Psychology › Section C · Biopsychology › Topic C.4
The brain and spinal cord
Three pounds of tissue, and everything you have ever thought, felt or done. This topic tours the brain bottom-up - brainstem to cortex - naming the regions, the tools that reveal them, and the famous patients who taught us what each part does.
In this topic
- How we know: cases and scans
- The brainstem: survival's floor
- The cerebellum
- The limbic system: emotion and memory
- The cerebral cortex
- Language areas: Broca and Wernicke
- Hemispheres and the split brain
- Neuroplasticity: the brain that changes
- Worked example: reading a stroke
- Worked example: Broca or Wernicke?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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