Lecture 13 Flashcards
What are the four F’s of the Limbic System?
- Feeding
- Fighting
- Fleeing
- Fucking
What are the 7 major components of the Limbic System?
My Cat Henry Ate Fish Chicken Liver
- Mammillary Body
- Corpus Callosum
- Hippocampus
- Amygdala
- Fornix
- Cerebellum
- Limbic Cortex
What does mothering behaviour do to the Amygdala?
increases receptors
What was found on Charles Whitman’s brain when he was autopsied?
a walnut sized tumor against his amygdala
What is the Amygdala’s main role?
coping with fear stimuli
What is Deep Brain Stimulation?
Electrodes implanted in the Subgenual Cingulate to stimulate
What does stress do to the brain?
the release of cortisol decreases the volume of the hippocampus which undermines the ability to deal with stress
What is the Frontal Cortex involved in?
- Organizing and Planning
- Problem Solving
- Inhibition
- Foresight
- Social Propriety
What do soccer players have deficits in and why?
Memory and Planning
Because of head injury (hitting ball with head)
What is the interesting case with a railroad worker?
Phineas Gage: Personality change
What does alcohol do to frontal lobe functioning?
decreases it
In spacial/non spatial tasks people who have depression do well when _______ hemisphere is involved and people with schizophrenia do well when ________ hemisphere is involved
Depression: do well with non-spatial (left hemisphere)
Schizophrenia: do well with spatial (right hemisphere)
Name 5 models of schizophrenia
- Cognitive
- Neurobiology
- Psychobiological
- Clinical Psychiatry (Thalamic Filtering)
- Cognitive Dysmetria
What are 6 risk factors for schizophrenia related to it being a neurodevelopmental disorder?
- Genetics
- Father’s Age
- Prenatal Viral Infection
- Mother’s Nutrition
- Difficult Birth
- Infant severe Illness
Why was Psychosis Risk Syndrome not included in the DSM-V?
Because of a high rate of false positives ranging from 50%-84%
