LP-7: Psychology: Neuroscience Unit - IV
Grade Level:
Multi
Subject:
Psychology
Prepared By:
Education Standards Addressed
APA (American Psychological Association) Standards for High
School Psychology Curricula. apa.org
Harvard Medical School Neuroscience excerpts
A.P Psychology Curriculum
TED: Conference
CLIPS: Reflexes
CLIPS: Joe’s Split Brain Surgery
CLIPS: Canadian Medical Association
ACTIVITY: Univ. of Utah: Rabbit Party
Do Nows: -What does it mean if a neurologist asks you draw a clock?
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What is the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge of the Interstate 84 of your brain called?
What does it mean if a neurologist asks you to “Draw a Clock”?
What rare and controversial procedure is sometimes done to patients with severe seizure
disorders? What do you do when you stub your toe? Describe in as many steps as possible.
What neuron travels from brain to body/body to brain/connect neurons/insulation of
nerves/autoimmune disorder that attacks mylein
-Look into your neighbor’s ideas – don’t’ look away, (lights off, lights on) what happened?
Reading: What are reflexes?
1. Read article
2. Answer questions for “reading” …you will answer the “listening” questions at the end of class and
hand in.
- INTRO: Reading – INTRO Dr. Oliver Sacks and “Awakenings”
FOCUS/DO NOW: Review ?
and Pupillary Response
Teacher Objectives
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Student Guide
A reflex is an involuntary or automatic,
action that your body does in response
to something - without you even having
to think about it.
There are many types of reflexes and
every healthy person has them. In fact,
we're born with most of them…and
most of them fade by age 6 months.
Some infant reflexes that show up in
adulthood can be signs of neurological
disease.
SWBAT: Understand how Myelinated neurons are
found in the peripheral nerves (sensory and motor
neurons), while non-myelinated neurons are found
in the brain and spinal cord. Compare Sensory
Neurons, Motor Neurons, Interneuron, synapes and
receptors. Describe the role of neurotransmitters.
Identify the purposes of dopamine, serotonin,
acetylcholine, GABA, endorphins and the process of
reuptake. I DO:
READING:
Verification
WE DO: Mouse Party
SWBAT: The role of drugs on the process of
neurotransmission within the brain. Understand
the role of reflexes, their purposes and at what
point they should vanish and/or be replaced.
Understand types of seizures and headaches.
-CLIPS: Joes Split Brain Surgery
-Moro Reflex, Tonic, Babinkski, Galant,
Pupillary, D.T.R.’s,
Other Resources
CLIPS: Reflexes
Assessment:
THEY DO: Build a Brain competition
Build a Brain Competition
Create Groups – go over process and
rubric
Discussion: combination of prescribed medications
can create fatal reactions: Brittany Murphy, Heath
Ledger, Jimi Hendrix and aspiration death/O.D.
Film: Awakenings. Robert DiNiro and
Robin Williams.
Film Sheet Analysis – Awakenings
Post Discussion: The Real
Awakenings Patients; fact from fiction
PREPARE: Midterm Review
Film Analysis: Awakenings
Essay: Oliver Sacks and the
Real Awakenings © 2002
The Invisible Epidemic of Encephalitis
Lethargica in the 1920’s and
Parkinsonian tremors/rigors years
later.
SEROTONIN OVERDOSE
EFFECTS OF DRUGS ON BRAIN
CHEMISTRY
Oliver Sacks: Various Readings and
Websites
Materials Needed
 Pen
 Notebook
 Text: “Psychology and
You”
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Website: Rabbit Party:
Univ. of Utah Dept of
Genetics