Coup and countrecoup are classified as primary brain injury that is caused by direct impact and can be focal‚ affecting one area of the brain‚ or diffuse‚ involving more than one area of the brain. A bruise or contusion is caused by force that damages or destroys blood vessels. Coup and contrecoup injuries are contusions that result from a blow to the head‚ which leads to the brain to slam against the inside of the skull. Furthermore‚ coup injury is brain contusion that occurs at the point of impact
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In 2014‚ the article “Secrets of The Brain” by Carl Zimmer was published in National Geographic. I am grateful I chose to study this article about the brain because it is simply mind blowing. Our brain is far more complicated then we put it out to be. Our knowledge is extremely limited and there is much work to do. Carl Zimmer lays out some of the knowledge that we do have about the brain but he mostly covered what we do not know and what scientists are working to understand. We as humans did not
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NOVA: How the Brain Works The description pretty much describes this video well. In essence‚ it’s a look into the complexity of the human brain. Trying to understand how we perceived the world around us and showing some of the experiments that try to explain how the process works. If you want to spend an hour with quirky but interesting approach to the topics of how illusions work‚ how our brains are affected by electro-magnetic impulses and what is the current status of artificial intelligence
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May 2005 Evolution of the brain and intelligence Gerhard Roth1‚2 and Ursula Dicke2 1 2 Hanse Institute for Advanced Study‚ D-27753 Delmenhorst‚ Germany Brain Research Institute‚ University of Bremen‚ D-28334 Bremen‚ Germany Intelligence has evolved many times independently among vertebrates. Primates‚ elephants and cetaceans are assumed to be more intelligent than ‘lower’ mammals‚ the great apes and humans more than monkeys‚ and humans more than the great apes. Brain properties assumed to be relevant
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How the city hurts your brain The city life affects and hurts the human brain in many ways‚ and more than 50% of the world’s population‚ now lives in the cities. In the British newspaper Boston Globe‚ Jonah Lehrer poses these topics in his article “How the city hurts your brain.” Jonah Lehrer’s newspaper article is based on a scientific investigation on how the city hurts the brain‚ and also what experts think the solution is. Psychologists claim‚ according to Jonah Lehrer‚ the solution to the
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In the article “You Can Grown Your Brain”‚ the author makes a clear connection stateing‚ with research‚ that the brain can grow with the right “exercise”. The author elaborates what this exercise might be to his audience. Since the article is mostly informational but simply written‚ it is targeted towards those whom‚ with the authors help‚ wish to improve their own IQ. In the beginning the author says the brain is a muscle‚ intelligence is more complex than labeling someone as smart or dumb. It
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AP Psychology Brain Structure Review/ Study note | |Brain Structure |Location |Functions |Mal Functions |Disorders |Substructures | |CEREBRAL CORTEX (Cerebrum) |Frontal Lobe |At the front most region of |Decision making |Paralysis |ADHD |Prefrontal cortex |
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A.R.‚ Damasio‚ H.‚ and Anderson‚ S.W. (1994). Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex. Cognition 50‚ 7–15. Berns‚ G.S.‚ McClure‚ S.M.‚ Pagnoni‚ G.‚ and Montague‚ P.R. (2001). Predictability modulates human brain response to reward. J. Neurosci. 21‚ 2793–2798. Chacko‚ E.‚ McDuff‚ I.‚ and Jackson‚ R. (2003). Replacing sugarbased soft drinks with sugar-free alternatives could slow the progress of the obesity epidemic: have your Coke and drink it too. N. Z. Med
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The Brain Left vs. Right Spencer Wright College 100 American Military University Drucilla Russell The Brain Hemispheres Left vs. Right: How does this impact learning The brain is a continually researched part of the human anatomy. With advances in technology‚ medicine and psychology it has been continually researched. The current science we have now reveals many things about the brain‚ such as there are two hemispheres in the brain‚ the left side and the right side. How much truth
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the popular kid in school everyone looking up to you being drop dead gorgeous‚ amazing at sports‚ and a bright future ahead of you‚ then waking up one day to have your entire life flipped upside down. I don’t know If any of you know someone with a brain injury or head trauma but I have been influenced by it my whole life. My Aunt Terri was in a horrible crash‚ she was comatose for over three weeks‚ and woke up with the mind of a toddler‚ her story is in nothing short of a miracle. When my aunt
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