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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Introduction The cingulate gyrus is a stretch of cortex directly dorsal to the corpus callosum and can be split into multiple areas: the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)‚ middle cingulate cortex‚ and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). Each of these subsections has different structural characteristics and neuronal projections that characterize their individual cortical areas and functions (Stevens et al.‚ 2011). The ACC has been functionally tied to several behaviors‚ including decision-making‚ socially
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The purpose of this study was to see if a person is able to function normally when the left and right hemispheres of the brain are separated and can no longer communicate. To test this Gazzaniga and Sperry had run different experiments to test the visual‚ tactile‚ and auditory abilities of split-brain patients who had surgically severed the corpus callosum which allowed for the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate. To test their visual abilities patients had sat in front of a board with a
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Distinctiveness between the right and left hemisphere of the brain Word Count: 995 Abstract The brain assymetry experiment is to investigate on the distinctiveness of the right and left hemisphere in the brain as each hemisphere has certain specializations. The experiment were carried out by initially asking the 25 participant on whether they were left or right handed and they had to choose the chimeric image which appeared younger to them. Laterality quotients were calculated in order to
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Gelotology is the study of humor and laughter‚ and its effects on the human body. It is also the psychological and physiological study of laughter. The word is from the Greek gelos‚ geloto meaning laugh‚ laughter‚ laughing. A gelotologist is a person who specializes in gelotology. The word gelotology is often misspelled as gelatology. There is well documented and ongoing research in this field of study. Studies of this include all aspects of the human body a brief description of the influence
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Name: Danielle Milne Driving and the Brain 15 points total Due: February 11th How might each of the following parts of the brain be active while driving a car? Note: Some brain structures may be more active under certain driving conditions‚ while others may be active regardless of conditions (10 points). 1. Medulla: Controls heartbeat & breathing Regulates breathing and heart rate while we concentrate on driving 2. Cerebellum: Influences memory and learning; Coordinates voluntary
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Being Human and Self-Awareness Throughout the entirety of The Tell Tale Brain the author‚ V.S Ramachandran makes distinct points regarding what makes humans‚ well human. He describes this determining factor as self-awareness. In his book he points out that self-awareness not only makes us human but also wants us to be more. Essentially‚ it makes us always want to be better than what we are and‚ as humans‚ this is unique to only us. Ramachandran defines self-awareness as “This aspect of the self
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The brain is one of the most important vital organs that make up the human body. It is the body’s control center and plays a role in every function that humans perform by sending and receiving signals to and from all of the parts of the human body. The brain has three different components that make up its structure and those components are the cerebrum‚ cerebellum‚ and brain stem. Each of theses components can each be broken down into their own individual parts and each of those parts plays a role
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PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF LOVE Being in love is one of those life experiences that many people desire. Since ancient times‚ love has been the force that has motivated writers‚ such William Shakespeare who wrote o his famous play “Romeo and Juliet”‚ and painters such Vincent Van Gogh that incited by the love for Margot Begemann‚ one of his muses‚ to paint momentous paintings. Paris and Helen of Troy’s love lead to one of the most famous wars‚ The Trojan War. Because of love‚ Emperor
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DEM 201 1.1- Dementia are the signs and symptoms caused as a result of specific diseases such as Alzheimer’s or a stroke that involve the damaging of brain cells; as the brain cells die the person with a dementia will lose their ability to do things they are used to doing as different parts of the brain are damaged. Dementia affects both older and younger people and the decline in the person will get worse as more brain cells are damaged or die. 1.2-The main areas of the brain that are affected
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