Cerebrum

The body and mind undertake many activities. However, these activities are mostly controlled by the central nervous system (CNS). The brain and the spinal cord are the main components of the central nervous system. The brain is divided into three portions: the hindbrain which houses units of the brain that controls heart and sleeping patterns, the midbrain which links the forebrain to the hindbrain and also controls the heart rate and sweating, and the forebrain which controls our voluntary…

Antisocial personality Disorder (ASPD) is the most reliable personality disorder in terms of criteria. People with this disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others harshly or with callous indifference. They show no guilt or remorse for their behavior. (Mayo Clinic 2017). There are a very high rate of criminals diagnosed and undiagnosed in prisons. Substance abuse such as alcohol and drugs are used at a proportionally high rate among those with ASPD. Overall individuals with ASPD are…

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…

To begin, Greene’s study entitled “Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex” and the hypothesis claimed that the amygdala enables automatic emotional responses while the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is responsible for an all things considered response, also known as the rational response. This experiment operated in this manner, participants underwent a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan while responding to 48 “trolley”-type…

The article I read was about trying to find the similarities and differences in brain scans between neurological disorders and psychiatric disorders. The study used a type of imaging that looks at both the gray and white matter in the brain. This is known as meta-analysis on voxel-based morphometry. Throughout the study, they found that the gray matter was decreased in fourteen neurological disorders tested. The psychiatric disorders showed only 10 cases of decreased gray matter. In the…

While you read this essay many things are occurring in your brain. Overall it is important to note that the occipital cortex is continually working and is a huge part of this process. What is is doing is picking apart and analyzing the visual information you are coming across. Every character which you learned as child every word you learned in school is being processed in this area.The frontal lobe is also at work. It is what makes reading meaningful. You know what I mean by this sentence…

The hindbrain is located above the spinal cord and is also referred to as the rhombencephalon, it is like an extension to the spinal cord. The function of the hindbrain is primarily the coordination of motor reflexes, with the cerebellum carrying on much of this coordination (Raven et al. 2008). This part of the brain is made up of two parts the myelencephalon and the metencephalon. The medulla oblongata is located within the myelencephalon. The myelencephalon is a subdivision of the brain used…

research was done in the laboratory of Richard Andersen, James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center Leadership Chair, and director of the T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center. A paper describing the work appears in the April 10 issue of the journal eLife. The somatosensory cortex is a strip of brain that governs bodily sensations, both proprioceptive sensations (sensations of movement or the body's position in space) and cutaneous sensations (those of…

For this study, analysts David Dunson, from Duke University, and Daniele Durante, from the University of Padova, investigated the system of white nervous tissue associations amidst 68 different brain regions in vigorous college- aged volunteers. The cerebrum's white tissue resides underneath the external grey tissue. It’s made out of wads of either wires or axons which associate billions of neurons and convey electrical indications between them. A group drove by neuroscientist Rex Jung, from the…

The frontal eye field, also referred to as FEF, is a region of the brain located in the prefrontal cortex. The FEF is responsible for preparing and controlling eye movements through different pathways as well as visual perception and awareness. The electrical stimulations occurring in this area is able to trigger eye movements. It was first discovered by scientist Dave Ferrier in the 1870’s when he found that electric stimulation of this part of the brain produced movement in the eyes and head…