Pain Veronica Tran Essay #1 Psy 1 (#48954) Pain Everyone everywhere will experience pain; whether it is everyday or once a week. Paper cuts‚ pinches‚ or even simply jamming your fingers between your door‚ are all painful accidents. Pain is the undesirable feeling; the red alert which signals our attention to something unfavorable happening to our bodies. Our bodies can detect pain by nocioceptors. Nocioceptors are special nerve receptors designed for stimuli that are encountered as painful
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THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM Every behavior begins with biology. Our behaviors‚ as well as our thoughts and feelings‚ are produced by the actions of our brains‚ nerves‚ muscles‚ and glands. In this chapter we will begin our journey into the world of psychology by considering the biological makeup of the human being‚ including the most remarkable of human organs—the brain. We’ll consider the structure of the brain and also the methods that psychologists use to study the brain and to understand how it
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The reason for this presentation is to explain the case study of Mrs. S. and give valuable information on contralateral neglect‚ impact of the massive stroke‚ regions of the brain that were affected‚ deficits experienced by Mrs. S.‚ and therapies and behavioral modification that have been explored by continueing this case study with Mrs. S and her need to turn circles. Mrs. S.’s stroke had left her unable to recognize or respond to things to the left—including external objects as well as parts
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In this paper‚ I will be discussing the normal physiology of the basal ganglia‚ or basal nuclei‚ how the different structures within are involved with motor functions‚ and how dysfunctions within the basal ganglia lead to movement disorders. The basal ganglia are a group of interconnected subcortical structures composed primarily of the striatum‚ pallidum‚ substantia nigra‚ and the subthalamic nucleus. These structures span across the diencephalon‚ telencephalon‚ and the midbrain‚ and lie under
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Psychology Goes to the Movies -The Face in the Crowd The face in the crowd is a movie featuring a woman‚ Anna Marchant after surviving an attack by women serial killer. Anna fell over the bridge and hit her head over the railings as she was trying to escape from the killer after witnessing him commit a murder. This accident left Anna with a condition known as prosopagnosia‚ a brain disorder commonly describes as face blindness. This injury prevents Anna from recognizing faces‚ including the face
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Analysing research has demonstrated a large number of perspectives on hemispheric preference of facial recognition. The right hemisphere is indicated to be the part of the brain responsible for processing visual information in comparison to the left hemisphere which is more for language and analytical processing. Studies such as the preference test have reinforced this. Other studies on hemispheric preference include examining emotions‚ facial memory‚ facial features encouraging hemispherical preference
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In class were briefly touched on the subject of mirror neurons‚ which are neurons that fire when an animal acts or observes the same action done by another. We learned that these neurons exist primarily in the ventral premotor cortex F5 areas of a monkey’s brain. Experiments proved that neurons in the VPC F5 area fire when a monkey does an action‚ but also fire when a monkey watches a human do the same action. However‚ when the monkey watches the human just carry out the motions of the action‚ not
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Free will is fundamental to human existence (Arnason‚ 2011). Neuroscience implies that free will is not a defining feature of humanness‚ but is in fact an illusion concealed by biochemical complexity (Burns & Bechara‚ 2007). Developments in neuroscience have led us to question our views about whether we have conscious free will (Heisenberg‚ 2009; Nahmias‚ 2009; Smith‚ 2011). Various experiments into the phenomenon appear to show that we do not have conscious free will‚ however these experiments have
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Unit 4222-237 Dementia awareness (DEM 201) 1.1 Dementia is a loss of brain function. If affects memory‚ thinking‚ language‚ judgement and behaviour. Dementia is progressive‚ so the symptoms will gradually get worse. In a later stage of dementia people will find it hard to carry out daily tasks and will come dependant on other people. 1.2 The key functions of the brain that is affected by dementia are: · The Frontal lobe; which is to do with behaviour‚ the person’s personality‚ interpretation
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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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