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What Is Bio Psyche?

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How the brain interacts with body to control behavior

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What is the primary Focus of Bio Psych

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central nervous system (CNS)

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What is in the CNS?

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Brain and spinal cord, periphery nerves, synapse

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What happenes to Pnieas gage

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  • Rod went through head
    • passing 1 inch from his eye
    • trouble with communication after
    • he had great health after
    • but after the incident
    • his personality changed
    • had trouble regulating emotion
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What is Alzheimer’s Disease?

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  • neurocognitive disorder
  • neurodegenerative
  • develops into dementia
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What are symptoms of Alzheirmers?

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  • memory loss; misplacing things (emerges early)
  • poor or decreased judgment
  • problems with language
  • personality change (emerges later)
    -ATROPHY
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What is Atrophy?

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  • Brain Shrinkage
  • losing brain tissue
  • communication lost between neurons
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Where does Atrophy begin?

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  • begins in temporal lobes
  • tissue in temporal lobe shrinks
  • other areas are also impacted
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What causes Alzheirmers

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  • heritability 5%
  • head injuries
  • Down syndrome
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Limbic System

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  • ## plays a crucial role in psychology and emotional processing.
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PET Scan:

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  • radio active material injected
  • runs on glucose
  • we use our whole brain
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Neurogenesis

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Birth of new cells

  • Birds produce new cells
  • Very old adults too
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13
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Child brain grows by raising them in____

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A stimulating environment

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neglected children___

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have smaller brains

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Synaptic Pruning:

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Killing of unnecessary brain cells

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16
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What did Artistotle beleive about the mental process

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“emotions or mental process take place in the heart, the central part of the body” - Aristotle

17
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Explain Plato’s tripartite soul

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  • soul, mind, spirit, desires”
    • Brain
    • Chest
    • Belly
  • You need these 3 things to be balanced
18
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What did Galen beleive about the brain?

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“Brain is the origin of nerves”
“The watery interior of the brain was the repository of the mind”,
called it animal spirits

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What did Hippocrates believe about the brain

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  • relationship between physical state and illness,
  • “4 humors have to be in balance”
  • the four humors
20
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What are the four humours?

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  • Black Bile -> earth, spleen, cold dry
  • Yellow Bile -> fire, liver, choleric
  • Blood -> Air, heart, sanguine
  • Phlegm -> water, calm, deep thinkers
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What is Black bile

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earth, spleen, cold dry

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Yellow Bile

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fire, liver, choleric

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Blood

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Air, heart, sanguine

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Phlegm

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water, calm, deep thinkers

25
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Rene Descartes belief about nerves?

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“nerves are hollow tubes that carry animal spirits which contribute to movement.”

26
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Luigi Galvani test on frogs?

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could make frog’s leg twitch by adding electricity to the leg.

27
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What did pierre flourence do to rats?

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remove
parts of an animal brain to
see what happens

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Biological Explanations of Behavior

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  • Physiological
  • Ontogenetic
  • Evolutionary
  • Functional
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Physiological

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relates a behavior to the activity of the brain and other organs.

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Ontogenetic

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describes how something develops

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Evolutionary

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reconstructs the evolutionary history of a structure or behavior

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Functional

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describes why a structure or behavior evolved as it did

33
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What are Glial

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  • Glial cells are support cells
  • 10-50x more glial cells than # of neurons
34
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When is the most dramatic growth of brain growth?

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withtin first 2 years

35
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Paul Broca

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  • Broca (1861) first to confirm anatomically that
    the left frontal lobe is concerned with speech
36
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Werneikie’s area

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  • speech production. without this part = word salad
37
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What are cells?

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Cells are discrete entities

  • Cells don’t touch even though they’re close

Flow from dendrites to terminals

38
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Nodes of Ranvier

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Influx of chemicals through gaps

39
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5 Functions of Neurons

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  • Receive signals from neighboring neurons
  • Integrate signals
  • Give rise to nerve pulses
  • Conduct pulses
  • Transmit pulses to other neurons

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