Brain & Behavior
Psychology 20• Fall Quarter
11-12:15, 040
Lecture: Neuroanatomy & consciousness
Relevant readings in Kalat:
Chapter 1 (read again if necessary)
Chapter 4 (The Anatomy and investigation of the nervous system)
Chapter 14, pp 374-385: (Lateralization of function).
I. STRUCTURE GIVES RISE TO FUNCTION. a. The brain is a complex machine with trillions of moving parts.
b. Neurons are the major players in brain function.
c. Gross neuroanatomy, cellular neuroanatomy and functional neuroanatomy provide
    complementary views of the nervous system. II. HOW DOES THE BRAIN GIVE RISE TO MIND? 
    WHY DOES IT BOTHER TO DO SO?
a. General suppression of consciousness.
b. Selective suppression of consciousness.
c. Alteration of consciousness with brain stimulation and drugs.
d. Division of consciousness.
Some terms and names used in this lecture:

Descartes, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius,
Horace Wells, Crawford W. Long, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Novocain, Bisiach and Luzzatti, homunculi, Wilder Penfield, Ojeman, Walter Hess, mesencephalon, diencephalon, Antonio de Egas Moniz, automata, James Olds, Peter Milner, sagittal, corpus callosum, Chimeras, Roger Sperry

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