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Selye

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GAS => ARE

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Gall

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Phrenology

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Rene Descartes

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Dualism

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Paul Broca

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studied tans brain, broca’s area, speech center

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Carl Wernicke

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discovered wernicke’s area; for spoken language comprehension

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Jose Delgado

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ESB bulls brain, invasive techniques

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Roger Sperry

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split brain researcher, severed corpus callosum to stop seizures, nobel prize winner.

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Michael Gazzaniga

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current split brain researcher

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Genie

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Girl found in extremely impoverished environment, (13 years). Her left brain was very underdeveloped and her right took over many functions of the left, plasticity.

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Wilder Penfield

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ESB on humans

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James Olds

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discovered pleasure center

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Walter Cannon

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Fight or flight

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H.M.

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doctors accidently removed entire hippocampus. Henry Molaison. had both anterograde and retrograde amnesia (89,90) also lost medial hippocampus.

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Clive Wearing

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damaged hippocampus from encephalitis (92) also suffered both anterograde and retrograde amnesia (89,90)

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Phineas Gage

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Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury, localization

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Robert Sapolsky

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baboons, keekorak tribe, rank v. stress. Also fight v flight.

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Marmot

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whitehall study social hierarchy relating to stress.. british social services with universal healthcare

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Carol Shively

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macack monkeys social hierarchy on dopamine and body fat, clogged arteries. dopamine in hierarchy. control.

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James Pennebaker

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PNI. health and writing style, TAT creator, expressive writing

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Robert Ader

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father of PNI. Placebo on rats. demonstrated mind-body connection

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Marion Diamond

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enriched/impoverished environment, rat experiment, longer life and more cortical thickness

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Tessa Roseboom

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dutch hunger winter, chronic stress hormones affect fetuses.

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Bruce McEwen

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mice, can stress make you stupid?, shortened dendrites

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Shelly Taylor

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Tend and befriend, oxytocin

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Elizabeth Blackburn

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Telomeres unravel in stress, chronic stress, faster aging, telomerase heals/lengthens telomeres, from oxytocin

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Abigail Baird

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teen v adult decision making.

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Jay Giedd

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Teenage IQ study

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Chris Nowinski

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Harvard/Football/Wrestling - Concussion research

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David Snowden

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nun study, early stress on rest of life

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John Money

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sex-reassignment of David Reimer

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David Reimer

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Canadian man born biologically male but reassigned as a girl

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V.S. Ramachandran

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Guy who talked about mirror neurons

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Tan

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Victor Louis LaBourne (1861) had a neurosyphilitic lesion in one side of the brain (broca’s area) which controlled speech. could only say “tan”, could write normally, died soon after

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Simon LeVay

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Studied HIV positive deceased brains (post-mortem study). Gay men’s hypothalamus smaller than usual, resembles a women’s.

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Julien LeMettrie

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when the body is sick, you don’t think straight. Materialist

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Eleanor maguire

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London taxi study.16 taxi and 50 taxiless right handed males. 2 years work. Posterior hippocampus growth. Anterior shrinkage

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Eric kandel

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Synapses in memory and learning

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Thomas Bouchard

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Minnesota twin study 1979. Genetic v environmental influences on development. Longitudinal

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Bennet omalu

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Concussions.

CTE. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

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Oliver sacks

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The man who mistook his wife for a hat. Visual agnosia.

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Giacomo Rizzolati

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Discovered mirror neurons. Monkey holding peanut= human holding peanut.

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Jill bolte - Taylor

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Had a huge stroke and 8 year recovery. Switched main brain usage. Left to right brain.

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Hetherington and Ranson

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Hypothalamus in rats. Lesions ventromedial hypothalamus. Food intake increased greatly

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