Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Somatic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

Document Summary

Real people, real disorder henry gustav molaison (h. m. : born in 1926, raised in connecticut, age 9 suffered head injury, age 16 developed epilepsy and grand mal seizures, could not save new long term memories. Surgery to remove hippocampus, suffered from amnesia: able to recall long-term memories that occurred before surgery. Ltm must go through the hippocampus to be stored. Neuroanatomy: temporal lobe -understanding auditory and verbal information, labelling of objects, and verbal memory, parietal lobe -integrates sensory information form various sources and may be involved with visuospatial processing, occipital lobe -centre of visual processing. Frontal lobe -reasoning, impulse control, judgement, language, memory, motor functioning, problem solving, and sexual/social behaviour: corpus callosum. Neurohormones and neurotransmitters: communication in the nervous system is both electrical and chemical, neurotransmitters -chemical substances that relay electrical signals between one neuron and the next. Field of psychiatry and the use of drug treatments.