BRAIN STRUCTURES‚ ETYMOLOGY and FUNCTIONS STRUCTURE ETYMOLOGY FUNCTION Prefrontal Cortex (or Frontal Lobe) “relating to the forehead” “hull‚ husk‚ pod” (Chudler‚ n. d.) Controls executive functions such as judgment‚ managing emotional characteristics‚ voluntary movement‚ reasoning‚ memory‚ and language skills (Kahn‚ 2012) Temporal Lobe “temples of the head” “hull‚ husk‚ pod” (Chudler‚ n. d.) Manages hearing‚ speech‚ and auditory functions (Kahn‚ 2012) Occipital Lobe
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"How can the study of brain damage inform our understanding of the human brain? The study of brain injury is an imperative tool when trying to understand the in-depth workings of “the most complex object in the known universe”. We have been studying the brain for thousands of years. From Hippocrates in 468BC‚ describing epilepsy as a disturbance of the brain‚ to our modern day MRI and CT scans able to image the brain in great detail our knowledge is always growing. However the study of
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One Brain or Two May 15‚ 2013 In the 1960s Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga conducted human neurological studies in California to determine a better understanding regarding the communication of the brain’s hemispheres. Through their research we have learned many things about human brain function. The experiment involved removing the cause of epilepsy in severely affected individuals by severing the corpus callosum nerve fibers thereby separating left hemisphere from right. Many of the daily motions
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The human brain is unique. It is part of your central nervous system which contains billions or nerve cells and trillions of support cells. The brain is the central computer that controls all bodily functions; the nervous system relays messages from the brain to different parts of the body. It gives us the power to think‚ plan‚ speak‚ and imagine. It controls body temperature‚ blood pressure‚ heart rate‚ and breathing. The brain also accepts information about the world around you from your
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The brain is an amazing arrangement. It is the most rigid and interesting part of the human body. It is like a computer that controls every part of the body. The brain consist of many millions of neurons cells that support the brain system this is called Glial cells (Pinel 2011 p.55) The neurons in the brain process information and these are the nervous system communication device. Neurons can be broken down into four structures. These are soma‚ the cell body which shields and protect the nucleus
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PS101 Take home exam Secret life of the brain 7 November 2013 The Baby’s Brain: Wider Than The Sky Explain migrations-how millions of neurons travel in waves and follow cues along the way telling them exactly where to go? Neurons travel everyday in millions to carry out different task. It’s fascinating how they travel as if they are traveling across the country. They’re following cues along the way that are telling them exactly where to go. Evidence shows that young neurons have an idea
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the first day of class‚ we had a wonderful guest speaker who came from Japan to speak with us on different aspects pertaining to Indians living in Japan. Yuka Mizutani discussed how many Indians lived in Japan‚ but the Japanese government only wants the world to see them as only having Japanese people. As a result of this‚ the Indians had to blend in with the normal Japanese people and they were not allowed to have their own cultural identity. They were forced to speak and write Japanese to make them
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Motivation and the Brain Paper Neuroscience and psychology seem to have been working together to try to understand how and why certain behaviors transpire in a person’s personality‚ and what makes or motivates a person to do the things they do. One of the most analyzed wonders that mark motivation‚ the thought developments‚ and the social interaction‚ is the analysis of drug obsession. Through advance forms of scanning the brain with imaging equipment like positron emission tomography (PET) and
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Amazing Brain Magalenn Cotton Concordia University EDGR 535 Theories of Teaching and Learning Instructor: Stephanie Murphy MY AMAZING BRAIN Abstract In this paper I with reveal some amazing facts that I’ve learned about the brain and how it functions. I will give new meaning to the phrase‚ “I changed my mind.” This paper will shed light to the fact of teenagers making poor choices because of what is happening in their brain. I will briefly discuss the impact of stress
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The Brain and Behavior Essay BEH/225 June 15‚2015 University of Phoenix Axia College The Brain and Behavior Essay The human brain is a complex and sophisticated organ. Understanding the function of the brain is often limited to the understanding of the brains areas with regard to how these areas respond to stimuli or in cases of damage. Much of the understanding of the brain is rooted in observation of damaged brains and their correlation of impaired function with specific areas of damage
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