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Emotion, stress, & reward

  • Biological perspectives on (e.g., Plutchik)
  • Acute vs. chronic stressors
  • Nodes in fear processing/stress network
  • Nodes in ‘reward’ network, and some key neurotransmittershttps://psu-psychology.github.io/psych-260-2021-fall/lectures/260-2021-10-26-emotion.html#30

Depression

  • Monoamine hypothesis and serotonin’s presumed role
  • Treatments for

Bipolar disorder

  • Treatments for
  • How differs from/similar to depression, schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

  • Symptoms of
  • Brain abnormalities
  • Dopamine hypothesis vs.
  • Glutamate hypothesis

Sensory systems

  • Topographic maps
  • Non-uniform sensitivity
  • Hierarchical processing (and thalamic relay)
  • Functional segregation
  • Receptor specialization]
  • Myelination, axon diameter & speed

Sensory systems

  • Primary sensory/motor areas in cortex
  • Receptive field size, cortical size, & sensory acuity

Somatosensation & pain

  • Touch, temperature, pain receptors in skin
  • Pathways to cortex

Neurophysiology

  • Events leading to neurotransmitter release

Brain evolution/development

  • Cortical size, brain size, human vs. other animals
  • Key pre/postnatal events in human brain development

Neuroanatomy

  • Cerebral ventricles
  • Lobes of the cerebral cortex