PSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Radiography, Locus Coeruleus, Endocannabinoid System
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Looking at behavior at multiple levels of analysis. Circuit level (how neurons work together to generate behavior) Neural systems level (how is your brain area working with the sensory organs to generate interactions) Social level (how are individuals interacting with each other to alter the activity in these neural systems, which then filter all the way down to synaptic/molecular levels) Social level: exposure to pups (proximate cues like squeeking and smelling of the pups) will actually change gene expression and activity of neural circuits (change mother"s brain) Circuit level: maternal behavior circuit: alters neural circuits (olfactory bulb, amygdala, hypothalamus) Cellular and molecular levels: hormones bind the receptors and alter gene expression (ex. estrodiol binds to receptors turning on/off sets of genes molecular changes influence how circuits work) There are many similarities in brain structure and function, as well as similarities in behavior there are many similarities in brain structure and function, as well as similarities in behavior.
