PSY 0010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sympathetic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (cte) is a form of progressive brain damage that has been linked to repeated concussions. The symptoms of ctw and the havoc they can wreak in the lives of affected individuals and their families, are stark reminders that our psychological, emotional, and social well-being depends critically on the health and integrity of the brain. The more we know about the brain, the better our chances of finding solutions to problems such as cte. Neuron: the basic unit of information provessing in the brain: the electrical and chemical activities of neurons are the starting point of all behavior, thought, and emotion. There are approximately 100 billion nerve cells in your brain that perform a variety of tasks to allow you to function as a human being. 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: these cells are neurons.
