Test 1 Flashcards
Aggregate Field Theory
- cant break everything down in to parts
- whole brain is involved in different functions
- Theory of mass action (Lashley) helped this theory (size of lesion mattered, not the placement)
Localization of Function
- phrenology (turned out to be made up)
- each section has specific task
- Fritz & Hitzig-dog experiment (stimulated side of brain)-found left hem controls right side of body
- Broca (Broca’s Area damage = aphasia (language imparment)—found that we speak with the left side of our brain
- doctrine of Nerve Energies (Muller)
Corpus Callosum
large bundle of nerve fibers that connects two sides of the brain together
Behavioral Neuroscience
Experimental method of psych and physiology
- goal is to explain what is being studied
- explanation included either a general or reduction (simpler phenomono to describe
Reflexes
descartes
-automatic movement produced directly to a stimuli
Left Hemisphere
- verbal, language
- individual parts
- operates like a thin flashlight
- causality
Right Hemisphere
- spatial processing
- whole “face’
- operates like a broad searchlight
Unilateral Neglect
right side of the brain is damaged and suffer problems with left side (only see and focus on the right side )
-Video of women drawing pictures and only draws half
Anagnogsosia
right hemisphere damage and suffers in difference to left side and also denying his disability (guy in hospital bed with mirror)
Microtone
allows to separate sections of the organ
Golgi
- stain guy
- silver cromate (1% of nerons gets stained) is the outer membrane gettting stained
Neuron Doctrine
- neuron is the fundamental unit of nervous system
- Neurons are for information processing
- found by Cajal
Split Brain Operation
cut the corpus callosum due to treat epilepsy
Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies
- muller’s idea
- shows that different parts of the brain perform different functions
- the message that all nerves carry is the same so the channel receiving the message must be different
Lashly’s Theory of Mass Action
lesion is a section of neurons that you damage in the brain
- performed lesions in rats to see what the effect was
- found location of the lesion did not matter but the size did
- thought to be an arguemnt for Aggregate Field Theory
Sensory Neuron
incoming axon
part of reflex
Motor Neuron
outgoing axon
part of reflex
reflex
made up of sensory and motor neurons
Broca
studied aphasin patients (language impairment)
realized that had a specific spot (broca’s area) that was damaged
left side of brain controls language/ speech
Werniche
studied receptive aphasia patients
all had damage on left side of brain (Werniche’s area)
further proved locatization of function
Central Nervous System (Brain and Spinal Cord)
grey matter (cell bodies, dentrites, synapes)
-Tract (bundles of myelinated axons)
- Nucleus
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Peripheral Nervous System
outside of brain and spinal cord, including the nerves attached
- Ganglion (clusters of cell bodies)
- nerve
Meninges
3 layers of connective tissue
- dura matter-tough
- Arachnoid Layer-softer
- Pia Matter
Subarachnoid Space
inbetween the arachnoid and pia matter in Meninges
containst C.S.F. (Cerebrospinal Fluid): is a protective cushion
Cerebrospinal Fluid
comes from ventricles
-is produced in the choroid plexus (in ventricles)
Ventricles
hollow spaces in the brain that are filled with cerebraspinal fluid
- lateral ventricle (one of two ventricles located in the telencephalon)
- third ventricles (ventricle located in the center of diencephalon)
- fourth ventricles (located between the cerebellum and the dorsal pons, center of the metencephalon)