Post on 26-Oct-2014
KEMAHIRAN BERFIKIR
NURUL ADNIN NADHIRAH
NUR SHAFIAH
SHAMIRA
TRIUNE BRAIN THEORYBY PAUL MACLEAN
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PAUL MACLEAN
- Paul Maclean was born in Phelps,New York on 1 May 1913
- Third son of Presbytrian Minister
- Received his first english degree at Yale University
- He was an American’s physician and neuroscientist
- During World War 2,Paul Maclean served as medical officer in the
United States of Army.- After leaving Army he practised
medicined in Seattle- 1949 he joined the faculticy of
Yale Medical school in physiology and psychiatry.
- Studied the brain mechanism with DR.John Fulton
- In 1956 became Associate Professor of physiology
- Spent a year at NationalScience Foundation
- Last he work at National Institute of Mental Health
TRIUNE BRAIN THEORY
- Truine Brain Theory developed by Paul Maclean
- Function of traces of evolution of existing the structure oh the human
brain.- Brain is broke down into three
separate brain.Brain have it own special
intelligance,subjectivity,sense of time and space and memory
Triune brain
R.complex Limbic system Neocortex
R - Complex
- known as the reptilian brain
- Includes brain system and cerebellum- Reptilian Brain comes from the fact that a
reptile’s brain is dominated by the brain stream anc cerebellum,which control
instinctual survival behavior and thinking- Control muscle,balance autonomic
functions (e.g. thinking,breathing heart beat )
LIMBIC SYSTEM
- First introduced the terms limbic system in paper in 1952
-Derives from “the old mamalian brain”- Source of emotions and instincts ( e.g: feeding,fighthing.sexual behavior and
flleing)-Observed that everyting in limbic system
is either agreeable or disagreeable
Neocortex
- called as cerebral cortex- consists of 5/6 human brain
-outer portion of our brain- approximately size of newspaper page
crumpled together.- involved in language,includind speech and
writing possible-contains two specialized regions,
one dedicated to voluntary movement and the other one to processing sensory imformation