PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Neural Crest, Neural Groove
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Going to build an extension on the second assignment. How can experience changes our brain: post traumatic stress disorder. Margaret was in a plane that had to land in an emergency (everyone thought they were going to die) however everyone lives. Not she has ptsd along with 50% of the people on that plane: experience is continually shaping how our brain functions as we go through life, there are also positive events that shape our brain. 1 cell: early form of the embryo, conceptus, every differential features we have starts with 1 cell, and then divides as you grow and develop, cells are beginning to take shape (cell proliferation (end point of. Blastocyst) from this process, a body and a brain begins to develop. 37 trillion cells within our bodies they need to form structures, make connections and decide what they want to be. Our body has over 200 cell types: photoreceptors, skin cells, red blood cells, tissue, taste buds.
