Hippocampus

Music is a popular and powerful tool. Many of us use music for many reasons, whether it be to relax, escape from current unpleasant circumstances, or if we are in a bad mood and are looking to shake that feeling- music is the first alternative to picking up our spirits. Maybe there is a big exam that you have to study for but just can’t get your mind to focus, once you put on some classical music-somehow, you find yourself very in-tuned with your books and able to retain the information better…

found that there is no evidence that listening to any type of music can enhance a child’s learning ability (How Music Affects The Developing Brain). Although, as it is already stated in the third and fourth paragraphs, music only strengthens the hippocampus, corpus callosum, as well as the white and grey matter in the brain. Listening to music does not guarantee that the listener will be smarter, it simply improves their chances of becoming a better learner. Music is not a miracle worker but it…

neurotransmitter called serotonin. Serotonin can be found in parts of the hindbrain and the midbrain. Because serotonin is found in these areas, ecstasy can heavily effect their functions, whether they are harmful or pleasurable. For example, the hippocampus and the cortex are responsible for both learning and memory; thus, MDMA can damage one’s learning ability and ability to remember. Serotonin is associated with functions such as mood,…

amount of dopamine receptors in the hippocampus results in better episodic memory? It’s a wonder why some people have great memory of past events, while others have none. As an adult it gets increasingly harder to remember events you experienced as a child. It has always been a phenomenon as to why you can’t remember the memories you had as a child. Why you forget what happens before the age of four. As an infant your brain is busy making new cells in the hippocampus, so they don’t store…

This sleep deprivation study titled Maternal sleep deprivation at different stages of pregnancy impairs the emotional and cognitive functions, and suppresses hippocampal long-term potentiation in the offspring rats was conducted by six researchers known as Peng, Y., Wang, W., Tan, T., He, W., Dong, Z., Wang, Y., & Han H. They proceeded with this study by obtaining male and female Sprague–Dawley rats from Chongqing Medical University Animal Care Centre. Next, they took these rats to the…

It is almost impossible to imagine our way of modern life without any music. There are so many ways for us to hear music, such as listening to the radio, go to concerts or play a musical instrument ourselves. According to the Dutch Radio Advice Bureau, 60 percent of the Dutch population owns and listens to their own radio installation and 66 percent listens to the radio in the car (Dutch Cowboys, 2013). These numbers show that music, indeed, is involved in a lot of people’s lives. On top of…

should present with deficits, but this was not found. Instead, the results fit better with SCT (Hassabis & Maguire, 2007), which, though mentioned briefly, was largely neglected by the authors as an explanation for their results. SCT argues that the hippocampus has a role in providing a context in which everything else falls into place; without such context we would have fragmented EM and EFT (Hassabis & Maguire, 2007). Therefore, hippocampal dysfunction will not lead to complete EM and EFT loss…

Study after study shows that any physical activity leaves behind many positive benefits but how much exercise does that imply and what kind of benefits are likely to be seen or even felt. There is no right or wrong answer although the Department of Health and Human Services recommends a minimum of 20 minutes everyday doing moderate aerobic activity such as walking or mowing the lawn combined with 10 minutes of vigorous activity related to running or sports while mixing in 2 days of weight…

Many think of their memory as a fairly simple thing, they either have a good or bad memory. Psychologists however categorize memory into into different types of memory, based on the information stored and how long it is stored. These different types of memory are held in 'stores', consisting of the sensory, short-term and long-term memory. The multi-store model of memory was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968. The first store of memory is the sensory memory. This 'store' of memory is the…

Trauma-Related Amnesia: A Window of Uncertainty in the Serial Podcast The malleability of memory is an enigma. While it can be unpredictable at times, we can manipulate our brains to extract memories. In court cases, however, extracting memories becomes problematic and challenging. In the podcast Serial, that was based on a murder that happened several years ago, inconsistencies hinder the strive for truth. While Jay claims that Adnan killed a girl called Hae, problems with memory cause…