmental pressures on human evolution can tell us something about biopsychology. Comparative approach is often used: comparing humans to similar species (similar evolution). The brain is a plastic (changeable) organ that continuously grows and changes in response to the individual"s genes and experiences. Biopsychology: the scientific study of the biology of behaviour. It emerged as a discipline in the late 1940s o o.