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In Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion, Blood and Zatorre used positron emission tomography to study the neural mechanisms. Results involved changes in heart rate, electromyogram, and respiration. Increase and decrease were detected in the brain regions involving in reward, motivation, emotion, and arousal. Similarly Alluri and colleagues in From Vivaldi to Beatles and back, predicts the brain activity in music…

ALS and CTEs are starting to become an awareness in today's world with the help of challenges like ice bucket challenge, and as we notice well known athletes are being diagnosed with these diseases. There are different types of CTEs that affect your brain in different ways but can show similar symptoms also, and ALS is a heart breaking disease to have. Understanding what each brain harming disease is a way of help raising awareness of the diseases. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as…

Have you ever wondered why we see illusions in different ways or why we say a word instead of a color? The Stroop Effect shows that something is going on in our brain. But what does it tell us about our brain’s ability to process colors, words, and illusions? Is it something that happened during development or is there something that happens in our brain when we look at illusions? The Stroop Effect is named after John R. Stroop, who discovered this phenomenon in 1935. The Stroop Effect states…

The nostalgia tied with madness is used to make sense of not the past, but the individual, which then creates the past as a tool for sanity, therefore it does not perceive to be gone or dead. Nostalgia works as a distortion and distraction. Andrew is using his authoritative knowledge of cognitive science as magical realism. For the majority of the book, he is stuck in his head and the logical world perceives to be a fantasy. Andrew uses science as the only method to wrap his head around his past…

Motor function and motor control begin in the motor cortex of the brain. The primary motor cortex is associated with generation of a motor program. Premotor areas are involved in complicated motor functions, such as required changes in output forces or velocities, or motor response to visual or auditory input. Also, the basal ganglia and thalamus are important coordinating centers for goal­directed motor programs and patterns. The cerebellum allows for unimpeded movements of those motor programs…

The word «plastic» has a Greek origin (πλαστικός) meaning something that is capable of being shaped and/or molten. Similarly, due to its vast neuronal circuitry the human brain can be shaped by the environment and cognitive experience[38]. Brain plasticity (or neuroplasticity) describes lasting change to the brain throughout an animal's life course. For example, as it is described in the previous section, during fetal development the brain changes continuously, considering maturation of the…

This article focuses on phantom pains. People with amputated limbs wonder if they are actually feeling something touch them or if it is just a figment of their imagination. In this article researchers gave their opinions on why this happens and they explained why it is possible. It talks about the primary somatosensory cortex, primary visual cortex, and the motor cortex function before and after the limb has been amputated. The researchers use an illusion called cutaneous rabbit illusion, which…

enjoy the beloved sport of golf with her friends and family, despite having cerebral palsy. Most people use “cerebral palsy” as a blanket term to describe a loss or impairment of motor function, however, it is crucial to understand cerebral palsy as brain damage resulting from brain injury or abnormal brain development that occurs during the crucial stages of infancy or early childhood development (Ultimate). The term “cerebral palsy” actually refers to any one of a number of neurological…

What is Cerebral Palsy • Cerebral Palsy is the impairment or lost of motor function of the body ()("Definition of Cerebral Palsy - What is CP? | CerebralPalsy.org"). The cause of cerebral palsy is brain damage. The brain damage is a result of irregular brain development of the brain before , during and after birth ("Definition of Cerebral Palsy - What is CP? | CerebralPalsy.org")). Cerebral Palsy can affect one's gross or fine motor skills and oral motor functioning("Definition of Cerebral…

Brainwaves and Cerebellum By: James Monds Have you ever wondered why the brain looks like it has folds? The brain is the most complex, and highest quality organ in the body. The brain has folds and has six brain waves: Beta, Gamma, Sensory, Theta, and Delta. The brain also encompasses the cerebellum, brainstem and four brain lobes: Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, and Occipital. The lobes and waves of the brain are an essential component of every human being. At the root of all thoughts, emotions,…