Hippocampus

Why learning a foreign language brings many advantages Every spring it’s time for High School students to decide which subjects they’re going to take the next year. Many High Schools have a wide spread possibility for their students to choose from, often there are many language possibilities, like French, Spanish, German... The students have to decide whether or not they will need to use the subject or language for their college application and profession. Almost every college requires two to…

Although brains cannot be distinctively categorized as male brains and female brains, there are some minor differences between them and there are certain characteristics that are more prominent in males and some characteristics more in females. These differences can be seen when the foetus is around 26 weeks. Men’s brains are supposed to be larger in size, but both male and female brains are said to be the same size in proportion to their bodies and are equally intelligent and have the ability…

In order to properly diagnose the patient, various biological theories of aging must be analyzed and applied to the patient’s situation, allowing for an accurate detection of their illness. The biological theories of aging are largely based on the idea of senescence, suggesting that aging results in some form of deterioration. In this particular case, the deterioration affects the patient mentally, leading to memory disorders, personality changes, and/or impaired reasoning. These are often the…

however, it is believed to relate to the brain’s hippocampus and neocortex, both of which take the responsibility for storing long-term memories. Scientists indicate that when sleeping, the hippocampus reviews what happened on the day for the neocortex, then after that, the neo-cortex will organize everything again. By that way, memories can last for a long time. If people do not sleep enough, this process of replaying memories from the hippocampus to the neocortex will not happen efficiently…

The Effect of Stress on the Brain Stress is predominantly a bodily response to an environmental stimulus. Stress responses are an important warning system to indicate approaching danger. For instance, the stress of physical pain is a warning for tissue damage, the stress of hunger warns of impending low blood sugar levels, the emotional stress of loneliness warns of potential vulnerability from predators and a lack of group protection (*) There are many different sources of stress,…

infection herpes at some point in their lifetime” rests on the fact that the virus remains in people’s body after death. Also Dr. Kell’s research did not explain where exactly in the brain the virus is attacking. Because the virus has to attack hippocampus, the…

triggered by verbal information (Willander and Larsson). A possible explanation for the strong link between olfaction and memory emotionality may be that the olfactory bulb is linked to the amygdala, associated with emotional experience, and the hippocampus, associated with memory (Reid, Green, Wildshut, and Sedkides). The other senses are processed by the thalamus (Jones). In addition, scent can also aid in triggering nostalgia (Reid, Green, Wildshut, and Sedkides). When I smell cinnamon, I…

Music education has been widely considered as dispensable for some time, making music programs the target of numerous budget cuts and possible complete removal from schools. Despite the large debate over the inclusion of music education in schools, research has found that musical training can improve various cognitive processes and skills, such as the development of language, reasoning, pattern recognition, and memory. Along with musical perception, musical cognition is actively constructed by…

Growing up, I was usually a shy child, always clinging to my parents when in unaccustomed situations or around unfamiliar people. As I grew older, this shyness manifested itself into a sometimes crippling social anxiety. My anxieties have affected my daily life since middle school- the thought of answering a phone when it is someone I don’t know calling often leaves me paralyzed, asking for help in a store is something I can never manage, and speaking out in class is always a nightmare. I would…

shunt excitatory depolarization and control tonic inhibition. These receptors are constitutively targeted for degradation and insertion to fine tune inhibitory synaptic transmission. Alternations to tonic GABAA receptor-mediated activity in the hippocampus was found in TLE animal models. Postmortem studies have shown a severe decrease of extrasynaptic GABAA Rs which may be related to loss of GABAergic interneurons and a decrease in GABA availability. Loss of GABAB Rs expression has also been…