Anterior cingulate cortex

In the attempts to quantify the relationship between brain mass and function, Lashley removed large areas of the cerebral cortex in rats and pigeons, and found that they could still perform specific tasks. It must be said that media play their part in spreading and keeping the myth alive. In reality, humans use one hundred percent of their brain. From the perspective of neuroscience…

INTRODUCTION The human brain has a remarkable ability to manage the body functions, and process the information that allows us to act on a changeable external environment. To achieve these functions, during evolution, it developed a large computing power, and specialized functions, such as cognition, emotion and consciousness. With approximately 86 billion neurons (Herculano-Houzel, 2009), each neuron has approximately hundreds up to thousands of synapses, it has high structural complexity, and…

Picture a sponge. A common household item that is very simple yet useful. Now compare that sponge to the human brain. It’s porousness allows outside substances to seep in and be collected. The sponge grows and holds more than expected of it. Much like the sponge, our brain can absorb and retain valuable resources. Without the brain, humans would not be able to function. The brain, a highly complex part of the human anatomy, is in charge of one’s intelligence, the senses, producer of all body…

Matter (WM) and Gray Matter (GM) to the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC). When the authors were talking about WM and GM it was stated that throughout adolescence that in the temporal and parietal cortexes that WM increases and GM decreases (Choudhury 143). Then they went into how from what researchers have noticed that the adolescent brain matures from back to front, having the sensory and motor maturing first and…

experiencing she was hospitalized and after five years of been hospitalized she died. Alois Alzheimer did the autopsy to this woman and he found the three characteristics of alzheimer disease. He noticed a shrink in her brain particular in the cerebral cortex, plaques were outside the neural cells and also there was tangle…

under the occipital bone. Damage to the occipital lobe can result in some major medical problems. Occipital lesions can cause visual hallucinations, vision cuts in each eye, and in more serious cases can lead to blindness due to holes in the visual cortex caused by lesions. Like the parietal and frontal lobes, the temporal lobe is responsible for many functions as well. The temporal lobe is associated with perception and Burton 3 recognition of auditory, memory, and speech stimuli. Visual…

In the book The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks, the author describes odd psychological phenomenons in which he’s had personal experience with. Sacks describes multiple patients with lack, in the first part of his book, and patients with abundances, in the second part of the book, and transfer, in the third part of his book, of physiological features or abilities. The first of the studies in this book that were found the most interesting is the inspiration of the title. Dr. P…

She thinks this is one of the most important distinctions between adolescents and adults. Luna (2007) She says: “Teenagers use more of their prefrontal cortex resources than adults did.” (P.56) Prefrontal cortex is not only responsible for underlies planning but also voluntary behavior. Luna says there are two kinds of self-control behavior. The exogenous and endogenous. Exogenous control is reflexive, and it is generated by external…

drink heavily. The changes of the brain were detected when researchers studied brain scans of children as they grew from early childhood through age 20.The scans revealed unexpectedly changes in the volume of gray matter, which forms the cortex of the brain. The cortex is where the processes of thought and memory are based.…

The human brain is undoubtedly the most complex organ in the human body. This three-pound mass of jelly-like, dark and gray tissue controls all human activity. From walking to driving a car to breathing, the brain is the center of all the action in our everyday lives. The brain maintains your body’s basic functions, enables you to understand and react to your experiences and forms your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behavior. It consists of many parts that all collaborate as a team with one…