the brain‚ just like drugs‚ say researchers By ROB WAUGH UPDATED: 07:42 GMT‚ 12 January 2012 Internet addiction disrupts nerve wiring in the brains of teenagers‚ a study has found - causing a level of brain damage normally seen in heavy substance abusers. Similar effects have been seen in the brains of people exposed to alcohol‚ cocaine and cannabis. The discovery shows that being hooked on a behaviour can be just as physically damaging as addiction to drugs‚ scientists believe. Brain scans
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The brain is a vital part of the human body that allows for humans to be able to function and communicate‚ but it is also a structure that can greatly affect the body and its functions if damaged. The brain is at risk of damage in most situations such as accidents or disease‚ but one of the greatest events in life that have a huge risk of brain damage are contact sports. Four brain structures that can be affected by a sports related injury to the head are the cerebellum‚ hippocampus‚ amygdala‚ and
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Worse Than Death ——An Analysis of Irony in Emily Dickinson’s “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” The whole poem was in the past tense‚ just like relating to the poet’s nostalgic retrospective‚ telling a story that truly happened to her. What’s so scary a part about the poem is‚ if without the first line‚ the major subject— a “Funeral” that Emily once went through by herself‚ offering readers an angle of view from their own coffins‚ alive. The poem‚ thus‚ has put up a question probably with no answer:
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Evolution of the Human Brain: How it Differs From Our Ancestors and Why? The human brain is a feat of evolution: it has allowed humans to have complex thoughts‚ conscience‚ build tools‚ create fires‚ and much more. Humans did not acquire this simply by chance. Evolution throughout our ancestral past has shaped and moulded the human mind to its state. The earliest of ancestors‚ including apes‚ had very small brains‚ but as evolution progressed‚ so too did the human brain. The rapid progression
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may harm unborn babies’ brains." This article explained the danger to unborn babies when ultrasounds are performed on the mother to be. Research has been conducted to test the danger of ultrasounds on unborn mice. The research has shown some of the dangerous sides of ultrasounds. The mice were injected while in the womb to track their brain development. There were 335 mice injected. The research showed that the pregnant mice gave birth to mice with slight brain function disorders. The
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study of brain damage inform our understanding of the human brain? The study of brain injury is an imperative tool when trying to understand the in-depth workings of “the most complex object in the known universe”. We have been studying the brain for thousands of years. From Hippocrates in 468BC‚ describing epilepsy as a disturbance of the brain‚ to our modern day MRI and CT scans able to image the brain in great detail our knowledge is always growing. However the study of Brain Injury has
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tutorial/review covers functional brain imaging methods and results used to study language and reading disabilities. Although the main focus of this paper is on functional MRI and functional MR spectroscopy‚ other imaging techniques are discussed briefly such as positron emission tomography (PET)‚ electroencephalography (EEG) ‚ magnetoencepholography (MEG)‚ and MR diffusion imaging. These functional brain imaging studies have demonstrated that dyslexia is a brain-based disorder and that serial imaging
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PSY 350 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 Brain Injury shows the solutions to the following problems: View the Brain Injury video: What can the brain do to repair itself after traumatic injury? What does the recovery of the brain typically depend on? How does therapy facilitate in the restoration of lost brain function? Are there any other approaches‚ besides physical therapy that could assist in regaining the brain function lost from a traumatic brain injury? Your initial post should be a
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Is it true that usage of mobile phones will lead to brain cancer? Mobile phones produce radio frequency radiation or radio waves. It is a form of non-ionizing radiation. “Non-ionizing radiation simply means that there is enough energy to move atoms in a molecule around or cause them to move‚ but not enough energy to remove electrons.” (Ionizing and Non-Ionizing Radiation‚ US Environmental Protection Agency n.d) With this said‚ atoms and molecules of tissues closest to where the mobile phone is
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the players suffer long term injuries such as brain and health injuries. Injuries raise from sports getting more dangerous. In the three passages "Weighing the risks"‚ "Let them play"‚ and "The professionals’ points of view". There are arguments about whether or not the people are safe enough. To begin with‚ players can suffer major brain damage. In the passage "Weighing the risks" it states former players may suffer several types of brain disorders from concussions and severe impacts from
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