PSY 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Central Nervous System, Temporal Lobe, Occipital Bone

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 405
• Professor: Jamie Edgin

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The brain: what is the main function of dna: it stores information for protein synthesis. Emo philips: i used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then i realized who was telling me this. Science of the brain is wrought with one big problem. We all have on and a lot of opinions about how it probably works. Central nervous system (cns: brain, spinal cord. Peripheral nervous system (pns: cranial nerves and ganglia, spinal nerve and ganglia, includes portions of the autonomic nervous system. Dendrites, nucleus, cell body, impulses carried toward cell body (soma), axon, impulses carried away from cell body, branches of axon, axon terminals. 2 nucleus, 3 dendrite, 1 neuron (cell body), 4 astrocyte (glial cell), 5 axon, 6 oligodendrocyte (glial cell), 7 axon terminals. Makes up large nuclei and the thin outer layer of the cortex.