Summary Lectures and tasks body and behaviour

BODY AND BEHAVIOUR
Tasks and lectures

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Lecture 1: Introduction ............................................................................................................... 2
Task 1 ......................................................................................................................................... 4
Task 2 ........................................................................................................................................12
Lecture 2: Anatomy ...................................................................................................................21
Lecture 3: Electrophysiology and neurotransmission ...............................................................24
Task 3 ........................................................................................................................................30
Task 4 ........................................................................................................................................45
Lecture 4: Research methods of biological psychology ...........................................................52
Task 5 ........................................................................................................................................54
Lecture 5: Homeostasis ............................................................................................................66
Task 6 ........................................................................................................................................69
Task 7 ........................................................................................................................................78
Lecture 6: Clinical neuropsychology .........................................................................................86
Task 8 ........................................................................................................................................89




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,Lecture 1: Introduction
Introduction:
Example: it influences your hormones  having your period, having a brain tumor, eating junk food, taking anabolic steroids.
What happens in your body influences your behaviour. But your behaviour and your thoughts also influence your body
experiences.

How much of our brain do we use?
- Myth that we only use 10%
o If we just train that other 90%
o A few minutes of training a day
o The other 90% is psychic
- Knowledge
o Brain is expensive
o Brain damage is bad
o Neurosurgery, EEG, PET, fMRI finds no silent areas
o Neural regeneration

100 billion cells in the body

How much power does your brain use? 20 watts

Course:
Levels of explanation:
- Brain areas
- The cells
- The way cells communicate
- The ways to look at brains and cells
Apply to:
- Moving, sleeping, eating and sex, drugs and …

Neural levels:
Levels of analysis 1:
- Social (oxytocin  hormone)  how humans interact is important
- Organ (stomach and heart?) lots of organs influence our behaviour/brain directly
- Neural system: Eye – LGN – V1
- Circuit (layers and columns of cortex)  there are structures
- Cell: axon – dendrite – soma
- Synapse: neurotransmitters – synapse
- Molecule: membrane receptors
Levels of analysis 2:
- Brain regions
o Lobes: frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal
o Hemispheres
o Sulci and gyri
o Cortex
o Grey matter
o White matter
- Circuit level
o Columns
 Motor cortex
o Layer
 Sensory cortex
o Integrative functions
o Input of sensory information
o Output to other parts of the brain
o 6 layers of cortex
- Cellular level
o Dendrite
o Soma
o Axon
- Synaptic level




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, Practical anatomy:
From whom is this brain?
- Cat
- Kangaroo
- Monkey
- Human
- Frog
- Walnut

Practical information
Warning:
- Multiple books and no guide
- Some biological knowledge assumed
- Factual knowledge and insight … lots of hard work
- New horizons will open
- It is do-able if you work hard

Meetings:
- 8 problems, 9 meetings, mandatory attendance, miss 2
- 6 lectures, will be uploaded automatically

Assessment:
- 1 practical, has deadline, 15th of November
- 1 exam, personalized multiple-choice, problems + lectures
o 48 questions in total
 24 mandatory questions in total
 3 mandatory questions per problem
o 24 distributable questions in total  but you decide on forehand
 Maximum of 5 distributable questions per problem
- Subjects: anatomy, action potential, neurotransmission, methods, sensori-motor, sleep, homeostasis and brain-damage

What is part of the next exam?
- Problem, learning goals
- Certainly but not exclusively: 2 of 3 books, e-readers, lectures
- Unclear: follow-up learning goals
- Student forums
- Ask me after every lecture

Books:
- Biological psychology (breedlove  figures)
- Psychology of behaviour (Carlson  deep)
- Biological psychology (Pinel  stories)
 No best book
 Very good to own one
 Read one scan the other for each task
o Not necessarily a whole chapter

Canvas:
- Video!
- Lectures
- Just-on-time
- Padlet

Practical virtual anatomy
- PC, Mac OS, iOS, YouTube
- Do in the first 2 weeks!
- See the manual for the deadline (15th November)




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