Dennis Brain

She was frightened by the routine sound of a buzz and bright white lights. The beaming lights forced her tired eyes open. Swinging her heavy legs over and placing her feet on the cold ground, she heard the voice of a guard. “Alright, get up! Wake up!” His voice sounded more piercing than usual. As she stood frozen next to her little bed, the guard confidently entered her cell approaching slowly, standing face to face in silence, he inched closer. She didn’t move. She studied his badly shaven…

1. Description of the chosen disability. Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term that refers to a range of disabilities that cause permanent damage to the brain (Better health channel, 2016). As a result of this children’s movement and muscle control are affected (cerebral palsy alliance, 2016). Cerebral palsy effects children in many ways, some children it effects their ability to move, balance, communicate as well as effecting the way they eat, sleep, learn and play (cerebral palsy alliance, 2016)…

Mental imagery can be performed using one of two basic perspectives, namely internal or external. The internal perspective involves imaging from within the body and experiencing the motor act without overt movement, i.e., the subject imagines that he or she is really performing the motor act, that his or her muscles are contracting, and that he or she feels kinesthetic sensations. The external perspective, on the other hand, involves imagining the action as if it is outside the body, i.e., the…

Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was the author and wrote his own biography of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly on March 6, 1997, was full of life and worked as the editor for the French Elle Magazine had a Massive Stroke in his early forties while enjoying life with his two beautiful children. Jean Massive stroke took over his brainstem and he was in a coma for 20 days. Jean was a person who was very outgoing and active, sadly, his massive stroke turned into a locked-in syndrome and was paralyzed…

Brief overview of Cerebral Palsy and how it can be classified Cerebral Palsy or CP, is a neurological disability that affects movement, coordination and posture. ‘Cerebral’ refers to the brain and ‘palsy’ refers to a lack of muscle control. CP is a permanent life-long condition caused by damage to the developing brain either during pregnancy, shortly after birth or during a child’s first year of life. CP can affect people in very different ways including their movement, muscle control, muscle…

* spielmeyer Fogt Hergan * * Batten Disease is a degenerative neurological condition that affect people of all ages, particularly between mid childhood and their early twenties. 
 * The most common form of Battens is Juvenile Battens affecting children between 5-25 years. 
 * It was discovered in 1903 Frederick Batten, a British Paediatrician. [22] 
 * Detected when symptoms such as loss of vision and balance, seizures, minor behavioural changes occur. These are often diagnosed as epilepsy or…

At a glance, hypnosis is a fun way to see your friends do ridiculous things that they’d never do in their right mind. But there’s much more to hypnosis than making chicken noises and dancing in front of a crowd of people. By definition, hypnosis “is a trance-like state in which you have heightened focus and concentration” (Mayo). Hypnosis has been proven to be helpful in coping with anxiety or pain that one is experiencing. In this process called hypnotherapy, also known as medical hypnosis, a…

Love is a neurological state created by the brain not just an emotion. The part of the brain that love is centered works like it would if someone was on drugs. One could still consider love as an emotion. Every feeling that can be felt by someone like anger, happiness etc. are felt when someone tells themselves that they love or are in love with someone. All of which triggers a part of the brain. People describe love in many different ways. “Philosophers and poets have pondered the nature of…

that the body is divisible, while the mind is not. This notion can work in terms of physical objects and even one’s own body. But what if one’s brain were to be damaged. There is a multitude of neurological evidence which supports how the brain is the center in which Descartes calls the “mind.” Things like biological reactions and electrical signals in the brain when a person feels emotion or pain, etc. Building on to this idea, Descartes believes that the mind is not divisible, however, there…

neuroscience they mention that there is two types of plasticity during our lifetime, critical period plasticity being the first during our postnatal development, then comes plasticity. Critical period plasticity is a particular time frame in which the brain development is sensitive to a certain experience such as vision, and once the critical period ends there is no more plasticity occurring (Kolb and Whishaw, 270). On the contrary plasticity is also important for us because it can fix and…