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    The brain has very many intriguing‚ mysterious‚ yet puzzling functions that scientists have been studying and researching for a while. Two articles‚ “Embarrassed? Blame your brain” and “Use it or lose it: A good Brain Pruning” both explain the topics of the brain and its perplexing functions. While this is true‚ there are also numerous differences between the two articles. Although they focus on different topics of the brain‚ both articles still share many similarities. First of all‚ both texts

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    Phineas Gage is considered to be one of the severe brain injuries. Gage suffered from personality changes after the brain injury. Gage was injured when excavating rocks to create a path for railroad track. Gage and other employees were injured by rail roads during the construction work. Gage was later treated after the accident as he his brain had been damaged. The accident caused damaged to brain structures and doctors argued that Gage started behaving differently after the accident (Damasio‚ Grabowski

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    Brain Based Learning in Elementary Language Arts Classrooms Abstract Brain-based learning is a useful teaching method designed so that educators can better understand the young adolescents mind and apply this information into their classrooms‚ resulting in improved academics and emotional standings. English‚ or Language Arts‚ is one of the many subjects experimented in the efficiency of brain-based education. Research has shown that students

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    Left Brain Vs. Right Brain Learning Theory Left Brain vs. Right Brain Learning Theory The left brain versus right brain learning theory states that each side of the brain controls different types of thinking. These different types of thinking are said to be dominant in different types of people. It is postulated that people are either left or right brain thinkers‚ and it is complicated for a person to try to think any differently than they already know how. The idea was raised in the 1860’s

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    hockey. These sports cause massive trauma and injuries to the brain. While sports are fun and part of everyday life‚ high impact sports can be dangerous to kids and younger adults and every 1 in 3 players will have brain injuries and/or C.T.E. and it will affect their brain for the worse before it’s developed. First‚ high impact sports can be dangerous to kids and young adults because it affects their brain in a terrible way before the brain is fully grown. “Concern over concussions has filtered down

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    Brain-based learning started in the 1970s as a means to understand the interworking’s of the brain and how this would aid in education. This paper will review the advantages of brain-compatible learning environments by first discussing what brain-based learning consist of‚ the relationship between the brain and student learning‚ the advantages of brain-compatible learning environments‚ how these environments can be implemented‚ brain-compatible teaching methods and how we can measure the success

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    Traumatic Brain Injury: Living with TBI and the effects on individual and caregivers Traumatic Brain Injury is otherwise known as TBI. “Traumatic brain injury‚ a form of acquired brain injury‚ occurs when sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object‚ or when an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue” (NINDS‚ 2010). There are two main types of TBI‚ closed head injuries such as head hitting a windshield and penetrating

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    Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Kaplan University CM220: College Composition September 5‚ 2012 Traumatic Brain Injury is an injury that affects an estimated 1.7 million people per year in the United States. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits a solid object‚ or an object pierces through the skull and enters the brain tissue. There are two main types of TBI a closed head injury (CHI)

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    INTRODUCTION Traumatic Brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability among the youth in Australia and other countries. The most common cause of moderate and severe head injury among the young adults is road traffic crashes with falls and assaults being the next most common cause (Elliot‚ Aitken & Chaboyer‚ 2012). Descriptive analysis of the data from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2006 from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Morbidity Database found that males had

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    What I learned in this unit is that the brain is made up of several special parts‚ each of them work in different parts. The brain has many jobs. It controls our spinal cord‚ our central nervous system and our nervous system. The spinal cord carries messages to the brain and also to the nerve cells that carry messages from the brain. Your body senses everything. Like something smashing your toe. You react to it. It all sends itself to the brain and it reacts. The cerebrum‚ controls thinking

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