PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Executive Functions, Bulimia Nervosa, Behavioral Neuroscience
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Slide 32: there are strong genetic factors. Inability or lack of desire to control ones behaviour is going to bring in ones executive network as well. Slide 33: be able to explain how these brain networks contribute to things like anorexia, distorted self perception = default network, extreme motivation salience food cues = salience network. Inability to regulate or overregulation of behaviour = executive network. Feeling of cognitive control or dominance over your own fate deals with the serotonin system which is increased. Someone with depression or mood disorders you see a decrease: you do(cid:374)"t see a lot of re(cid:449)ard respo(cid:374)si(cid:448)e(cid:374)ess to food (cid:272)ues i(cid:374) a(cid:374)ore(cid:454)ia. Slide 35: anorexia is one of the disorders that will kill you directly. Slide 36: disconnection from ones body, you see a cultural effect, biological psychology, thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) our (cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:449)ill go (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g if (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t eat e(cid:374)ough.
