Cerebral hemorrhage

Cerebral Palsy and Cognition: How Cerebral Palsy Affects Education Cerebral palsy stems from an injury to the brain or abnormal development during the brain’s formation. “Experts believe that one to two of every 1,000 children born in the United States have cerebral palsy — a rate of occurrence that’s remained fairly stable for many years” according to (Gillette, para 11). People with cerebral palsy typically experience a combination of effects, partly because the direct results of their brain…

Living in Nashville, the music city, everybody’s life abounds with melodies. Although many people think music is an abstract art form that is devoid of clear-cut ideas, it never fails to touch us deeply, stimulating some universal nerves. When the prelude of our favorite song rings out, our whole bodies get prepared for that specific note. None of us would deny that music is biologically powerful. However, music’s precise influence on our brains and how we take advantage of its power deserve…

My reaction to the subject of identity helped me to fully understand it. After reading the text book todays lesson and my personal experiences I fully realize how important identity has been in my life. In the class activity and lecture, I was fully able to understand the concept of identity. I found that with the photo you asked us to pick out and the group conversation, I understood identity and how we develop identity. My photo was a picture of me and my sister at her high school graduation,…

The question of what consciousness is or what we can deem as to be conscious is most fiercely debated topic in this dissertation because its subjective nature; what you and I may consider to have its own consciousness may possibly or rather probably will be different, how then can we build a machine with its own conscience when we has humans still haven’t figured it what it even really means to be conscious. I think therefore I am This very famous statement written by French mathematician and…

The 1983 study by Zihl, Von Cramon and Mai investigates motion blindness, or akinetopsia. The patient suffering with this disorder had a very limited perception of visual motion, motion in depth, apparent motion and did not see motion after effects. Brain damage, specifically bilateral, posterior brain damage, can sometimes result in disturbed perception of color and, as in the case of L.M., motion. More specifically, the area that was damaged was assumed to be the posterior part of the middle…

The human brain is one of many features that make our species a unique species. It is responsible for language acquisition and logic and reasoning as well as many other cognitive functions that make us unique compared to other species. This is one of the reasons scientists aim to study the brain and its evolutionary history. Scientists believe a correlation exists between these functions and the brains large size in proportion to the rest of our bodies. Fossil evidence supports this theory.…

Part 3: Alzheimer’s Disease: A Doctors Secret Have you ever thought about how you will die, or what diseases you will get diagnosed with in you older age? Alzheimer’s disease is a “forgotten" thing in the younger generations, but its more present than we think. Many people 65 years and older have the disease without even knowing it until incidents like backing up out of the garage with the door still down, or falling asleep at the wheel, happen and they become utterly confused. So, is it…

How many times have you walked into a room and suddenly forgotten why you went in there in the first place? When this happens, do you joke that you’ve just had “a senior moment?” Most of us believe that cognitive decline is just a part of the aging process. In fact, until very recently, scientists believed that the brain stopped making new neural connections when the body stopped developing, at about age 20. This would mean that our memory and other cognitive functions would get irreversibly…

Human personality traits can be subdivided into two categories, the supertraits: extraversion and neuroticism. Every individual possesses them, which is why they are considered to be supertraits. Each trait has an opposite, for extroversion it is introversion, for neuroticism it is stable. Different quantities and combinations of these are responsible for different personalities experienced. Extroverts are impulsive and outgoing, they have a tendency to desire novelty and perform the…

die are present at birth, yet begin working approximately a decade before anything can be detected in the brain by certain scans or tests. This sort of disease is rapid and once a patient is diagnosed, it only gets worse from that point on. The cerebral cortex is responsible for thinking, planning, and remembering information. For Alzheimer’s patients, the cortex shrivels up causing the loss or gain of any information. The shrinkage of the Hippocampus is directly responsible for the inability…