Frontal lobe

short film. When he was shown the film , his brain lit up from activity . “Those might have been reflexive responses. But there seems to be more going on.” says Johnson . Owen says “ at all the critical twists and turns in the plot, Jeff’s frontal and parietal lobes responded exactly like those of a person who was conscious and aware.” Kate Bainbridge was shown pictures of her family while she was in the vegetative state, her brain responded as though a conscious patient would respond.…

The Juveniles justice system intervenes in teens behaviors through police,court to correct their involvement with the goal of rehabilitation. Juveniles who commit first or second degree murder receive a mandatory sentence of Life without parole. I agree that it is unfair and teens should not be sentenced without parole because their brain isn’t fully developed, minors do not have the right of an “adult”, and some teens grow up in a negative environment. “Teen-brain research is the…

School sports are commonly mistaken as distractions for the student-athletes. However, sports can help a student develop in their physical and emotional health, socially, and they also help teach students many life lessons. Critics say that sports can be distractions from school and can pull players away from friends they already have. Research indicates that one of the primary benefits of high school sports is physical and emotional health. In the scheme of things there are many long-term…

Dr. Freeman was an idealist doctor hungry for fame who would champion the century’s most infamous procedure the lobotomy. He wanted to solve all of the problems of psychiatry and he wanted to do it fast. The lesson here is not how man can go off the rails but how science can go off the rails. Elina was the first patient to undergo the procedure that the doctor had only perfected weeks before he called it transorbital lobotomy. In a transorbital lobotomy, Freeman would first have the patient…

understand the argument that teens who have murdered have stripped others of their life and should therefore be stripped of their own freedom and life, I lean more towards the science behind it all. Teens have highly underdeveloped brains. Their frontal lobes -in charge of decision making - are still growing. Thus, when faced with stressful situations and hormones rushing through the body, they may make atrocious decisions. Additionally, it’s important to consider the background of the teen in…

The intercession between the words and the color of the words poses a problem as your brain receives it (Chudler, 2015). In the anterior cingulate cortex, the front part of the cingulate cortex, the Stroop Effect causes the frontal lobe to become activated while the task is being performed. Two areas known as the anterior cingulate cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex are activated, which are obligated to monitor conflict and resolution. As subjects performing the task…

This is a good point but overall we should not be forcing the uneducated to vote. The frontal lobe of the brain is responsible for judgment and decision-making and does not fully develop until the age of twenty-one, so it would be more logical to change the voting limit to twenty-one. It would also make sense to have people pass a basic constitution…

An individual’s growth is characterized by various developmental categories including physical appearance, regulation of emotions, cognitive and language abilities. Often the development is thought to be differentiated by the numerous cultures globally yet in the documentary Babies directed by Thomas Balmès illustrates the similarities among all four countries he documents. As one infant (Ponijao) is from Namibia his culture is largely different in comparison to the baby (Hatti) from the United…

Memory is a very complicated aspect to cognition. There are three types of memory sensory memory, short-term (working) memory, and long-term memory. A significant amount of research has been done each of the types of memory. Long-term memory has been divided into two types of long-term memory; declarative (explicit) memory and nondeclarative (implicit) memory. Declarative or explicit memory includes semantic and episodic memory; these are the memories you know you have and are consciously…

among numerous other harmful effects (alcohol’s damaging effects). The guaranteed detriment of alcohol on the adult brain is astonishing, but the effects on the immature brain are staggering. The uncooked teenage brain contains undeveloped frontal and parietal lobes which aid in decision making and logic. This causes adolescents to make less than perfect decisions to begin with, but tainted with poisonous syrup, it becomes a breeding ground for alcohol abuse. If the human brain does not fully…