seizures show widespread involvement throughout the entire brain. A complex partial seizure is associated with impairment of consciousness while a simple partial seizure is not. Most complex partial seizures originate from the temporal lobe and are also called temporal lobe seizures. Epileptics frequently have more than one type of seizure. When simple partial seizure precedes a complex partial seizure‚ it is referred to as an aura. Convulsions are sudden‚ violent‚ involuntary contraction of the muscles
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Psychology Goes to the Movies -The Face in the Crowd The face in the crowd is a movie featuring a woman‚ Anna Marchant after surviving an attack by women serial killer. Anna fell over the bridge and hit her head over the railings as she was trying to escape from the killer after witnessing him commit a murder. This accident left Anna with a condition known as prosopagnosia‚ a brain disorder commonly describes as face blindness. This injury prevents Anna from recognizing faces‚ including the face
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Part I Note: Parts II and III follow below‚ complete all three. Write a 350- to 700-word response to the following: Explain the communication process of neurons in the brain. List some common neurotransmitters and describe their effect on behavior. There are 2 neurons afferent neurons these carry messages to the central nervous system. Efferent neurons carry messages from the central nervous system. Neurons communicate through voltage changes. This can sometimes lead to quick action reaction
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is dangerous to their self and other people around them would cause them to be admitted. B) college student with damage to the temporal lobe - A college student who has damage to their temporal lobe would be able to plea for the insanity defense and could be admitted into a psychiatric ward. The reason why is because when a person damage their temporal lobe from an attacked they could loss or change one disturbance of auditory sensation and perception‚ two disturbance of selective attention
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Coup and countrecoup are classified as primary brain injury that is caused by direct impact and can be focal‚ affecting one area of the brain‚ or diffuse‚ involving more than one area of the brain. A bruise or contusion is caused by force that damages or destroys blood vessels. Coup and contrecoup injuries are contusions that result from a blow to the head‚ which leads to the brain to slam against the inside of the skull. Furthermore‚ coup injury is brain contusion that occurs at the point of impact
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of 40 to 70. They develop in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Glioblastomas can
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What is the advantage of having a cerebrum that is highly convoluted? What term is used to indicate its crooves? Its outward folds? What groove divides the crebrum into two hemispheres? What divides the parietal from the frontal lobe? The parietal from the temporal lobe? Convoluted cerebrum allows more neurons to occupy the limited space ridges are called gyri shallow grooves are called sulci and deeper grooves are called fissures
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Central Nervous System: The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord. The brain controls bodily functions. The cerebrum is the largest part of the brain in humans. The cerebrum is the last place that information travels through in the brain. The spinal cord is the part of the body that communicates between the brain and the nerves that connect to the spinal cord. The spinal cord is commonly known as a pathway from the brain to the body. Peripheral Nervous System: The peripheral
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Discuss the relationship between the cognitive and biological features of Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative condition which is associated with the progressive loss of neurons and nerve cells‚ this causes people to lose their cognitive abilities such as their memory and their personalities begin to change. This is due to the fact that the disease pervades most areas of the brain. However the developing pattern of damage varies for each individual meaning each person
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Her memory of Edward telling her to not be reckless and to take care of her replayed in her head every time she does something reckless. The recurring memory stimulates by her emotions and the traumatizing memory stored in the temporal lobes stimulated her occipital lobe for her to actually “see” Edward again. The shock of adrenaline and dopamine rushed through her body as soon as she does something suicidal or reckless. This presented Borderline Personality Disorder various times when she went
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