Academia Nacional de Medicina

Psychic apparatus: Freud id, ego, super-ego, contains pre-conscious, conscious, unconscious. The Oedipus complex: child’s sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and hatred for the same-sex parent. Libido: energy of the sexual instinct. Electra complex: girl daughter–mother competition for psychosexual possession of the father. Narcissism: myth of Narcissus rejected the nymph Echo falling in love with

The brain has 100 billion neurons, connected by the connectome, base of human cognition. An autapse is the axon of a neuron onto itself, found in neocortex, substantia nigra, hippocampus. Neurotransmitters are stored in synaptic vesicles, released into the synaptic cleft, to the postsynaptic neuron. The locus coeruleus is in the pons, site for stress,