PSY260H1 Lecture Notes - Basal Ganglia, Cranial Nerves, Functional Neuroimaging
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1: history in the text will be covered on test. Plasticity: basically flexibility / change-ability : neural plasticity: change in the fn or organization of neurons due to experience/previous activity. Changes in size, shape, firing power: synaptic plasticity: ability of synapses to change due to experience. How dif synapses form: allow us to bring changes in bhvr & fn, facilitates learning. Memory: allows us to keep a record of past experiences acquired thru learning. There are many ways to learn & many ways to store the memories of what is learned. These are topics that we will be discussing in this course. In 1985, due to a rare condition where herpes simplex virus infected his brain, he lost his memory: started w harsh persistent headaches for a few days fever swelling of brain. His hippocampus was permanently damaged: lost declarative memory destroyed in ppl who suffer amnesia, while procedural memory remains intact.
