The Nervous system (Week 1) Psychology Bsc

Psychology and the Brain: Week 1


The Nervous system: Gross anatomy (part 1)
Body system: group of organs or tissues that work together to perform a specific set of functions

The Nervous
System (Fig.2)


Peripheral
Central Nervous
Nervous System
System (CNS)
(PNS)



Brain Spinal Cord Motor Neurons Sensory Neurons



Somatic Nervous Autonomic
System Nervous System



Sympathetic Parasympathetic
Nervous System Nervous System


-Forebrain-Blue
-Midbrain-red
-Hindbrain- yellow (cerebellum)




Forebrain:

Telencephalon: Diencephalon:
 Cerebral cortex  Thalamus
 Basal Ganglia  Hypothalamus
 Limbic system

, Psychology and the Brain: Week 1


Midbrain: Hindbrain:
Metencephalon: Myelencephalon:
Mesencephalon:
 Cerebellum  Medulla
 Tectum
 Pons oblongata
 Tegmentum


Lobes:




- Korbinan Brodmann- father of neuro
- Divided brain (cortex) into areas

Functions of structures in the cortex: