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PSYCHOLOGY 101 -
Researching the Brain
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Thursday September 16 Researching the Brain Brian research is dependent on technology Early brain researchers could o Examine the thoughts and behaviors or patients who had suffered brain damage Broca s area and speech deficits o Perform lesion experiments in animals Destroys a specific brain region and then examine the effects of that lesion on behavior Hypothalamic damage can lead to obesity or starvation depending on the location of the damage Single cell recordings since 1950s Brain imagining techniques o EEG since 1930s and MEG since 1990s Track the electrical activity of the brain
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