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The Biological Perspective 61 What are the specific ways in which this division readies the body to react? (See Fig- ure 2. 8 .) ...

62 CHAPTER 2 might actually collapse (as a deer might do when being chased by another animal). This collapse occurs because the ...

The Biological Perspective 63 Distant Connections: The Endocrine Glands How do the glands fit into all of this? Aren’t there mor ...

64 CHAPTER 2 The Pituitary: Master of the Hormonal Universe 2.6 Explain why the pituitary gland is known as the “master gland.” ...

The Biological Perspective 65 The hormone that controls aspects of pregnancy is called oxytocin, and it is involved in a variety ...

66 CHAPTER 2 regulates metabolism (how fast the body burns its available energy). As related to growth, the thyroid plays a cruc ...

The Biological Perspective 67 Looking Inside the Living Brain Scientists can’t be sure what brain tissue really looks like when ...

68 CHAPTER 2 INVASIVE TECHNIQUES: STIMULATING FROM THE INSIDE A specific type of ESB called deep brain stimulation (DBS) has bee ...

The Biological Perspective 69 Instead, various neuroimaging techniques can do this, either by directly imaging the brain’s struc ...

70 CHAPTER 2 function, such as structural changes associated with different levels of memory perfor- mance, and various disorder ...

The Biological Perspective 71 MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY (MEG) While the EEG alone does not allow for the direct identification of a ...

72 CHAPTER 2 Concept Map LO. 2.8, 2.9 Interactive Reset often relied on dissection techniques after death unable to directly obs ...

The Biological Perspective 73 From the Bottom Up: The Structures of the Brain Okay, now I understand a little more about how we ...

74 CHAPTER 2 PONS The pons is the larger “swelling” just above the medulla. This term means “bridge,” and the pons is indeed the ...

The Biological Perspective 75 disorder, in which children or adults have difficulty maintaining attention to a single task (Durs ...

76 CHAPTER 2 brain and spinal cord, we will focus on the subcortical structures that have been collec- tively referred to as the ...

The Biological Perspective 77 given to this brain structure because the first scientists who dissected the brain thought it look ...

78 CHAPTER 2 covering on all the other brain structures. This will be the cortex, which will get more and more wrinkled as the b ...

The Biological Perspective 79 temporal and parietal lobes, helps identify and make sense of the visual information from the eyes ...

80 CHAPTER 2 Buccino et al., 2004; Iacoboni et al., 1999). However, single-cell and multicell recordings in humans have demonstr ...