PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Hindbrain, Motor Control

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Patrick Carolan

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75% on unit 3, 25% on unit 4. Using google scholar and find that specific research paper (already cited) Motor neurons and muscles; attention and memory. Voluntary movement; anticipation of reward (not experience of reward) Feelings of euphoria similar to morphine, heroin, other narcotics. Agonist: drug that enhances the function of that neurotransmitter. Protagonist: drug that decreases the function of the given type of neurotransmitter: presynaptic membrane (sending signal to synapse, neurotransmitter storage, synthesis or release, eg. Amphetamines (adderall, dexedrine, meth: postsynaptic membrane (receiving signal, receptor activation and availability, bind with ion channels, synaptic breakdown, eg. Monoamine oxidase (mao) inhibitors: synaptic reuptake, reuse later, eg. The nervous system; endocrine system; brain structure, function, evolutions. Peripheral nervous system (spinal cord to rest of body: autonomic (fight or flight, sympathetic (emergency & mobilization, parasympathetic (rest/relaxation, somatic (sensation & voluntary control, afferent (incoming, efferent (outgoing) Sagittal = cutting vertical (seeing the side) Movement and arousal based on sensory inputs.