Cerebral hemisphere

The Teen Brain: Risk Taking The teen years are some of the hardest years in the span of a lifetime. Especially when certain brain functions cannot work because of daily struggles. However, the teen brain does exactly what it is wired to do. The teen brain is wired to take risk, make bad decisions, and be overly emotional. Anatomy The reason behind teens taking risk is the anatomy of the brain. Many of the important parts of this organ are not fully developed until the mid 20’s. The corpus…

Many people have a memorable event that shapes their lives; unfortunately, I was in a coma for mine. In February 2012 -- mid-way through my freshman year -- I suffered a brain aneurysm. There were no big warning signs, no red flags...just a nagging headache two days before. I went to sleep one night, and woke up two days later in a hospital room, surrounded by a dozen strange people, with a breathing tube down my throat...and everyone telling me to RELAX. Are you kidding me?! The good news is…

How much of our life do we really have control over? This topic is covered in The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain which contemplates just how much humans are actually aware of and how much we genuinely decide. The video goes into an in-depth analysis of the automatic brain. It shows just how complicated the many processes the human brain goes through each day, in fact at every second. Humans are immensely unaware of how powerful and controlling the automatic brain is. This part of our…

INTRODUCTION A psychopath individual is known to act very impulsively, with disregard for others emotions, and against common social norms.5 Psychopathy is a mental health disorder that causes patients to exhibit lack of compassion and concern for others.2 Although there is a lot of information available to the public about how a psychopath acts, there is not much research done on why certain individuals exhibit psychopathic behaviors. Psychopaths exhibit certain characteristics and the…

Multiple sources of evidence have shown that pain perception (which is the conscious awareness of pain by the brain) is not entirely dependent on physical injury (physical injury is defined as damage to the body). This essay will consider information relating to phantom pain, battlefield injuries and referred pain as well as discussing the gate pain theory put forward by Melzack and wells. The human body has two separate pain pathways, one of which is involved in pain perception while the other…

Parkinson’s disease is a hazardous disease and one of the most common diseases in US, about one million people live with it. It is a progressive movement disorder which means that the symptoms may get worse over time. Till now the cause is not identified or known .There is no cure but there are treatments to reduce the symptoms by medications and surgery. WHAT IS PARKINSON’S DISEASE? It is a brain disorder affecting brain cells in the brain. Parkinson’s affects neurons in an…

Cerebral Palsy is a neurological disorder, caused by brain damage, which affects body movement and muscle coordination. “The brain damage is caused by brain injury or abnormal development of the brain that occurs while a child’s brain is still developing — before birth, during birth, or immediately after birth” (MyChild, 2016). No two cases of cerebral palsy are alike. Cerebral palsy is life altering and those diagnosed with this chronic disease have to learn to adapt in every different aspect…

The Central Nervous System is the most important organ system in the human body because it is how we control our body. It consists of the spinal cord, nerve cells, and parts of the brain (Organ System Skit). “The nervous system takes in information through our senses, processes the information and triggers reactions, such as making your muscles move or causing you to feel pain” (How Does the Nervous System Work? NCBI). In addition, when the body wants to move, the brain sends a message to the…

Evidence that Neurological Mirroring Extends to Humans: While the findings on specific mirror neuron system functioning is remarkable, it must be noted that the initial breakthrough single cell recording studies were not done with human participants, but with monkeys. Therefore, the systems and the presence of mirror neurons in humans can be deduced but not directly tested due to the ethical concerns of the single mirror neuron recording methods. As a result, skeptics have emerged with…

One of the many diseases caused by faulty cell-to-cell communication is Alzheimer’s disease. This disease causes many cells in the brain to die. Therefore, as more and more of the cells die, it causes the brain to shrink. What causes the brain cells to die, which then causes the brain to contract, is the unusual twist of the protein called tau. Tau is a protein in the brain that delivers nutrients and other important elements to the brain cells. The effect of the twisted protein inhibits the…