HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mood Disorder, Mania, Nonverbal Communication

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1101
• Professor: James Gomes

Document Summary

Encompasses the social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual dimensions of health. Central nervous system: spinal chord and brain. Peripheral nervous system: nerves outside the central nervous system: affecters: send impulses about sensory stimuli from periphery to the central nervous system, effectors: send impulses from the central nervous system to peripheral tissues. Process of transmitting information: electrical wave spreads down the neuron, neurotransmitters are released into the synapse. Prefrontal area: contributes to personality and the regulation of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors: allows you to focus your attention, solve problems, analyze, make decisions, judge situations, and predict outcomes based on available data. It suppresses urges arising from lower brain areas. Principle of neural plasticity brain can change response to experiences. Principles of brain development: brain develops form (inner to outer layers) (more primitive to a more sophisticated area) Psychological (emphasis on psychological factors, such as early childhood experience and self-concept) Social (emphasis on interpersonal relationships and social environment)