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The brain and Neurobiology

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  • Facilitating Learning within Occupational Therapy
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  • Queen Margaret University Edinburgh (QMU)
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  • Neurobiology of Brain Disorders

This document is based on notes from a lecture in which I viewed for my class online. It gives simple example of how the brain and neurobiology are linked together and discusses in further detail of the separates parts of what makes neurobiology and an understanding of it.

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  • February 27, 2023
  • 5
  • 2021/2022
  • Class notes
  • Pentland
  • Brain and neurobiology

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  • plasticity
  • declarative learning
  • motor re learning

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The Brain and the Neurobiology of Learning
Learning-
• A process that leads to change, which occurs as result of an experience and increases
the potential for improved performance and future learning (Ambrose et al 2003)
Bloom
• Cognitive- processing information
• Psychometer- Motor skills
• Affective- Feelings and emotions


Learning categories and the brain
 Associated with memory
 information must be acquired, processed and stored for future use
 Declarative learning/memory aka explicit learning/memory
 Procedural learning

Declarative Learning




 Episodic memory - autobiographical
 Semantic memory – facts unrelated to personal events/experiences


Declarative Learning

Hippocampus
- Forming and indexing episodic memory

Neocortex
- Sensory perception, motor commands, spatial reasoning, language.

, Amygdala
- Attached emotional importance to memories

Prefrontal cortex
- Involved in short term/working memory




A synapse is a structure that
permits a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron or to the target
effector cell. Chemical synapses – electrical to neurotransmitter to electrical
Electrical synapses – electrical to electrical via a gap junction

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