Frontal Lobes

The Immune System

• A healthy brain and a healthy body

The Damaged Brain

• Lesion

• Stroke

Probing the Brain

• Recording techniques– Electroencephalograph (EEG)– Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

• Stimulation– Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Probing the Brain

• Neuroimaging: Picturing the living brain– Visualizing brain structure

• Computer-assisted tomography (CT)• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

– Visualizing brain function• Positron emission tomography (PET)• Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Behavioral Genetics

• Heritability, not inheritability

• Twin studies– Monozygotic– Dizygotic– Adoption studies

Evolution and the Brain

• Natural selection: Reproduction of the fittest– Adaptation

The Major Endocrine Glands