Corpus callosum

unable to effectively regulate cortisol, a stress hormone. Unregulated cortisol levels may be causing the child’s temper tantrums. Traumatic stress can also reduce the size of the child’s corpus callosum. The reduction in size of the corpus callosum may have caused the child to fall behind academically. Corpus callosum is also responsible for learning and memory. The Amygdala area of the brain could have been negatively impacted by the trauma of the abuse resulting in the child…

on their instrument. The neuroscientists found that musicians, while playing music, engage almost every part of the brain and the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is in charge of transferring motor, sensory, and cognitive information throughout the brain. It is the messenger as well as the bridge between the two hemispheres.Therefore, by engaging the corpus callosum with creating music, musicians are able to tag each memory with something visual, conceptual, and auditory, thus committing…

Overview Background Transient global amnesia (TGA) has been a well-described phenomenon for more than 40 years. Clinically, it manifests with a paroxysmal, transient loss of memory function. Immediate recall ability is preserved, as is remote memory; however, patients experience striking loss of memory for recent events and an impaired ability to retain new information. In some cases, the degree of retrograde memory loss is mild. Many patients are anxious or agitated and may repeatedly ask…

My Hemispheres and Me Our brain’s two hemispheres look alike, but they have different function. This specialization of the right and left hemisphere is called lateralization. In the past scientists learned about this functional specialization of our brain by observing people with brain damage or injury and examining they brains after death. Today scientist have other methods. They can monitor brain waves, blood flow, or glucose consumption in the brain to find out which part of the brain is…

also sometimes also referred to as cerebral dominance, hemisphericity, or lateralization. The right brain-left brain theory originated in the work of Roger W. Sperry (1960), who while studying the effects of epilepsy, discovered that cutting the corpus callosum (the structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain) could reduce or eliminate seizures. The connection between the brain and thought was made post-mortally. The functions of the brain as clearly understood only on the basis of…

What is Consciousness? “It is not necessary for someone to tell me that I am alive because I know that I am alive, I know what is happening around me. I can hear the chirping sounds out of my window. I know there are birds out there. I can smell the ghee in the pongal that my mom is making. I can hear the cycle bell sound and I know its 8.30 am and my friend is waiting for me outside for school .I can sense the fear in me that I didn’t complete my homework. I will be a dead person when my…

In the article read Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga conducted studies of the human brain and its two separate hemispheres. Patients with severe epilepsy had undergone procedures that severed the two hemispheres of the brain at the corpus callosum. After surgeons separated the two hemispheres, Sperry and Gazzaniga began testing the hemispheres. Sperry and Gazzaniga wanted to further examine how the two halves worked separately, thus exploring visual, tactile, and both visual and tactile. To…

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system for most living things. There are only a few animals that do not have a brain like starfish or jellyfish. The brain is located in the head. It receives messages from other organs. The brain is the most complex organ. In a human, the cerebral cortex has more than a billion neurons. Each of these neurons are connected by synapses. These synapses are connected to several thousand other neurons. Neurons communicate with one…

Everyone has had a moment where they realized that they have a certain skill, ability, or quality about themselves that they gained from something they might not have expected. They might have gained this from a class, or a club, or activity they did in the past. Music is something that many people have taken skills from and used to become successful. Some of these people are famous and can credit great amounts of their success to their musical background. Sometimes people use skills for one…

Question #1. The brain has two hemisphere, the right and left side. Each hemisphere has it own function working different ways, but are connected by the corpus callosum to serve the body. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body. The left side is more of the academic side and logical side. The left side is better at understanding language. Language as in being able to communicate with others (speaking). Also comprehending and reading. Left side is better at musical tempo like…