Depending on the type of stroke‚ different areas of the brain will be affected‚ but generally speaking if the frontal lobe is affected ones motor skills‚ higher processing‚ speech‚ and planning will be affected. If the parietal lobe is affected ones association areas and attention areas will be affected. If the occipital lobe is affected ones vision would be affected. If the temporal lobe was affected ones memory and emotions would be affected as well. TYPES OF STROKE There are four different
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Question 1 Question text Neurons _____. Select one: a. transmit neural impulses. b. support and nourish glial cells. c. each have only one dendrite. d. are one kind of neurotransmitter. Question 2 Question text A synapse is the _____. Select one: a. same as the action potential. b. junction where neurons communicate with one another. c. chemical that travels from one neuron to another. d. signal that travels from one neuron to another. Question 3 Question text
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Unit 4222-371 Understanding and enable positive interaction and communication with individuals who have dementia Outcome 1 Understand the factors that can affect interaction and communication of individuals with Dementia 1 Explain how different forms of dementia may affect the way an individual communicates Alzheimer’s disease is a combination of genetic and environmental factors which during the course of the disease a number of chemical and structural changes happen within the brain. Alzheimer’s
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Assignment Brief HSC Number 1 Task type: Question and answers‚ with reflection where applicable. Pathway: NR Task reference: Task name: Unit 33 Description of Task: Questions to demonstrate your knowledge of the process and experience of Dementia. Scope of Task The following areas are to be covered / discussed / referred to in your answers: Causes of dementia. Types of memory impairment. How individuals process information. Other causes of behavioural changes. Personality changes. Changes
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of the brain you probably think of a wrinkled gray blob. Well‚ the wrinkles are called cortex and it is where the majority of brain cells or neurons reside. The cortex can be divided into four main lobes. The frontal lobe‚ where you do your heavy thinking‚ pondering and planning your actions; temporal cortex‚ where you process sounds and form memories; occipital cortex‚ where you process all the things that you see; and parietal cortex‚ where you integrate or makes sense of all of the different bits
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Chapter 48 Nervous Systems Lecture Outline Overview: Command and Control Center The human brain contains an estimated 1011 (100 billion) neurons. Each neuron may communicate with thousands of other neurons in complex information-processing circuits. Recently developed technologies can record brain activity from outside the skull. One technique is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)‚ which reconstructs a 3-D map of the subject’s brain activity. The results of brain imaging and other
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the autonomic nervous system? What bodily functions are associated with each? 29 What is a simple reflex pathway? Sensory neurons? Motor neurons? Interneurons? The BRAIN 30 How are the functions of the brain organized? What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex? What functions are associated with each? What is the Corpus callosum? the prefrontal cortex? Who was Phineas
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have taken place after his illness; he also suffers from retrograde amnesia‚ which refers to him being unable to remember places‚ things and events before his illness means he is unable to store memory. The hippocampus and sections of his frontal and temporal lobe are damaged due to the infection. The hippocampus which transfers short-term memory to long term memory is damaged due to the viral infection that affected his nervous system. With this said an account could be given of why he is unable to
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of the Lobotomy Friederich Golz believed that brain surgery would be beneficial for people diagnosed with a mental illness. In 1890‚ Golz experimented on his dog to determine what kinds of effects humans might experience after portions of their temporal lobes were removed. After conducting the procedure‚ he considered his dog to be calmer and less aggressive. Fascinated by the idea of brain surgery‚ Gottlieb Burkhardt decided to attempt this type of surgery on six patients who had a diagnosis of schizophrenia
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Opposing Viewpoint On The Purpose Of Education Within ones early stages of life‚ our parents along with many other authority figures have instilled in us that education is the key to all success. One is taught to work hard in school‚ to study‚ and ultimately to get good grades in our early years of schooling to prepare us for what many see as the last step in our education‚ college. Education has made made freely available to our children at an equal opportunity and again has been instilled
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