What is love?
emotion
cognition.
motivation
Why is love?
evolution
Freud
How is love?
Language
Perception
What do you love?
Where is love?
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart, or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engender'd in the eyes...
Merchant of Venice 3:2
...and so on....
A bit about the course: (READ THE SYLLABUS)
The brain
materialism & dualism
How can we learn about the functioning of the brain?
Four methods
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Problems & Pitfalls
A whirlwind tour of the brain
Lobes: frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal
Cortical localization:
visual cortex, somatosensory cortex, motor cortex
auditory cortex, wernicke's area, broca's, area
A historical note about Phrenology
Underneath the cortex:
Limbic system
Basal ganglia
Brain stem/core
Cerebellum
The Neuron
axon
dendrite
soma
myelin
synapse
neurotransmitters
brain and behavior
Obsessive-compulsive disorders (for example)
Serotonin
In humans, there are drugs that are serotonin re-uptake blockers
explain re-uptake
Prozac is a " serotonin re-uptake inhibitor" (what does that mean).