PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Evoked Potential, Liposuction, Microtome
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Intro course stuff: quiz at 9 o clock on week 3! Link will be posted on blackboard: www. dayone. nelson. com/students. = for study tips/other resources: textbook tax credit on income taxes! You qualify for each month that you took full-time courses: you won"t be asked for dates! * we don"t spend much time on addiction/drugs and the brain. Historical perspectives: trepanation, descartes reflex theory, phrenology sham. Fact and fiction slides: some human nerve cells are 3 meters long (ex. Feet to spinal cord: nerve impulses travel at less than the speed of light, more people die each year from the use of legal drugs vs illegal drugs, not only humans ingest mind-altering substances (ex. It is true that some animal species have all females. Research methods: histology: cutting slices of brain and observing with microtome machine, specialized stains, golgi stain (only stains 1/700 cells and we don"t know why only this cell is stained).
