PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Traumatic Brain Injury, Pineal Gland, Spinal Cord
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Chapter 1: origins of brain and behaviour (b&b) Clinical focus: living with traumatic brain injury (tbi) How tbi effects ur brain as well as ur daily behaviour. Tbi: wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head. How brain is organised to produce behaviour, evidence comes from studying 3 sources: evolution of studying b&b in diverse animal species, how brain is related to behaviour in typical ppl, how brain changes in ppl with brain injuries. 3 reasons for linking the study of brain and behaviour: how brain produces behaviour is an unanswered scientific question. How understanding brain func be useful in many terms such as in education, economic and social systems: bain is most common organ in many animal groups, behavioural disorders can be treated with increase knowledge of brain. Brain: is an anglo saxon word (tissue in the skull.
