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    difficulties with their functions are: 1) Frontal Lobe – this is the part of the brain that controls behaviour‚ movement‚ personality and the interpretation of what is around us 2) Parietal Lobe – this is the part of the brain that controls the language we use‚ spacial awareness and recognition of places‚ objects and people. 3) Occipital Lobe – this is the part of the brain that controls eyesight and our ability to see 4) Temporal Lobe – this is the part of the brain that controls our speech

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    the video‚ a woman described Frontal Temporal degeneration as a “progressive brain diseases attack and destroys ultimately a person’s ability to talk‚ think‚ walk‚ makes decisions‚ and show emotions”. When there is damage to the frontal lobe and/or temporal lobe alters a person’s behavior‚ their planning and organizing skills‚ as well as affecting their relationship with other people. The title of the video is “It is what it is”‚ the phrase instill a sense of acceptance in a situation that makes

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    potentials (ERPs) ∙Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) ∙Position emmision tomography (PET) ∙Near-infrared optical topography (NIROT) [Slide 8] Regions of the Cerebral Cortex ∙Frontal lobe -reasoning ∙Temporal lobe -hearing and speech ∙Occipital lobe -processing sight ∙Parietal lobe -balance [Slide 9] Lateralization of Cerebral Cortex [Slide 10] Brain Plasticity ∙In infants and young children‚ parts of the brain are not yet specialized. ∙Recover better

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    THE FRONTAL LOBE HAVE MORE THAN ONE FUNCTION DISCUSS. ILLUSTRATING YOUR ANSWERS WITH REFERENCE TO AT LEAST TWO POSSIBLE ROLES OF THE FRONTAL LOBE. The frontal lobes are considered our emotional control centre and home to our personality. There is no other part of the brain where lesions can cause such a wide variety of symptoms (Kolb & Wishaw‚ 1990). The frontal lobes are involved in motor function‚ problem solving‚ spontaneity‚ memory‚ language‚ initiation‚ judgment‚ impulse control‚ and social

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    or "engine"‚ nor would they say that it was a lion creating the noise. Auditory agnosia is caused by damage to the secondary and tertiary auditory cortex of the temporal lobe of the brain. Semantic-associative This type of auditory agnosia is caused by lesions to the left hemisphere of the brain‚ specifically the temporal lobes and Wernicke’s area. Linguistic (or verbal information or Wernicke’s) agnosia indicates that the subject can’t comprehend words‚ although they can understand words using

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    children is the number three: throw a spear; because this is an important exercise in child health‚ as any given muscle adds strength to the whole system and that applies to your brain. On the other hand these practice stimulate the frontal and parietal lobes‚ which have to do with visual acuity‚ 3D understanding‚ and structural problem solving‚ so it gives a sense‚ it helps develop their visualization skills and their predictive ability. These kinds of target-based practice also help kids develop

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    disease and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia. 2. AREA OF THE BRAIN KEY FUNCTIONING that could be affected by dementia Frontal lobe Movement ‚ emotional behaviour ‚ personality interpretation and feeling Parietal lobe Language ‚ spacial awareness and recognition Temporal lobe Long-term memory‚speech and hearing Occipital lobe Vision Cerebellum Balance ‚ posture muscle coordination Hypothalamus Regulates thirst‚apetite‚body temperature and also sleep cycles and patterns of

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    PSYCH Ch. 3 Neurosystem (Central Nervous System) CNS – Brain & Spinal Cord (Peripheral) PNS Soma – cell body‚ contains nucleus and much of chemical machinery common to most cells Dendrite – part of neuron that is specialized to receive information Axon – transmits information away from the soma to other neurons/muscles/glands Action potential – brief period where channels open and it changes chemical reaction within cell Absolute Refractory Period – minimum length of time after an

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    Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain 1 of 11 http://www.pnas.org/content/107/30/13485.full Top Abstract Model: Deriving the Network Description Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences www.pnas.org (/) > Current Issue (/content/107/30.toc) > vol. 107 no. 30 > Results Dharmendra S. Modha‚ 13485–13490 Discussion (/content Acknowledgments Footnotes Dharmendra S. Modha (/search?author1=Dharmendra+S.+Modha&sortspec=date&submit=Submit)

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    Meditation and the Brain Caitlin Scofield BACK-STORY "It is the face of our shadow that stares at us from across the iron curtain." - Jung        I have never known nor feigned to know what it is I step into when I step forward. Last night I happened upon a question that shook me and left an unsettling feeling in my bones‚ like a call to look in‚ to traverse through darkness unarmed. I was beckoned to seek the meaning of my life. I have a way of intellectualizing things‚ of making them

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