PSY318H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Central Nervous System, Traumatic Brain Injury, Temporal Lobe
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Traumatic brain injury (tbi) a wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head. 235, 000 are hospitalized and 50, 000 die: memory and attention are abilities that are required for effectively dealing with everyday problem solving, a mental skill referred to as executive function. Neuropsychology: the study of the relation between behaviour and brain function. It draws information from many disciplines: anatomy, biology, biophysics, ethology, pharmacology, physiology, physiological psychology, and philosophy among them. What is the brain: brain is an old english word for the tissue found within the skull. The brain has two almost symmetrical halves called hemispheres, one on the left side of the body and the other on the right. Taken as a whole, the basic plan of the brain is that of a tube filled with salty fluid called cerebrospinal fluid (csf) that cushions the brain and may play a role in removing metabolic waste.
