PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multiple Sclerosis, Resting Potential, Myelin

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Sandra witelson, who is a researcher of brains was given albert einstein"s brain. She found out that the wider parietal region toward the top and back of the brain and a distinct sylvian fissure separating the frontal lobe from the temporal lobe. Witelson speculated that these differences made sense in light of einstein"s intellect and approach to science: visuospatial cognition, mathematical thought, and imagery of movement are strongly dependent on this region. Einstein"s exceptional intellect in these cognitive domains and his self-described mode of scientific thinking may be related to the atypical anatomy in his inferior parietal lobules . Work on einstein"s brain continues, suggesting, among other things, that his primary motor and somatosensory areas were distinctive and that as a ratio he had more glial cells per neuron than the average male in the left parietal lobe. Nervous tissue: the basic hardware: the cells in the nervous system fall into two major categories: glia and neurons.