What is a brain injury? What does being "brain-injured"? A brain-injured patient is a person with severe brain damage that result in achieving the thought process. Brain damage may occur after: - Head injury - An aneurysm or stroke - A tumor - A brain abscess - Following a disease affecting the nervous system (multiple sclerosis‚ Behcet’s disease ...) Consecutive brain damage such accidents and diseases often cause coma‚ neurological damage and cognitive impairment. What problems does it
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In the book Welcome to Your Brain‚ Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang explain how the human brain processes sensory and cognitive information‚ regulates emotions‚ and forms memories. An important process for responding to the world‚ is to take in information and decipher what it means so the brain can come up with a response to it. Since people often have to react quickly to emergencies and limited-time opportunities‚ the brain usually aims for a hurried answer instead of taking its time to formulate a perfect
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It was my brains fault November 24‚ 2013 Abstract In this paper I will share information on how our brain can control our behavior and affect everything we do. I will discuss how and why our brain has such a large impact on our physical and mental actions regardless of our age or what we intentionally do. I will help you better understand why at 3 lbs.‚ the human brain is so remarkable. This paper is intended to brief my audience on the structure of the brain and the
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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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