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?