PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deep Brain Stimulation, Stimulant, Trait Theory
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Our brain is everything we are, feel, think and do. How do we study the brain: human neuroimaging (correlation, acquired brain injury, surgery, post-mortem, animal research. Animal research: results in knowledge/medicine to help with real world problems, provides a fundamental understanding of how our brains function, involves strict ethics boards, minimal harm standards. What can we learn from esb: how the reward" centers function, how the reward" centers malfunction. What can we study with esb: amphetamines and depression: Both psychostimulant withdrawal and depression are characterized by an inability to experience pleasure : nicotine. Nicotine administration can be positively reinforcing in humans and non-human animals, it potentiates esb: cocaine. Potentiates esb: psycho-biological personality trait: sensitivity to reward .