Brain Essay

ABSTRACT: This research paper summarizes the effect of alcohol on adolescent brain development. Researchers have discovered striking changes that take place in the teen years. These findings have altered the long held assumptions about the timing of brain maturation. For instance, they discovered that the brain doesn’t look like an adult’s brain until the early 20s. However, those brain changes don’t occur properly due to alcohol abuse in adolescents. Adults drink more frequently than teenagers,…

about brain damage and how it repairs itself. This is interesting to me because I work in a nursing home and often see people who have brain deterioration and damage. My first question is why can’t dementia be reversed? With all of the implants and technology we have, why can’t we help somebody with dementia? Well the reason is, because there are many different types of dementia that can occur in different regions of your brain that is all caused by damage to your brain. The cells in your brain…

What is the Mind-Brain Problem? Is the mind a part of the brain or an independent entity? This question has been an issue of disagreement for scientists and philosophers for several decades. Three separate groups including dualism, materialism (monism), and functionalism, each offer a unique position to the mind-brain problem (Brysbaert & Rastle, 2009). Each group attempts to determine what constitutes the self and makes each person their own individual with feelings, beliefs, and private…

“Never one person or groups of people exclusively used more of their left side of the brain or more of the right side” was concluded by Dr. Gayatri Devi, the professor of neurology at New York (“Left brain right brain theory”). This is a reference to the myth that people think they are more dominant on their left side of their brain and vice versa. The split-brain theory, better known as the left-brain, right-brain theory, is a theory that distinguishes people as “left brained” or “right…

and Their Effect on Brain Function In the article, “Jumper Cables for The Mind”, Dan Hurley describes his experience with tDCS (transcranial direct-current stimulation) and if its process changes brain activity to cause quick reaction time, better memory, improved mental health, and even the ability to solve equations. This stimulation process involves the attachment of wires, (similar to what is used in an EEG), to the head on certain areas for specific targets of the brain. It is a short…

Intelligence and the brain are two concepts interconnected. This connection is related to the fact that intelligence is expressed by the actions carried out by the brain. So, the brain activity produces every expression of intelligence. As the activity of the brain is so crucial for the expression of intelligence, it’s important to mention two facts. First, the actions performed by the brain in a particular situation rely on the history and the structure of the brain. In elation with this first…

vasculature, and for years, the theory of the nonexistence of the lymphatic system in the brain has been accepted as a biological/anatomical fact. This very basic fact of neuro-anatomy has recently been upset by two independent studies, revealing that the brain does, in fact, have a functional lymphatic system. Although this study was originally done on mice brains, there have been similar findings in human cadaver brains. We know that the lymphatic system provides the body with a waste disposal…

The first couple of years is the most important and crucial time in children’s lives. The first five years is when children learn the most; by age three a child’s development reaches eighty percent. As James and Nelson express “brain development is a complex set of processes that begin within a few weeks of contraception and continue until adulthood” (as cited in Holden, 2014, p. 189). Without healthy growth, a child can have many learning, behavior problems even mental and health problems. It…

beneficial and helpful to society. It is important for the medical community to continue their studies on how the body and brain interact with each other, by doing so more and more patients will keep reaping the benefits. It is amazing how the brain learns certain behaviors and an individual can have a sensation of having a limb that is not physically present. Deceiving the brain and unlearning the learned pain and behavior is remarkable and it can help so many people, not just those who have…

In this episode of Brain Games, I learned of the tricks and illusions your brain will play on you. In Game #1, a basketball is rolling but the shadow of the basketball makes my brain think it is bouncing and jumping up and down. Our brain is trying to rationalize the bouncing and jumping of the ball. Our brains are so used to only one light source that we do not question the perception of shadows. Not only can shadows lie to you, but colors can also lie to you. Game #2 depicts a box with…