PSY 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neurotransmitter, Radio Frequency, Psy

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 312
• Professor: beckmann

Document Summary

Psy 312 lecture 9 methods and strategies of research. Specific in the way that you can move the wire to any part of the brain: excitotoxic. Insert wire into particular set of coordinates: apparatus, device used to position an electrode or cannula in a specified position of the brain. Sham lesion: a "placebo" procedure that duplicates all the steps of producing a brain lesion except for the one that actually causes the brain damage. Insert electrode into brain to destroy part of a rat"s hippocampus: apply electrical current. In a sham lesion, you do everything the same, but don"t turn the wire on: why, verifying location of ablation - histological methods, controlled comparison, atlas based on general brain. Fixative: a chemical such a formalin, used to prepare and preserve body tissue, formalin, aqueous solution of formaldehyde gas, most commonly used tissue fixation. Staining: chemical used to highlight neurons and neural structures.