PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Prefrontal Cortex, Brain Size, Amygdala
6 Apr 2016
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Elizabeth redcay developmental social cognitive neuroscience lab. Diagnosis: it is one disorder but could it be the relationship between multiple but manifests as one. Treatment: what treatments can mediate the behavioral manifestations, different treatments for different people. Differences in the subsets of populations that have higher percentages of autism. Use info from animals that have similar cellular mechanisms from animals where we. Chart behaviors over time have more control in conditions. Cant take the complex manifestation and say that it comes from one specific gene. Looking at charted development of brain over time. Some signs come up as early as first or second year of life. First year: looking at people, responding to own name. Most things come out in second year in life. Can we use something more reliable than diagnosing in the second year of life. Prosody: inflections in voice (may be louder or talk high or low) Changes in head size in first year of life.
