Cerebral hemisphere

All brains are different, meaning that all brains contain different information and memories, but most of the time, brains process information very similarly. There are many scientific tests that scientists and doctors perform to study and learn about the different ways the brain processes certain information. Cognitive functions are intellectual processes that include reasoning, attention and processing information (Stoet). A test known as The Stroop Effect Task tests cognitive functioning.…

Rebecca Thomas and her husband are expecting and they are very overjoyed. As new parents they are afraid of having a miscarriage. After Rebecca past her 12th week mark of when miscarriages can occur they felt a relief. During her eighth week ultrasound her baby wasn’t fully developed so he resembled a sea creature alien look alike. During her pregnancy she felt him move and heard his heart beat just as if he was a normal baby like everyone else’s. As days went by they started to plan and get…

mortified! It was shocking and confusing! So, I began to re-do the buttons on my blouse, only to have them undone again by my alien hand! There was something wrong” (Alien Hand Syndrome…oh, it’s real, 2011). The doctor informed Kara that the right hemisphere of her brain controls her left hand and is also largely in control for spatial cognition, identifying patterns of movement and consequently, since the severance of the two hemisphere’s, Kara’s right side of the brain refused to be dominated…

a fetal MRI performed where it confirmed “Dandy Walker malformation of the basis of an absent vermis, cystic dilatation of the fourth ventricle and enlarged posterior fossa, upward displacement of the torcula and splayed hypoplastic cerebellar hemispheres.” The second case was a 30 year old women who was 39 weeks pregnant. She had a US history of decreased fetal movement. US demonstrated possible occipital encephaocoele. A MRI confirmed encephualocoele. The third case was a 31 year old who was…

symptoms when the meningiomas become large. Larger tumors compress brain tissue and nerves that are associated with the brain and spinal cord, and reactive swelling in brain tissue around the tumor causes symptoms in the patient. The blocking of cerebral spinal fluid causes an accumulation resulting in obstructive hydrocephalus, and blocking of blood flow occurs when veins or arteries are…

We discussed breaking bad news to parents in our feedback session where we talked about how important it is for doctors to be able to break bad news, and that it is a vital skill to have. In my opinion, the conversation with the parents will be to say that there is little hope for survival and no hope for survival without serious handicap in this child as I’ve highlighted above, and that the resuscitation should be abandoned. The process of therapeutic hypothermia involves the baby being cooled…

The choroidal arteries are deep cerebral arteries that supply deep structures in the brain. The anterior choroidal artery is a branch of the internal carotid and it supplies the choroid plexus in the lateral ventricles, parts of the visual pathway, the putamen, the thalamus, and the hippocampus. The posterior choroidal artery is a branch of the posterior cerebral artery. It supplies blood to the choroid plexus of the third ventricle and parts of the thalamus and hippocampus. An occlusion of…

to be polite. Scientists discovered that the two types of smiling, social and Duchenne, use two totally different parts of our brain. The Duchenne smile works from the left hemisphere for our brain and scientists do not know where the social smile works in the brain. It is somewhere different that is not on the left hemisphere or the human brain. According to…

bones that lie above them. On the other hand, the cerebellum of the brain is a structure located in the metencephalon and part of the overall brain’s hindbrain which is nicknamed the, ““little brain”, is similar to the cerebrum in that it has two hemispheres and has a highly folded surface or cortex. This structure is associated with regulation and coordination of movement, posture, and balance [to probably higher cognitive functions in humans]” (Patricia, 2012, para. 5). It is even concerned…

Experiments allow researchers to intervene and change behavior. Experiments also allow researchers to examine more than two variables at a time. Correlation studies, on the other hand, allow researchers to observe patterns that are not manipulated as they are in experiments. Correlations studies also only allow two variables to be observed at one time so that “the direction and strength for the association between the two variables” (Noba, 2014, p. 37) can be determined. As stated above,…