Mapping the Brain chapter 1
Mapping the Brain What are the first 2 ways of studying the brain? Electrodes-Define –How so they study the brain? Electroencephalogram- Define –What is it compared to? Needle Electrodes- Define What is paradoxical about the brain?
Mapping the Brain (con’t) PET Scan (Positron Emission Tomography)- Define –How does it work? –What does it allow researchers to “see?”
Mapping the Brain (con’t) MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)- Define –Explain –Functional MRI- Explain
Mapping the Brain (con’t) What is the word of caution?
A Tour Through the Brain
Localization of Function-Define –Who originated it?
The Brain Stem Brain Stem- Define –2 main structures? Name and Define –Reticular Activating System-Define
Cerebellum Cerebellum- Define –What would happen if damaged? –Why is it not as “lesser” as thought?
Thalamus Thalamus- Define –Examples –Which sense bypasses the thalamus? –Olfactory Bulb- Define
Limbic System
Hypothalamus and Pituitary Gland Hypothalamus- Define Pituitary Gland- Define –Explain James Olds and Peter Milner Experiment and its findings? Limbic System- Define –Example Jobs?
Amygdala Amygdala- Define –Example
Hippocampus Hippocampus- Define –Jobs? –H.M.- Explain story and findings- –Consolidation- Define
Limbic System
Cerebrum Cerebrum- Define What has the cerebrum done for humans? Cerebral Hemispheres- Define Corpus Collosum- Define Lateralization- Define
Cerebrum (con’t) The Cerebral Cortex- Define –How thick? –How many cells? –Why wrinkles?
Cerebrum (con’t) Lobes of the Cortex –4 lobes per hemisphere Occipital Lobes- Explain Parietal Lobes- Explain Temporal Lobes- Explain Frontal Lobes- Explain
Cerebrum (con’t) Association Cortex- Explain Prefrontal Cortex- Explain –Size in rats, dogs, and humans? –Explain Phinease Gage- Event, Changes, What it means?
The Two Hemispheres of the Brain
Split Brains: A House Divided Normal Brain? 1953? Explain Study and Finding 1960’s? Explain Surgery and Findings –Explain the Experiment
The Two Hemispheres: Allies or Opposites? Language Left side Left hemisphere dominance? –Example Right hemisphere importance?