There are four lobes of the brain. You have the frontal lobe‚ parietal lobe‚ temporal lobe‚ and the occipital lobe. The frontal lobe is of course located in the front of the brain and performs reasoning‚ expressive language‚ motor skills‚ and high level cognition. This part of the brain gets information from different lobes throughout the brain to carry body movements. The parental lobe is the middle section of the brain‚ it processes tactile sensory information like touch‚ pain‚ and pressure
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Brain Function Table Component Definition Role in Learning and Development Neurons A neuron is a cell in the brain or another part of the nervous system that transmits information to other cells. Neuron cells are the information processing components of the brain responsible for receiving and transmitting information. Each part of the neuron plays a role in the communication of information throughout the body. Neurotransmitters A neurotransmitter is a chemical substance through which
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Cocaine addiction affects an entire family because a person’s drug abuse can have a deep impact on the lives of the people close to them.
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INTRODUCTION Traumatic Brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability among the youth in Australia and other countries. The most common cause of moderate and severe head injury among the young adults is road traffic crashes with falls and assaults being the next most common cause (Elliot‚ Aitken & Chaboyer‚ 2012). Descriptive analysis of the data from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2006 from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Morbidity Database found that males had
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Kaplan University CM220: College Composition September 5‚ 2012 Traumatic Brain Injury is an injury that affects an estimated 1.7 million people per year in the United States. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits a solid object‚ or an object pierces through the skull and enters the brain tissue. There are two main types of TBI a closed head injury (CHI)
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methods of the brain. It ranges from electrical and chemical stimulation‚ recordings of the electrical activity from the brain‚ scanning and imaging techniques‚ and so on. The effects of electrical and chemical stimulation take place within different places in the brain that selectively affect specific psychological processes as well as psychologically active medications; anesthetics and recreational drugs). These selectively affect different mental processes because they act on the brain in different
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In “Bugs in the Brain”‚ Robert Sapolsky makes the claim that more research is needed in order to gain a greater understanding of how the brain works and more importantly‚ to gain a greater understanding of how certain microorganisms change animals’ behaviors for their own benefits‚ such as reproduction and/or spreading to new hosts. He supports this claim mostly through the use of examples of these types of microorganisms. For example‚ he mentions mites that belong to the genus Anthennophorus‚ which
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This article is about “should addiction to drugs be a labeled a brain disease?” The author starts out talking about the different theories as to why some individuals become addicted to alcohol or other drugs. Historically‚ drug and alcohol dependency has been viewed as either a disease or a moral failing. The view that this addiction to drugs and alcohol are righteous failings maintains that such abusing of drugs is voluntary of what the person wants to do. People choose to immoderate in such ways
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What I learned in this unit is that the brain is made up of several special parts‚ each of them work in different parts. The brain has many jobs. It controls our spinal cord‚ our central nervous system and our nervous system. The spinal cord carries messages to the brain and also to the nerve cells that carry messages from the brain. Your body senses everything. Like something smashing your toe. You react to it. It all sends itself to the brain and it reacts. The cerebrum‚ controls thinking
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Distinctiveness between the right and left hemisphere of the brain Word Count: 995 Abstract The brain assymetry experiment is to investigate on the distinctiveness of the right and left hemisphere in the brain as each hemisphere has certain specializations. The experiment were carried out by initially asking the 25 participant on whether they were left or right handed and they had to choose the chimeric image which appeared younger to them. Laterality quotients were calculated in order to
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