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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The Brain and Cognitive Functions Centuries of philosophy and science have been dedicated to unraveling the mystery behind how cognition occurs‚ how it maps to areas of the brain‚ and to what degree cognition is dependant upon these various areas in which cognitive activities are located. Modern neuroscience has helped tremendously to provide some answers as have tests on brain trama patients such as Phineas Gage which revealed startling changes in individual behavior that can be linked to damage
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Adolescent Brain Maturation and Cortical Folding: Evidence for Reductions in Gyrification Daniel Klein1‚2‚ Anna Rotarska-Jagiela1‚ Erhan Genc1‚2‚ Sharmili Sritharan1‚2‚ Harald Mohr3‚4‚ Frederic Roux1‚2‚ Cheol E. Han5‚ Marcus Kaiser5‚6‚ Wolf Singer1‚2‚7‚ Peter J. Uhlhaas1‚2‚8* 1 Department of Neurophysiology‚ Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research‚ Frankfurt am Main‚ Germany‚ 2 Ernst Stru¨ngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society‚ Frankfurt am Main‚ Germany‚ 3
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Brain Mechanisms of Fear Extinction: Historical Perspectives on the Contribution of Prefrontal Cortex Francisco Sotres-Bayon‚ Christopher K. Cain‚ and Joseph E. LeDoux What brain regions are involved in regulating behavior when the emotional consequence of a stimulus changes from harmful to harmless? One way to address this question is to study the neural mechanisms underlying extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning‚ an important form of emotional regulation that has direct relevance to the treatment
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Critically evaluate to what extent the ‘somatic-marker hypothesis’ explains how decisions are made in the face of an uncertain outcome. In mind of Kim Sterelny’s (2007) statement that ‘Human Life is one long decision tree’‚ it is not surprising that there has been a vast amount of research into the process of how we evaluate the desirability of alternative choices and select a particular option. One area of research‚ of particular interest here‚ is Damasio’s Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH) (1991)
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in cognitive psychology is that of Phineas Gage. A man who suffered from an injury to his prefrontal lobes thirty years before the field of Psychology even began (Moulin‚ 2006). However‚ psychologists’ continue to study his brain and the effects of his injury and its role in cognitive functions years later. Phineas Gage was a foreman at a railroad who suffered damage to his prefrontal lobes as a result of an accidental explosion in the year 1848. This explosion caused an iron bar about a meter
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The Mind of a Psychopath – Biological Factors Brain & Behavior Famous serial killers like Ed Gein and Ted Bundy have turned what we only believed to be true in movies and books‚ into a reality. Ed Gein‚ an American serial killer and body snatcher‚ took corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. After police found body parts in his house in 1957‚ Gein confessed to killing two women. Nearly 14 years later‚ Ted Bundy‚ another
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1 Why is the story of Phineas Gage considered so extraordinary? What does his story teach us about the brain? Phineas Gages’s story is so extra ordinary because a metal rod was impaled through his head and destroyed most of his frontal lobe. His story has taught us that different parts of the brain control different things and the part of his brain that got injured effects a person’s memory‚ personality‚ and emotion. 2 New research is using functional MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)‚ a scan of
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brain that support certain cognitive functions. For example‚ the area in the brain that is more dorsal and anterior than any other area in the brain is known as the frontal lobe. According to Grieve (2010)‚ the frontal lobe supports many cognitive functions. Examples of the cognitive functions that are supported in the frontal lobe are elimination of inappropriate social responses‚ understanding impending outcomes‚ and blunting emotions (Grieve‚ 2010). Another area in the brain that supports cognitive
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This evening we are going to address the subject of associations and how the people that you choose to associate with will affect your life on this earth and in the life to come. We will also discuss how whom you associate with can affect your health and wellbeing. In Messages to Young People pg. 31‚ Ellen White makes a statement about associations‚ and the affect they can have on your life. “O that every one might realize that he is the arbiter of his own destiny! Your happiness for this life
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