anxiety can happen to just about any stimuli and can have a prolonged effect. It is not exactly known what precisely causes anxiety disorders to occur‚ but according to the National Institute of Mental Health‚ the amygdala and hippocampus might be largely involved in the process. The amygdala could be what is alerting the body to the threat of danger‚ and the hippocampus could be what is committing the fear of whatever the stimuli was to memory‚ thus creating a sort of loop where the body associates
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“The teen brain is only about 80 percent of the way to maturity. That 20 percent gap‚ where the wiring is thinnest‚ is crucial and goes a long way toward explaining why teenagers’ behave in such puzzling ways- their mood swings‚ irritability‚ impulsiveness and explosiveness: their inability to focus‚ to follow through‚ and to connect with adults; their temptations to use drugs and alcohol and to engage in other risky behavior. When we think of ourselves as civilized‚ intelligent adults‚ we really
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high-powered rifle‚ he shot wildly at his fellow student‚ ultimately killing 14 people and wounding more than 20 before the police finally killed him. An autopsy on Whitman ’s body revealed a large tumor pressing against his amygdala. From Module 4 (Myers‚ 2011) you know that the amygdala regulates aggressive behaviors in most animals (the research is less clear for humans). With this in mind‚ should Whitman be held responsible for his actions? Why or why not? If Whitman had lived‚ would you have been
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February 17‚ 2014 Nowadays‚ children’s health becomes increasingly cared by more and more citizens. Among thousands kinds of diseases‚ one kind of them which occurs during children’s developing has abstract particular attention from publics‚ that is‚ autism. The autism is a serious condition which appears in childhoods and it can persist throughout a person’s whole life and it effects an individual’s social interaction‚ communication and behavior badly. Unfortunately‚ the number of autistic
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Some studies suggest that neuroplasticity in the mesolimbic dopamine circuit can produce effects that are opposite to the antidepressant effects observed in the hippocampus. Although circumstantial‚ there is evidence that neuroplasticity in the amygdala may work contrary to antidepressant effects. There is a concern that novel therapeutic strategies aimed at enhancement of neuroplasticity may have unintended pro-depressant effects through their impact on the nucleus accumbens or other structures
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Psychopath‚ sociopath‚ psycho‚ and crazy are terms used by the public for years. They are commonly used interchangeably with little understanding of what they mean. Psychopaths and sociopaths (also known as antisocial personality disorder) are different from what people usually think they are. Usually on television and movies they plan the role of the crazy killer or the lone man in the woods that kidnaps and tortures people. In reality‚ many people can be classified as a psychopath and still
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Diagnosing and Treating PTSD with the Stroop Effect Yoel Alperin Riverwood International Charter School Many studies have been conducted about the Stroop Effect and about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder‚ however few discuss how the two are related. It’s not surprising that researchers don’t see the two as having any effect on each other and on the surface that is true. It’s hard to believe that a famous study explaining inhibition has any relation to a terrifying disorder caused by extreme trauma
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Behaviors and Symptoms of a Psychopath Psychopaths are usually associated with sadistic extremes like Ted Bundy or Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs‚ but not all psychopaths are necessarily this obvious to spot. Some psychopaths live an entire life without acting on their instinctual need to control and hurt others. Psychopaths can be divided into 4 separate subgroups based on their behavior. There is the primary psychopath‚ the secondary psychopath‚ the distempered psychopath‚ and the
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certain why this happens‚ but genetics can play a part in the onset. The decreased size of the cerebral volume causes the brain to function differently as well. For example‚ children with BSD also have a hyperactive amygdala and a hypoactive prefrontal cortex (Weis‚ 2014). The amygdala is responsible for the brain’s “fight or flight” reflex and since it is more sensitive than normal‚ this can cause problems like developing phobias or acting out repeatedly. The prefrontal cortex‚ which is in charge
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done by Ross‚ et al. (1994) showed that PTSD sufferers do not achieve proper REM sleep. REM sleep is crucial for memory consolidation; however‚ it is also the time in which the amygdala is most active (BBC‚ 2009). The amygdala is a structure in the brain responsible for emotions such as fear‚ in PTSD sufferers‚ the amygdala is more active as opposed to those who do not have the disorder (Shin‚ et. al.‚ 2006). Another structure of the brain is the hippocampus it is the part of the brain responsible
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