MCELLBI C61 Chapter Notes -Traumatic Brain Injury, Peripheral Nervous System, Central Nervous System
6 Feb 2014
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Clinical focus 1-1: living with traumatic brain injury st century. Many must relearn old skills and compensate for impairments. Evidence of how brain is organized to create behavior. A. evolution of brain and behavior in diverse animal species. How the brain is related to behavior in normal people. C. how the brain changes in people who suffer brain damage or other brain abnormalities. The brain is a physical object and behavior is action, momentarily observable but fleeting. 3 reasons for linking study of brain to study of behavior: i. How the brain produces behavior is a major unanswered scientific question ii. The brain is the most complex living organ on earth and is found inmany different iii. A growing list of behavioral disorders can be explained and cured by understanding the groups of animals brain. Brain i. tissue found within in the skull ii.
