Something that surprised me the most in this radio interview about the teenage brain was how adolescents have a higher risk of substance addiction compared to adults (Jensen & Gross‚ 2015). Substances are more toxic and permanent on teenage brains than adult brains (Jensen & Gross‚ 2015). Originally‚ I thought that adults would get addicted faster because they often resort to caffeine to wake up‚ cigarettes to manage hassles‚ and other medications to relieve depression and stress (Berk‚ 2009). On
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What is Brain Chemistry? Brain chemistry or neurochemistry is the complex system which allows the brain to function with the use of chemicals known as neurotransmitters which move information around in the brain. Every person’s brain chemistry is slightly different‚ and a number of things can play a role in the levels of various neurotransmitters in the brain‚ and how those chemicals affect the brain’s function. It is believed that difference in brain chemistry may explain a variety of behavioral
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|Region of the Brain |Location |Primary Function |Specific activities/ |Icons/ Keys foe for map | | | | |Processes | | |Cerebrum | the anterior portion of the|Determining Intelligence‚ |Vision‚ muscle coordination‚|Eyes‚ ears‚ smiley face‚ | | |forebrain and is superior to|Determining
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The impact on athletes that play high impact sports are devastating and mind blowing. High impact sports would include football‚ soccer‚ and ice hockey. These sports cause massive trauma and injuries to the brain. While sports are fun and part of everyday life‚ high impact sports can be dangerous to kids and younger adults and every 1 in 3 players will have brain injuries and/or C.T.E. and it will affect their brain for the worse before it’s developed. First‚ high impact sports can be dangerous
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process‚ which is modulated by the reptilian brain. During occasions of fear‚ the thinking brain can literally shut down and cause you to react in an entirely automatic‚ unconscious‚ and -- all too often‚ irrational way. The neocortex‚ the limbic and reptilian brains are interactive and signals travel in all directions. Thoughts originating in the neocortex‚ become chemicals that engender emotions in the limbic system that manifest as vivid imagery and corresponding "body felt sensations‚" resulting
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Brain drain Brain drain is an often a familiar expression. This refers to the export‚ or going out of Indian brains to different countries. We term it as a drain of the brains; for‚ it is believed that the India is at a loss‚ when our best brains work for other countries leaving some lesser brains. Let us analyze why there was so much of mass depature of brainpower from India and regulate such drain by some norms. It is a matter of pride for Indians that the world‚ as of today‚ has recognized the
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The brain for memory The brain is the most important organ‚ and any animal‚ even mosquitoes have them. However‚ have you thought any special ability of the brain‚ or have you imagined about your personality‚ emotion or memory in the situation which you lost a part of brain? In fact‚ there are lots of great abilities such as memory in the brain without our notice. Although‚ all the brain’s tasks are not clear completely‚ a lot of scientists have researched it and found its several miraculous functions
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The lobes of the brain. The cerebral cortex maybe be broken up into four lobes. Each lobe is named after the bones of the skull that cover them. In the very front is the frontal lobe‚ and behind that is the parietal lobe. At the very back of the brain we find the occipital lobe. And curving around each side of the brain we find the temporal lobe. Because the brain is made of two hemispheres there are pairs of each lobe. Frontal lobe: The most forward of the four lobes of the cerebral cortex
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eenage brain is really hard to understand‚ because it has not been developed to its extent. In this article the writer is absolutely correct about human brain and especially teenage brain. At their adolescent time different hormones get released at the same time and it is hard for the body and brain to work normally under that much pressure. Now days teenagers does not think about the circumstance of their actions.The teenage brain article focused on the biological changes a young teenager goes through
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