The brain is the key to our existence and carrying out daily functions‚ whether we are aware of the process or not as it is carried out. This factor becomes important as well when understanding the role of development with criminal involvement. The male brain is different in several ways to the female brain not only in size but in structure as well. The average male brain weighs around 11% more than the female brain (Craig et al.‚ 2004‚ 270). The differences in the structure are in certain
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Mental abilities Our brain is a very complicated system of the human organism. It makes functioning all the organs and systems of the human body. The proper functioning of the human brain depends on various aspects and may be influenced by many different things. Modern people have a great amount of stresses which certainly don’t have a good influence on our health‚ including mental one. All kinds of head injuries may lead to serious problems this brain also. Such a very useful tool as memory is
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Charles Whitman Jonathan Greene Forsyth Technical Community College Abstract Research has been extensive related to the brain and how it functions since early times. This abstract will explore the connection between the amygdala and a prominent legal case that happened in 1966 with Charles Whitman (Ledoux par 3). In his early life‚ Charles was a model child. He was born in 1941‚ and raised in Florida where he was an eagle scout and was a straight A student (Ledoux par3). He joined the
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Dementia is the term used to describe the symptoms that occur when the brain is affected (damaged) by certain diseases and conditions (e.g. a stroke)‚ including Alzheimer’s disease. As this is a progressive disease‚ symptoms can be slowed down‚ but not cured and will always‚ gradually get worse. Regardless of the cause of the dementia‚ as it is the brain cells that are dying‚ some of the person’s abilities and functions of day to day life will progressively become more difficult. There are five
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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy in the body 1 ; 2. It is a median neuropathy at the wrist due to compression of the median nerve beneath the transverse carpal ligament 2; 3 ; 4. Carpal tunnel syndrome is confirmed by the identification of abnormal median nerve conduction tests across the carpal tunnel. Nerve conduction tests are essential in the confirmation of the diagnosis of suspected cases of CTS. These tests are objective tests that assess the physiological
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The Blue Brain Project by Serge Achildi The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain‚ right down to the molecular level‚ was launched on June of 2005. The hope is that the virtual brain will help shed light on some aspects of human cognition‚ such as perception‚ memory and perhaps even consciousness. The "Blue Brain" project‚ a
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Imagine a younger sibling or a younger cousin of yours‚ curious and happy‚ not having a care in the world. They have not yet seen the dangers of the world. Now‚ picture this in your head‚ picture there usually happy faces are now covered with fear and a sad face. Once they were free but now they are wearing shackles around their arms and their legs‚ shackles to big for them‚ shackles meant for someone older. Shackles not meant for them. Imagine if the last time you saw your younger sibling/cousin
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The Brain and Behavior Essay Marc Gagnon BEH/225 3/15/2014 Jennifer Reed Did you know that there are four lobes that are within the brain that control the way our behavior is. The frontal lobe and the temporal lobe are the two that we are going to discuss and how they control our behavior. We will also look at what heredity has to do with our behavior and if the lobes were damaged what could the affects be. Broca’s and Wernicke’s had aphesis on the lobes. The frontal lobe
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The amygdala‚ also known as the corpus amygdaloideum‚ is located deep and medially in the temporal (side) lobe of the brain. Damage to the amygdala leads to the inability to make memories in relation to the emotional or ‘valence’ of events. In this paper I will review the 1) structure‚ 2) functional pathways‚ 3) physiology‚ 4) development‚ and 5) the interesting role of PKMzeta in the amygdala. PKMzeta inhibits a critical pathway in the amygdala which appears to block the establishment of painful
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A long-term memory is anything you remember that occurred more than a few minutes ago. Long-term memories can remain for just a couple of days‚ or for many years. There are many different types of long-term memories. These memories aren’t formed and kept in a single part of the brain; the process is actually spread throughout several regions of the brain. The different types of long-term memories are procedural memory‚ declarative memory‚ semantic memory and episodic memory. • Procedural Memory:
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