Cingulate cortex

Task One Explain the functions of the following The Temporal Lobe The temporal lobe is placed in the base of the cortex behind the temples. It is one of the four exceeding lobes in the cerebral cortex. The temporal lobe develops sensory information. It controls select listening and the data collected from the ears. Sound and speech is also created here. The temporal lobe conceives significant speech, including sounds and pitches. Long term and visual memories are stored here. The temporal…

psychopathology.” De Bellis, (2013). MRI scans of adolescents who have experienced physical and or sexual abuse show reduced cortical thickness and reduced gray matter volume in subcortical regions. Specific regions affected include the prefrontal cortex, parahippocampal gyrus, and the temporal…

Voyeurism in The Mind of a Potential Serial Killer Ted Bundy, probably one of the most famous of serial killers, can be accredited with the reasoning for this research. Bundy is on record, saying, “…I’ve lived in prison for a long time now, and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence… without exception, every one of them was deeply involved with pornography; without question, without exception, deeply influenced and consumed by an addiction to pornography.” Voyeurism and…

important information, calculating the best action, and presenting it to you. The hang-ups primarily come when we are forced to question ourselves (Gladwell, 2005). Thin-slicing is built off of previously observed patterns, but life doesn’t always prescribe to our preconceived ideas of how a situation should play out. This creates what’s known as the Warren-Harding Error. The Warren-Harding Error is named after the president, who “most historians agree, [was] one of the worst presidents in…

Early brain imaging studies of musical imagery used PET (positron emission tomogra- phy), which has now been almost completely replaced by fMRI. PET and fMRI each have their pros and cons as methods for functional brain imaging. PET works by com- bining several tricks. Typically, subjects are injected with 2-deoxyglucose, a modified form of sugar that is transported through the bloodstream to cells just like glucose, but cannot be metabolized. As a result, 2-deoxyglucose builds up rapidly in…

During the evaluation of four articles that focus on self-regulation, anxiety, and fear effecting consciousness and moral responsibility, the different author’s present their arguments and views on how these emotional capacities and the ability to obtain self-regulation affect the decision making of an agent and whether or not they should be held fully morally responsible for their actions and decisions. In this paper, I will be explicating three different views on the capacities of…

tract correlates to the ability to recover motor function. If the pathway from the primary motor cortex to the motor neurons in the spinal cord is disrupted, secondary motor areas of the brain will be recruited. Secondary motor areas are less numerous and less excitatory; therefore, they will contribute to motor recovery, but will not provide exact substitutions for projections from the primary motor cortex. Finally, strategies to promote adaptive responses can influence recovery of motor…

Every day patients rush into the emergency room due to various medical reasons. Some may have just experienced a severe car accident while others may be facing a battle with cancer. Whatever the case may be, if the patient is a competent adult, then he or she is legally and ethically empowered to make health care decisions for themselves. However, this is not the circumstance for adolescents, who range from ages 10 to 19.¬1 Since most people base their decisions on values, personal experiences,…

grasping, writing, lifting, and gesturing. Copious studies suggest that the posterior parietal cortex is of paramount importance when executing hand actions and motions. Comparatively, past experiments exhibit bilateral posterior parietal cortex activation during one-handed movements with notable increases in the activity of the hemisphere contralateral to the active hand. Because posterior parietal cortex activity levels indicate relationships to hand choice, there are postulations…

individuals develop a propensity to become antisocial. This evident where in the article where Bechara & Damasio (2002) stated, “Therefore, our findings suggest that the defective neural mechanism of decision-making associated with a malfunctioning VM cortex is one phenotype of the personality traits of ASPD.” As a substance dependent individual finds themselves tethered to their addiction…