Human Brain Essay

Chief Complaint "TIA". History Patient is a 74-year-old right-handed white female who has had three stereotypical events one on 2012, and two this July. She describes it as "my brain goes into a cramp and I can not speak". She states that she knows what she wants to say, but can not find the words or pronounce the words properly. She calls it jumbled speech. Her first event, again was in 2012 and it lasted less than a minute. She had a second event on July 3rd, when she was on the phone…

TN Ready Essay Danny Heitman stated that “If Thoreau were to move to Walden Today, Would he bring the internet? Maybe”, but honestly he might not be able to bring the internet he used in his day and time, and use it now. Books, and Journals are the past in this day and time. Internet is our most valuable resource to search, and find things about. Internet was not around back in the 1840’s. All the people had back then were book’s, and people to get evidence from. Danny Heitman’s claim that…

of my inquiry question, which is, what is the impact of playing an instrument on a person? This is a question that I thought about for a while, playing an instrument involves many different skills and parts of the brain. It made me question if playing an instrument improves our brain capacity and makes us able…

If kids are full they will be more prepared to buckle down and get on to the learning. What if the foods that could be benefiting the children today, that could be making the kids brains more susceptible to the information being taught are simple everyday foods we seem to just overlook, these foods being ones that could easily be grown in your local greenhouse with a little help from an agriculture teacher, or even be found in local…

When I was a little, my mother made sure I was involved in sports. Although I’m a girl, she wanted me to focus only on sports, rather than learn how to walk in heals, which I still struggle with today. Tennis was the first sport I joined at the age of five, but that was not enough. As I began training for tennis tournaments, my coach decided that I need to join track in order to increase my speed on the court. For my mother that was a marvelous idea, but for me it was not as marvelous. The first…

allowed neurobiologists to show what differentiates the depressed brain from the non-depressed brain (Marano, 1999, p. 30). Prior to these techniques, many…

long-term memory, tends to be larger in the female brain. The larger hippocampus may provide females with increased memory storage and the ability to access more information for recall. Female brains may also mature earlier than male brains, as the last step in male brain growth occurs around age 30 (Gurian & Stevens, 2010). “Boys tend to process emotive information from the limbic system to the brain stem; girls tend to process more of it in the upper brain, where complex thought occurs”…

conducted their experiment by having them perform a facial-emotion matching task and a shape-matching task before an fMRI scan. A functional MRI machine measures blood flow to specific regions of the brain, and was used because a PET scan cannot be used with children under eighteen years of age. The facial-emotion matching task involved “a target face located at the top of the screen and 2 probe faces located at the bottom of the screen…participants…

Education has the capability of empowering children to revolutionise society and as professionals, teachers have a duty of ensuring their pedagogy facilitates opportunities for each individual to prosper. Schools have a moral duty to be safe, democratic and inclusive environments that celebrate and utilise diversity. I support Dewey’s theory relating to pragmatism and his belief that education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself (Dewey, 1897). The extent to which education…

And, another way to help children develop strong, secure emotional skills is teaching them all about how the brain functions. Siegel and Bryson (2011) use an approach called “whole-brain kids: Teach your kids about the two sides of the brain, the left-brain correlates with a person’s feelings and the right side of the brain correlates with words which together they equal the “whole brain” (Siegel & Bryson, 2011,…