PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Influenza-Like Illness, Seat Belt, Corpus Callosum

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500
• Professor: Tina Daniels

Document Summary

Many diseases that kill young children are preventable. Home visits by health care provider in first week of life. Children have at least six times greater chance of survival in the early months than non-breastfed children. An exclusively breastfed child is 14 times less likely to die in the first six months than a non-breastfed child, and breastfeeding drastically reduces deaths from acute respiratory infection and diarrhea, two major child killers. Accidents leading cause of death in na over 1 yr. of age. Youth 15-24 car crash leading cause of death. In the u. s. , firearms are a leading cause of death among teenage boys. Frontal cortex: area of the cortex that controls personality and the ability to carry out plans. Cerebral hemispheres: right and left halves of the cortex. Corpus callosum: connects the two cerebral hemispheres. 4. 3 the basic parts of a neuron. Cell body: houses the essential biological processes.