PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Phineas Gage, Frontal Lobe, Central Sulcus

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3403
• Professor: Tarry Ahuja

Document Summary

Rats and humans are very similar in brain function: neurons and their structure, what is a synapse , structure and morphology of a synapse, synaptic release and transmission, neurotransmitters (nts) Two sides of brain are connected by the corpus callosum. Skull: purpose is to protect, cavemen"s skull plates were much thicker than we typically see today. You write everything you know on it but eventually you reach a point that you can no longer write things on it. So you smoosh the paper up into a ball which now takes up much less space in the small box. ) *brain stem = important: called old brain because it was considered the first part to grow. The brain stem is involved with regulation of: respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, g. i. functioning, states of sleep / wakefulness, behavioral alerting, attention, arousal. These are considered automatic things the brain controls without you haven"t to consciously think about.