GE CLST 73B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Midbrain, Motor Neuron, Microanalysis
29 Oct 2018
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Dancin" shakin" and locomotin": movement and the brain. What happens in the brain and nervous system. Descartes recognizes a large number of motions don"t depend on the mind. He also found waking action (sleeping digestion, nutrition. Respiration, walking) occur without the mind attending to them. Marie-jean-pierre flourens removed the cortex from pigeons. He found they wouldn"t fly or eat on their own. But if you threw them in the air they"d fly or if you put food in their mouth they"d swallow. They didn"t generate motion but they responded to stimuli. As he chipped away at the pigeons cerebellum the pigeon got drunk so he hypothesized the cerebellum was important for motor. The choreas or known as dancing disorders it was often considered to be the result of possession or witchcraft; sometimes called st. vinces dance. Huntington"s - shows up when you"re 30, 40 which means you probably already had children and you passed on the gene - genetic.
