get into a crash or if you are cooking‚ chances are you have a risk of stabbing or burning yourself by accident. In this case‚ whenever you participate in a sport‚ you have the risk of getting a concussion. What is a concussion? A concussion is a brain injury caused by a blow to the head or a violent shaking of the head and body. "The Centers for Disease control estimates more than 300‚000 sports-related concussions occur each year in the United States." (Article One) In teens‚ controversy has come
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Handout Master 2.1 Mapping the Brain Draw a Brain ( or Download if you want) Label the diagram of the brain to show or answer the following questions. 1. Is this a drawing of the left side or the right side of the brain? What are the particular functions of that side of the brain as compared to the other hemisphere? Right side of the brain Left side functions: considered to be adept at task Right side functions: best at expressive that involve logic‚ language and analytical thinking
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To begin‚ I must clarify how the brain works. The brain is made up of tiny cells‚ called neurons. They communicate by tiny electric movements called synapses that combine in certain patterns to control everything we do: sleep‚ walk‚ think‚ and feel. The synapses happen as a result of outside stimuli. A clear example is when a person gets too close to a candle. Their nervous system sends the stimulus to the brain‚ which tells the finger to back away from the flame. However‚ the synapses wouldn’t happen
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Roger Sperry’s Theory of Brain Lateralization Abdul Raouf Abdul Razak B1301605 PSY111 Help University Dr Eugene Tee‚ Alex Lui‚ Dr Goh Chee Leong Human brain was thought of as a whole equally functional unit. Recent discoveries have showed that the human brain is divided into two distinctive hemispheres with distinctive functions. Most commonly in the human brain‚ the left hemisphere controls logical thinking‚ while the right hemisphere controls creativity. Although‚ patients
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The Infant brain begins to develop a few weeks after conception‚ and most of the definable structures begin to develop at about eight weeks after conception. The first synapses occur seven weeks into the pregnancy within the spinal cord. Synapses occurs when neurons pass signals between each other to relay and receive information. A neuron consists of a cell body‚ multiple dendrites‚ and an axon. The cell body serves as the command center for the neuron‚ it contains DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and
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Irma Janet Cazarez February 5‚ 2014 English 12 Beowulf : Movie or Poem? Before watching the Beowulf movie‚ I had the opportunity to read the poem along with ghthe class. I thought the movie was going to be a slight different from the epic poem‚ but that it was still going to stick to the message that the poem had given us. As we started to watch the movie‚ I noticed that I as completely wrong because the movie is almost completely different from the epic poem. The movie kept very few
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Early life experiences‚ positive and negative‚ have a profound effect on brain development. Neurobiological changes that occur due to problems experienced during childhood can lead to lifelong complications. These complications‚ as a result of the early childhood trauma and maltreatment‚ are most predominately found in the interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning difficulties that emerge later in life. The problems that are easiest to identify from an outside perspective are the difficulties
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Localization of Brain Function Shaun Mitchell 104281411 Case 1. Dr. Holmes sees a series of patients with gunshot injuries to parts of their frontal lobes. The location of the damage to each person’s brain is indicated in the drawing. Patient 1 has some paralysis of his right hip and thigh muscles. Patient 2 has paralyzed trunk muscles on his right side. Patient 3’s right arm is paralyzed. Patient 4 shows paralysis of the muscles on the right side of her face. A. What method
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Differences between male and female brain "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus"‚ most of us have heard this popular expression‚ which went on to become the name of a bestselling book on male female relationships. The limbic system of the male brain is larger than in a female’s brain. This may explain why a woman is more in touch with her feelings. This is also said to explain a women’s intuition. A woman is considered to be naturally more nurturing towards child‚ and are also able to have
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Brain Activity During Sleep Imagine spending 1/3 of your life doing something and not knowing why you do it or what purpose is behind it. Sleep is one of the greatest mysteries that science is struggling with. It was once considered an inactive or passive state in which the mind used to recuperate from the day. This of course is not true‚ since the brain is in active stages while asleep and sometimes may even reach to a higher state of awareness than when awake. This fact has bewildered many scientists
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