Video: The Concept of Homeostasis and the Entire Nervous System (PBS, 12 minutes)
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After reading the Content Guide and Textbook and watching the Lecture Video for this week, consider the following three questions:
1. How would you describe our current understanding of the following three areas in the hypothalamus: the ventromedial hypothalamus, the lateral compartment, and the arcuate nucleus? For this Topic, be sure to cite at least one reference to support your characterization of these hypothalamic areas as they relate to our behaviors. Your reference can pertain to any publication you care to find and delve into.
2. How would you describe to someone how the brain strives to maintain our body’s temperature around a ‘set point’?
3. From what you learned in Chapter 10, how would you describe relationships between the experience of stress and the consumption of comfort foods?
Assignment 2 – 1 page
after reading the Content Guide and Textbook and watching the Lecture Video for this week, consider the following two topics:
Topic 1
How would you describe the two most obvious roles of steroid hormones over a lifespan? What examples would you use to describe each of the two different roles of steroid hormones to someone that has never taken a biology course?
Topic 2
How would you describe the sequence of events that occurs prenatally and postnatally regarding the development of sex characteristics? Be sure to include both the development of the internal and external sex organs and the brain! For this Topic, be sure to cite at least one reference to support your characterization of these hypothalamic areas as they relate to our behaviors. Your reference can pertain to any publication you care to find and delve into