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Frontal Lobes
The Immune System
• A healthy brain and a healthy body
The Damaged Brain
• Lesion
• Stroke
Probing the Brain
• Recording techniques– Electroencephalograph (EEG)– Magnetoencephalography (MEG)
• Stimulation– Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
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)
Behavioral Genetics
• Heritability, not inheritability
• Twin studies– Monozygotic– Dizygotic– Adoption studies
Evolution and the Brain
• Natural selection: Reproduction of the fittest– Adaptation
The Major Endocrine Glands
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