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Biopsychology - Coggle Diagram
Biopsychology
The nervous system
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Neurotransmitters: Excitatory increase likelihood that an electrical impulse will be triggered in postsynaptic neuron. Inhibitory decrease likelihood
Dopamine : helps with movement, attention and learning, too much - schizophrenia, too little - depression
Noradrenaline : Associated with the fight or flight response, too much is linked to schizophrenia, too little - depression
Serotonin : Emotion, sleep, mood and eating, tooo little - depression
Localisation of function
The brain
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Somatosensory cortex : Touch, pain, temperature, position of the body
Left hemisphere : Broca's and wernickes area, responsible for language and logic, analysis and problem solving
Right hemisphere : Spatial comprehension, emotions and face recognition
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Split brain surgery: in severe cases of epilepsy, corpus callosum is severed to stop seizure spreading across hemispheres
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