PNS
Peripheral Nervous System
What does PNS stand for?
Cogito ergo sum
I think therefore I am
What is Renee Descarte's famous quote?
A technique that captures only the physical image of a brain.
What is a structural technique?
Central Nervous System
What does CNS stand for?
To remove parts of the brain to observe which function the region was associated with.
What is ablation?
Responsible for controlling voluntary actions.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The belief that the mind and the body are one and the same. If you damage the brain, you damage the mind.
What is materialist monism?
Can be used to map specific functions of differing brain regions.
What is a functional imaging technique?
Responsible for controlling and regulating bodily processes necessary for survival.
What is the hindbrain?
Pierre Flourens
Responsible for controlling the automatic processes and actions such as heart and respiratory rate, blood pressure and digestion.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The belief that the body and mind are separate entities that interact.
What is dualism?
Because it is expensive and may cause claustrophobia.
Why would we not use MRI/fMRIs?
Responsible for sensations relating to skin (e.g. touch, pressure, pain, temperature)
What is the somatosensory cortex?
Although disproven, helped pave the way for future brain studies by proposing that differing parts of the brain are responsible for different functioning.
What is phrenology?
Is activated when a threat is perceived. Prepares the body for 'fight or flight'.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Gladiators with head injuries had impaired funcitoning.
What evidence supports Galen's approach?
Stands for FUNCTIONAL
What is the f in fMRI?
It is responsible for the creation of fluent speech.
What is Broca's Area?
A technique to stimulate brain regions during a wake procedure to then observe the role and purpose of that specific brain region.
What is electrical stimulation of the brain? (EBS)
Would activate if no stressors were present and an individual felt calm.
When would the parasympathetic nervous system activate?
Because if I did, that would be putting descarte before the horse.
Why didn't I explain Descarte before telling the joke?
Cannot be used to show the physical structure or image of the brain. Uses sensors that pick up electrical activity in the brain.
What is EEG?
Causes an individual to be able to speak fluently, however, the words spoken have little to no meaning.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
Franz Gall
Who founded phrenology?