PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ventromedial Nucleus Of The Hypothalamus, Thyroid, Insulin

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Neurotransmitters (5: dopamine, very common neurotransmitter in the brain, parkinson"s disease, partially caused by a deficiency of dopamine, very important in the coordination of movement (explains the, schizophrenia tremors) Alzheimer"s: endorphins, involved in pain regulation, when injured, the body naturally releases these endorphins to help manage the pain, discovered through heroin and morphine, which mimic this neurotransmitter. Injury to the brainstem is fatal: controls all the vital functions (crucial even though it is very, the limbic system small, controls motivation and emotion, very important for memory, cerebral cortex, separates us from animals (much bigger) Important in the production of many necessary hormones: hypothalamus, crucial for hunger, controls the hormones of the pituitary gland (ex. puberty, some influences on other emotions, such as pleasure, amygdala. Involved in language and special recognition, among many other things: temporal lobe. Involved in hearing, memory, and mood: hippocampus sits right behind it, frontal lobe (very important)