Brain

one that your brain has temporarily constructed purely for convenience.(Ramachandran) The brain. A three pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of never ending space. This book gives an interesting look at how the brain works and the beliefs of people who had damage to their brains, or who had their brains remapped due to amputations. Ramachandran is a professor at the University of California. The book “Phantoms in the Brain” gives us…

When it comes to discussing biology in psychology there's a different aspect as how to go about viewing it. The brain operates in many different ways and controls your body. The natural approach trusts us to be as a result of our hereditary qualities and physiology. It is the main approach in brain science that looks at musings, sentiments, and practices from an organic and in this way physical perspective. All considerations, feeling and conduct at last have a natural reason. The investigation…

In recent years the idea of brain training has become quite popular; a quick Google search warrants almost 10 million results. Brain training is the concept that individuals can exercise their brains to improve aspects such as cognition, memory, and reflex. In a similar fashion to how quick this gained popularity, people began to question its legitimacy. After reviewing the available research, it is safe to say that brain training has a positive impact on older adults and their cognition. In…

advice with a deeper understanding of language and its manifestation in our brains. Introduction: Language in the Brain The understanding of language has progressed mainly from studying abnormal conditions, most importantly post-mortem analysis of patients with language disorders after brain damage (Geschwind, 1972). A disturbance of language resulting from brain damage is known as aphasia. The loss of speech from brain damage had been described before the 19th century, but it was not until…

Brain plasticity is the ability for one hemisphere of the brain to change and adapt to the removal of the other hemisphere. In many cases a hemispherectomy occurs in children with various illnesses. Drug-resistance seizures, these seizures cannot be calmed by medications or other treatments. This is an illness that uses hemispherectomies as a solution to treat the illness. Hemispherectomies impact the formation of cognitive processes in the brain as discussed in de Bode, Chanturidze, Mathern, &…

The human brain is designed in a way that it is able to coordinate two actions and achieve the set goals of the actions simultaneously. This particular ability enables the brain to multitask two activities, both which require attention. It is able to do so without confusing either of these activities. The brain is able to switch in between these two activities without compromising its behavior. Research have been conducted to find out which part of the brain is responsible for task switching.…

Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey, M.D. with Eric Hagerman” largely because of the topic discussed, and the way in which this particular book addressed this topic. The studies conducted in this book address the positive benefits of regular exercise, not just on the body in general, but for the mind and the heart as well. Most functions can benefit from routine exercise, and according to Dr. Ratey, there's extensive research, which can verify that the brain benefits from this…

3. Intelligence changes on a biological basis Biologically, intelligence is closely connected with brain development in children. A newborn baby has over a trillion nerve cells that communicate through even more synapses. At this point, children have more developed central nerve system (later CNS) than they need and synapses grow even more in the time to adolescence. The rate of synapse formation responsible for higher cognitive functions - one of them is intelligence reaches a peak at 3 years,…

functions emerge from infancy and develop swiftly during the preschool years. Dynamic brain changes within the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are consequently closely associated with the development. Throughout the essay, I am going to focus on the childhood development of cognitive flexibility, inhibition control, planning, and working memory among the broad range of executive functions, and discuss the implications of the brain changes, in regard to the lateral PFC…

until 1934, that scientists created an index for defecation scores in relation to emotions in rats (Taché et al., 2001). However, it has not been until recently, within the past two decades, that the topic of the gut microbiota communicating with the brain and various organs has emerged to the forefront of science (Tache et al, 2001; Mayer et al., 2014). Studies have shown that the gut and the central nervous system (CNS) are closely linked and play a role in maintaining homeostasis (Cryan and…