PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Limbic System, Reticular Formation, Wolverine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Module 5: tools of discovery and older brain structures (reading. The brain enables the mind seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, remembering, When were thinking about our brain, we"re thinking with our brain by firing across millions of synapses and releasing billions of neurotransmitter molecules thinking, speaking, dreaming. The effect of hormones on experiences such as love reminds us that we would not be of the same mind if we were a bodiless brain: body + brain = mind. The mind is what the brain does. Brain, behavior, and cognition are an integrated whole. The tools of discovery: having our head examined (how do neuroscientists study the brain"s connections to behavior and mind? (cid:524) explore the living human brain. A century ago, scientists had no tools high-powered yet gentle enough to: early clinical observations by physicians and others revealed some brain-mind connections.