Jordan Borgerding Real World Case Study of Brain Injury The Last Hippie is the story of a young male‚ Greg F.‚ who suffers profound cognitive alterations and brain damage as a result of a midline tumor. Greg F. was born and grew in the 1950s‚ in a comfortable household in Queens‚ with both parents. He used to be a gifted boy‚ with an ambition for songwriting. With time‚ Greg started to question the principles and conventions of his life with parents; a teenager in the late sixties‚
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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 of information
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from a professional. I assume there’s gotta be help for most‚ if not all‚ mental issues out there. Another thing I found to be very compelling was the reading about the Structure of the Cortex. It’s truly amazing what scientist have discovered about the human body. They are able to subdivide each hemisphere’s cortex into four lobes‚ separated by prominent fissures or folds. You have the frontal lobes Wright 2 that are located behind the forehead‚ the partial lobes that are located at the top and
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Introduction The cingulate gyrus is a stretch of cortex directly dorsal to the corpus callosum and can be split into multiple areas: the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)‚ middle cingulate cortex‚ and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). Each of these subsections has different structural characteristics and neuronal projections that characterize their individual cortical areas and functions (Stevens et al.‚ 2011). The ACC has been functionally tied to several behaviors‚ including decision-making‚ socially
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(Optional) Scientists have used a drawing called a motor homunculus to show the connection between different body parts and areas of the brain. This drawing is a cartoon of the human body‚ where the bigger the body parts‚ the more area of the motor cortex that is dedicated to controlling them. If you were to draw this figure‚ what body parts do you think would be most exaggerated? Explain. The face‚ especially the mouth and tongue‚ and the hands. These body parts are exaggerated because they are directly
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assert in their article “When the Brain Plays Music: Auditory–Motor Interactions in Music Perception and Productions‚” that the premotor cortex (PMC) is involved in both direct and indirect auditory–motor interactions. To further understand the different parts of their assertion‚ they divide the PMC into two parts: ventral premotor cortex (vPMC) and dorsal premotor cortex (dPMC). According to their observations‚ the vPMC is involved in what they call “direct visuomotor transformations” (554). This means
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In class were briefly touched on the subject of mirror neurons‚ which are neurons that fire when an animal acts or observes the same action done by another. We learned that these neurons exist primarily in the ventral premotor cortex F5 areas of a monkey’s brain. Experiments proved that neurons in the VPC F5 area fire when a monkey does an action‚ but also fire when a monkey watches a human do the same action. However‚ when the monkey watches the human just carry out the motions of the action‚ not
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The five senses are taste‚ hearing‚ sight‚smell and touch these senses help the most. The senses help your memory for immediately remembering something.When consolidation happens it’s most likely to remember that part of your life. If you were to promise a friend to hangout then completely forget this probably means that your subconscious isn’t convinced that hanging out with this person will be convenient. This is the same way with dreams‚ If you remember a dream‚ it might mean something in your
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done of the effects of the internet that were done on the brain. The experimented was a total of 24 people‚ 12 new users and 12 expert users of Google. Their brains were scanned under supervision and the differences were shown; the expert’s frontal cortex seemed to be a lot more active than the new users’. A week later‚ after the new users were told to use the internet at least an hour a day‚ their brains seemed to have changed and rewired to match that of the experts. This shows that the brain can
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structures has been the subject of keen contention‚ and affords rich research from which to discuss whether particular regions of the brain have an innately pre-specified role to support particular cognitive functions. Research related to the prefrontal cortex will also be considered‚ drawing the essay to its conclusion. To explore cognitive development in terms of the specialisation of function in specific cortical structures‚ one must outline association between structural differentiation and functional
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