Frontal Lobes

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Frontal Lobes
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The Immune System

• A healthy brain and a healthy body

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The Damaged Brain

• Lesion
• Stroke

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Probing the Brain

• Recording techniques
• Electroencephalograph (EEG)
• Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
• Stimulation
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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Probing the Brain

• Neuroimaging Picturing the living brain
• Visualizing brain structure
• Computer-assisted tomography (CT)
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Visualizing brain function
• Positron emission tomography (PET)
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

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Behavioral Genetics

• Heritability, not inheritability
• Twin studies
• Monozygotic
• Dizygotic
• Adoption studies

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Evolution and the Brain

• Natural selection Reproduction of the fittest
• Adaptation

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The Major Endocrine Glands
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