Biopsychology

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Neurone

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Are nerve cells that process and transmit messages through electrical and chemical signals

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Localisation of function

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The theory that different areas of the brain are responsible for different behaviours, processes or activities

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Functional recovery

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A form of plasticity. Following damage through trauma, the brain’s ability to redistribute or transfer functions usually performed by a damaged area to undamaged areas

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Nervous system

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Consists of the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system

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Plasticity

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Describes the brain’s tendency to change and adapt (functionally and physically) as a result of experience and new learning

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Hemispheric lateralisation

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The idea that the 2 halves of the brain are functionally different and that certain mental processes and behaviours are mainly controlled by one hemisphere rather than the other

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Biological rhythms

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Distinct patterns of changes in body activity that conform to cyclical time periods. Influenced by internal body clocks and external changes to the environment