For many years‚ there has been a myth of brain lateralization. It is believed that there are preferences over the two types of thinking based on a person’s brain dominance. Theories says that there is a left brain and a right-brain that controls the person’s thoughts. Our understanding of the brain and mind interaction has changed through studied that offers us a clearer picture of the brain and their bizarre forms of intellect. A substantial amount of research has been done in hopes of understanding
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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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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. Computers have changed the way we are living for ever. Every person in this planet should have the skill of dealing with computers because they have come with unbelievable features and functions. They do a work faster than any human by programming the desired work and let it be done by computers‚ facilitate the educational process by presenting and finding information clearly and rapidly.
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HOW THE BRAIN WORKS Everything we do‚ every thought we have is produced by the human brain. Despite the brains intelligence it can still be fooled by a simple magic trick. Also according to the video I watched its shows how a magnetic wind can control a human body and their speech when attached to the head. Brains are like finger prints and they are totally different as everybody. Exactly how the brain operates remains one of the biggest mysteries. Tyson‚ who is the movie interpreter‚ went to Las
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House and his split brain patient in various ways‚ such as their views about the right and left hemispheres of the brain‚ their unspoken self-governed thoughts or actions of their right hemispheres‚ and their realization of what their right hemisphere was trying to tell them. Both House and his split brain patient‚ have different views about the right hemisphere of the brain. When the split brain patients file was being reviewed by House and his team‚ House stated that the left brain had ‘language‚
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number of different sizes‚ shapes‚ appearances‚ genders‚ ethnicity and ages. However‚ when you look on their insides – their brain’s for example‚ you may see some similarities which link them together. For instance‚ the Amygdala- the place in the brain which focuses on fear‚ aggression‚ social interaction etc…is involved in crimes. In a study done at the University of Pittsburgh‚ the team conducting the experiments noticed that lower amygdala volumes could cause drastic differences in whether an
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The Brain I. Supporting structures Anatomy of the Brain 3 Major Areas: Cerebrum-consists of two hemispheres (thalamus and hypothalamus) that are incompletely separated by the great longitudinal fissure 4 Lobes: Frontal-major functions are concentration‚ abstract thought‚ information storage or memory‚ and motor function. It also contains Broca’s area‚ critical for motor control of speech Parietal-analyzes sensory information and relays the interpretation of the info to the thalamus. It
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Physical changes have a bigger impact on the brain than chemical changes. Some injuries to change the brain include concussions‚ tumors‚ assault‚ lobotomies‚ and accidents. A concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the aftereffects such as confusion‚ dizziness‚ and lightheadedness. Concussions can usually be caused by sports or any other accidents to the head. A specific part of a brain could be either damaged or bruised. A violent
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1)Old Age Abuse= Mrs Aruna‚ 85 years old‚ lost her husband last year. Because of her own problems with arthritis and congestive heart failure‚ Aruna moved in with her 55-year-old daughter‚ Suvarnai. The situation is difficult for all of them. Sometimes Suvarna feels as if she’s at the end of her rope‚ caring for her mother‚ worrying about her college-age son and about her husband‚ who is about to be forced into early retirement. Suvarna has caught herself calling her mother names and accusing her
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If you think of the brain as a central computer that controls all the functions of your body‚ then the nervous system is like a network that relays messages back and forth from it to different parts of the body. It does this via the spinal cord‚ which runs from the brain down through the back and contains threadlike nerves that branch out to every organ and body part. When a message comes into the brain from anywhere in the body‚ the brain tells the body how to react. For example‚ if you accidentally
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