PSYCH 330 Lecture Notes - Prefrontal Cortex, Pseudoscience, Gene Expression

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 330
• Professor: Lori Astheimer Best

Document Summary

Includes study of the central nervous system (cns: brain and spinal cord. And peripheral nervous system (pns: nerves. Siblings and parents share 50% of heritable genes while you and your grandparents share about 25% Behavioral neuroscience is the study of the biology of behavior and experience. Experience can influence: gene expression, neuronal circuitry. Aphasia, deficit in ability to produce or comprehend language. Paul brocca (1824-1880)) realized that all of his patients had damage to prefrontal cortex of the left hemisphere.