PSYB64H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: John Hughlings Jackson, Otto Loewi, Behavioral Neuroscience
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Chapter 1: what is behavioral neuroscience. Ancient milestones in understanding the nervous system: Study of microscopic structures and tissues. Tissues to be studied under the microscope must be prepared for a viewing in a series of steps: The edwin smith surgical papyrus: oldest medical writing; shows that people. Today we know that different processes are localized in different areas of the brain. But this was not known in gall"s time where the idea of localization of function was widely believed. Sherrington termed the word synapse. Make the tissue sturdy by "fixing" it via freezing or the use of formaldehyde. Viewed under the light or electron microscope. Mri is more advantageous to ct and. Pet because it canprovide images taken at any angel without any movement of the individual. Electroencephalogram (eeg)- measures human brain"s electrical activity. No information about anatomy, therefore it is used alongside mri.
