Your best friends invite you over for pizza and a friendly game of cards. Describe how the following parts of the brain are involved during your evening of eating pizza, socializing, and playing cards: Broca’s area, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and occipital lobe.

What are the brain areas that are the most impacted by the influence of alcohol? What is it about alcohol that cause brain impairment? Can this type of impairment be compared in the same way to being high on drugs or marijuana?

Describe Dr. LeDoux's direct ("fast and dirty") ascending emotional pathways   Emotional stimulus>dorso-medial thalamus>lateral nucleus of the amygdala Emotional stimulus>ventral sensory thalamus>neocortex>lateral nucleus of the amygdala Emotional stimulus>ventral sensory thalamus> PAG>central nucleus of the amygdala Emotional stimulus>ventral sensory thalamus> Hypothalamus>basolateral nucleus of the amygdala

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Owen is experiencing visual hallucinations that cause him to walk into traffic because he doesn’t know where he is. Without knowing anything else about Owen, can we conclude he likely has a mental disorder? Group of answer choices a. No, because it is important to know whether it is normative for people in his culture to walk out into traffic before we make a determination about normative vs abnormal behavior b. Yes, because Owen’s hallucinations are putting him in danger c. No, because it is unclear if Owen’s hallucinations are distressing to him d. Yes, because he is probably hallucinating due to drug use

Please tell me what is the frontal lobe, the functions of it, and what it is connected to?

For each description write the appropriate region of the brain 1. Coordinates skeletal movements to produce smooth motion   2. Contains a structure that produces cerebrospinal fluid   3. Includes the thalamus, epithalamus, and hypothalamus   4. Secretes hormones and regulates non-intellectual functions such as emotions and sleep-wake cycles   5. Sorting and relay station for sensory information                                                                                                  6. Relays signals and keeps you "alert and alive"

In PET scans, red areas are brain regions that are most active, while blue, yellow, and green areas are least active. Figure 13.24 shows PET scans of normal brain activity (left) and (right) of the brain of a person while using cocaine. The frontal lobes of the brain hemispheres are toward the top of the scans. Their neurons play major roles in reasoning and other intellectual functions. Looking at these scan images, how do you suppose cocaine may affect mental functioning?

What I Can Do How does the brain receive the information from the environment? What does the brain do as soon as it receives the information?

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