Biology

[equalsmcsquared.livejournal.com]

I trust all of you had a pleasant Halloween. Coffee, sodas and candy are near the back next to the roll sheet. Anyone who hasn't turned in a body farm report or the substitute report needs to do so today.

Biological psychology may be looked at as a hybrid of neuroscience and psychology. Practitioners of biological psychology may use their knowledge of the brain, from neurotransmitters to the cerebral cortex to treat their patients. Others may use this knowledge to search for biological causes for common mental illnesses, such as depression and schizophrenia.

Many psychologists focus largely on the mental processes of their patients. Biological psychologists work on the basis that there is an organic basis to mental processes, and that this requires them to understand the way that mental processes are instantiated in the brain. They recognize that treating the organic problem may be accomplished by talking as well as drugs.

In today's lab, I would like you to look at the following list of symptoms and/or incidents and reason out whether the cause of the dysfunction is biological or psychological. So long as your answer is supported with data, I will accept either.

Comments

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Doing pretty darn good, actually. *studies over the notes some more* Though I guess that's kinda evident, from what I hear about the radio saying about me. *blushes*

[ooc: and I'm sadly off to real class, but will be back in a couple hours.]

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*snickers* See, I was going to be nice and not bring that up

[ooc: Not a problem... I think I'm going to go and nap! Have fun!]

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Hey, It's not like people don't know. And I saw in the paper that we're apparently the most saccharine couple on campus... which is either the coolest thing ever, or I should be worried, and I'm not sure which. *quiet giggle*

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*frowns slightly* I'm not big on gossip full stop really.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry... *frowns too* Erm, is there something wrong? You seem kinda down. Did I say something wrong?

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*tries to smile* No, I'm just of the belief that gossip is bad and can often be hurtful, that's all.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess so. So, erm... how are you, then? *fidgets with her pencil*

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

I'm okay. Dropped ethics last week, so I'm feeling better about that. Just had my second western literature class, which was good.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cool... western lit? So... Literature of places that are west, or about the west, or what?

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*grins* Literature from the western civilization, which is places like the United States, and Europe. There's a good variety of books on the syllabus

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cool, cool. *nods* So, Europe is west of here? Or is it near hear, and we're all west of something else?

Or am I just being a stupid colonial again?

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

No, Europe's east of it. The western world refers to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants - which includes the United States, which seems to be driving country behind the modernization and globalization of the world. It's not necessarily used because of the geographical locations of these countries, although during the Cold War, the East - which was pretty much the Soviet Union and the countries in the Warsaw Pact - was obviously to the east of Europe.

It doesn't have a strict international definition, Governments do not use the term in legislation of international treaties and instead rely on other definitions. If the term is used in academic articles it tends to be reserved for use in articles about those areas and times where the Western Roman Empire had a direct influence.

*blinks, and grins sheepishly*

Okay, I think I should go out of lecture mode now...

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

*stares, slack-jawed, blinking*

You are so much smarter than me, geeze.

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*blushes, and looks down at her biology notes*

It's just something I happen to know about, that's all.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Wow, still... that's... that's a lot.

...and now I totally have no clue what we're supposed to be doing.

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*looks down at the sheet*

Biological psychology

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Right, right... *goes back to looking through the notes, and trying to work out the assignment*

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*continues to work through the notes*