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= media type="file" key="EE_Movie_101313-2210.mp4"Module 3 = = The Brain's Building Blocks =

= Welcome! =

(2007)

This Wiki page will cover Module 3 of the AP Psychology textbook from pages 46 to 65.
= Review Your Vocabulary! = Check out these wonderful flashcards to help you review your blue vocab terms from this module! You can challenge yourself in many new ways using them (: (Plotnik, 2005)

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= Want More Information? = To experience a well-rounded, both basic and detailed, explanation of the brain's "building blocks", click this link. It provides diagrams, activities you may be interested in completing to help further your understanding, and key vocabulary and ideas that will help you understand neurons and how they work. Simply click the link, choose Chapter 3: Brains, Bodies, and Behavior, choose 3.1 The Neuron is the Building Block of the Nervous System, then enjoy all the provided educational information.

Use this website to explore neurons, neurotransmission, synapses, and action potential, all of which are included in Module 3 and will help you expand your understanding. This website includes definitions, diagrams, and moving pictures to help you understand the building blocks of the brain!

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Phantom limbs? Of course they're mentioned in Module 3 on page 58 but this educational site will help you explore phantom limbs and phantom pain better. Click the different picture links on the page in order to explore theories of phantom limbs, pain, plasticity, treatments, and case studies. Hopefully you will be as interested in it as I was! (:

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After all that reading, I'm sure you need a break. And because there was vocabulary early and stem cells were brought up, here is an interactive exploration of stem cells and their niches. Learn tons more about how stem cells work and separate to make the human body.

(Eugene, 2012) In this photograph, a participant undergoes an EEG study so a researcher could study the activity of the brain. The aim with EEG studies is to understand the electrical activity of firing neurons. In this photo, the EEG test was studying feature detector neurons, which are in the visual cortex, and detect movement, lines, edges, and faces (Stangor, 2012).

= Current Events = If you're interested in reading more about how the brain and it's building blocks affects human behavior and the lives of those around you, [|here is an article] that discusses getting tested for Alzheimer's disease, which was discussed in Module 3, at early ages and how this could impact someone's life. It touches base on how Alzheimer's impacts someone's brain and how the brain's chemicals, etc., can impact Alzheimer's. MRI and PET scans were mentioned in this article as well, which is discussed further in Module 4 but is beneficial for understanding Alzheimer's disease.

As you may have discovered by this point, this Module covers neurons and their structures and functions. Neurons are the brain cells that receive and transmit electrical signals in the brain to help make connections, new understandings, and behaviors. According to [|this article], teenagers' behave in multiple, unpredictable ways occasionally because the neurons in their brains are still making connections. Read further to understand why this may be!

= Listen and Look Here for More (: = Although this module does not really discuss epilepsy or chronic pain, this article has a podcast that helps explain how the firing of neurons, or more importantly the misfiring of neurons, may cause some of these issues.

This RSS feed will lead you to various articles and commentaries dealing with the building blocks of the brain, neurons. Some links discuss olfactory stimulation and how neurons impact it to epilepsy to neurons in the prefrontal cortex to further your educational experience.

= One last thing to think about: =

(2007). [Image of painting]. Louisiana; National Communication Network. Retrieved June 1, 2012, from []

[Image of painting]. Eugene, Oregon; University of Oregon: Child and Family Center. Retrieved May 31, 2012, from []

Plotnik, R. (n.d.). Introduction to Psychology (7th ed.). Monterey, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.

Stangor, C. (n.d.). Introduction to Psychology. In //FWK Reader//. Retrieved May 31, 2012, from []