Psych 202 1st Eition Lecture 19 -Discussion of Sack’s Cases-Hands: MadelineoCerebral palsy, blind and incapacitatedoNothing wrong with sense of touch-Called her hands "useless godforsaken lumps of dough"oHer parents did everything for her so she never attempted to try to use her hands, until she went in a nursing home-They put her food just out of reach-They she began to make art-Witty Ticcy RayoTourette's-Symptoms: motor tics, profane language-Haldol: antipsychotic medicationDopamine antagonist-Blocks the postsynaptic dopamine receptors-Cupid's Disease: Natasha These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.oWas feeling very friskyoHad syphilis at an early age, symptoms only showing now-Cognitive changesoStayed that way until she died-The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Dr. PoProblem of perception, not sensory problemoSymptoms: at doctor's office and was looking for his hat and grabbed wife's hat, mistook shoe for foot, he couldn’t get big picture, he knew he needed help and that something wasn’t quite rightoHe hummed a lotoHe was asked to take a walk of his town in his mind by Dr. Sacks-He only described things on the right side -- left side of brainVisual processingLeft side of brain: language, detail, small picture, articulate pieces of things, parts not whole; left side of his brain is working fineRight side of brain: face recognition, making sense of small bits into a larger meaning-This side didn’t work well for him-The Disembodied Lady: ChristinaoObstruction of neurons associated with proprioception perceptionoShe was going to have operation and they gave her a big dose of antibiotics beforehand-Sometimes the antibiotics cause problemsoDiagnosis: sensory neuritis -- something wrong with sensory nerves (proprioception nerves specifically), loss a sense of body wholeness-Took her longer to do things, stumbling around-Trained herself to focus and learn to compensate for her slow moving problem with her eyes-On the Level: Mr. McGregoroParkinson's-From low dopamine (control of movement), deterioration of basal ganglia -- substantia nigra (function is movement)-L-dopa: precursor to dopamineoMade glasses with different levels to train himself to stand up straight andwalk more normally-The Dog Beneath the Skin: StevenoCocaine addict-Increase the level of dopamineoHe began to smell things no one else could smell-Disinhibited olfactory sensoroDecided to stop using drugs to stop smelling so
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