PSYC 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pineal Gland, Behavioral Neuroscience, Expressive Aphasia
19 Feb 2016
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Biological psychology: seeks to explain behaviour in terms of its underlying physiology, it"s development, it"s evolution, and it"s function (how behaviour is effected) Most are located in your cerebellum (two hemispheres in the back of the brain) - movement. More neurons in the cortex of the human brain in comparison to other species. Synapses: forms of contact (10 to the power of 13 - 10 to the power of 15) - quadrillion. More potential paths for neurons than the amount of particles in the universe. We lose about a neuron every second (5,000 a day, 31,500,000 a year) If your neurons were the size of a grain of sand, it would fill a whole football field. Neurology: treatment of neurosystem disorder (overlaps with psychiatry) Psychophysiology: relation of behaviour to changes in physiological measurements, such as. Neuroendincrinology: study of hormones on the nervous system and behaviour.
