Human Neuropsychology

Emotion and the Social Brain - what is important?

1) How do emotions develop? What role does the environment play?

2) What is Kluver-Bucy syndrome?

3) Why were frontal lobotomies done? What were the behaviors following surgery?

4) Are emotional responses lateralized?

5) A patient has suffered a stroke involving the frontal lobes. You, as the attending neuropsychologist, have been asked to evaluate his emotional status. What do you do?

Spatial Behavior - what is important?

1) What are the roles of the frontal and temporal lobes in spatial behavior?

2) What are the dorsal and ventral spatial behavior networks?

3) How can we model spatial behavior in rodents?

4) What are the neural correlates of spatial behavior? How do we know?