Hippocampus

the hypothalamus is working at full capacity, but altered, then the link to emotion and reward would also be altered. Zombies would not have regular emotions, and that can be related back to the limbic system, more importantly the hippocampus and amygdala. The hippocampus works with the amygdala to form emotion with memories, but since zombies have a long-term memory loss, they cannot formally create emotions. However, a main emotion that can be seen in a zombie is aggression. They are…

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget is a personal memoir by Sarah Hepola. The author opens the book with a monumental scene in her life that really sticks out to her and her journey of alcohol dependency and self- discovery. She just briefly touches on the subject but then transports the reader back to the beginning of her life. She explains her childhood, her upbringing, and what she suspects to be the beginning of her addiction to alcohol. She grew up in a small town in Dallas,…

day on the treadmills and the researchers found that those who ran had different levels of neurogenesis, the growth and development of nervous tissue, than those who didn’t. They found this out by microscopically examining brain tissue from the hippocampus of each rat. One of the researchers said that “sustained aerobic exercise might be most beneficial for brain health also in humans”. The result of this experiment the researchers did is very important because in previous research the new…

cause the functional and morphological changes in the hippocampus in rodent and primates. Stress-induced raises of glucocorticoids augment the extracellular accumulation of excitatory amino acids (EAAs) such as glutamate which results in hippocampal damage at cytoarchitecture reduced cell sprouting, cause neural cell death and functionally affect the learning and memory. Related to the traumatic stress disorder causation on the hippocampus, the researchers exposure analogously affect…

Dissociative and personality disorders are common among the realm of patients who experience mental illness. These is often associated with a sense of being detached from oneself, perception of people and things being distorted, having a blurred sense of identity, having dysfunctional relationships, or being emotionally unstable. Unlike borderline personality disorder, however, dissociative identity disorder is quite rare. Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formally known as multiple…

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive condition that occurs in the brain, begging in the hippocampus and continuing damage to the cerebrum, which effects the memory, thought and behavior of an induvial. Alzheimer’s is a form of dementia. Dementia is not a specific disease, rather a general condition that describes an impairment of normal mental functions, such as that of memory loss that impedes normal day to day life. Approximately 60-80% of individuals experiencing dementia are victims of…

areas of the brain play a significant role when it comes to depression-amygdala, the thalamus and the hippocampus. Various researches such as the fMRI study, which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience investigating 24 women who had been diagnosed with depression, showed that the hippocampus was relatively smaller for people who had depression. In this study, it showed that the hippocampus of depressed women was approximately 9% to 13% smaller than for women who were not depressed. The…

Cortisol is directly related to stress levels. In addition to being a stress flag, cortisol affects the hippocampus which directly influences learning and memory. John Newcomer discovered the correlation between cortisol and the hippocampus and conducted the Washington University Study in 1999. This study tested the relationship between high levels of cortisol and memory impairment. Newcomer tested 51 individuals by administering…

individuals without autism (Autism Speaks, 2016). Over the years, scientists and researchers have identified that a combination of gene mutations and environmental factors significantly influence early brain development. The cerebral cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, brain stem, cerebellum, corpus callosum, and basal ganglia are all extremely important structures…

Compare and Contrast Parkinson and Alzeihmer disease Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are both degenerative brain diseases. However they differ in their symptoms, biological. Similiarities Parkinson and and alzeihmer usually occur after 50 years of age and both are neuro degenerative disease they destroy neural system thus cause in loss of memory and other neural functions. Another thing that is common between them is that they are progressive disease they get worse over time.…