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    stress in my life when I think about the possible outcomes of how I will do on a test before I take the test. The evidence is cortisol is a poison that raises your heart level and how you can use premortem to reduce it, how you can train your hippocampus to remember certain items or places, and how medical conditions should be focused on pre-planning for that event. To further my agreement with Levitin, I will continue into cortisol and how to lower it. Premortem is the ability to think ahead…

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    Kinesin Synthesis

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    Our logic for choosing kinesin for developing CNS therapeutics is based upon our own research, which found that kinesins are transcriptionally upregulated during memory storage and that they are both necessary and sufficient to induce long-term memory storage (LTM) in the marine snail, Aplysia californica (Puthanveettil et al., 2008; Fig 1). Furthermore, other researchers have also discovered that an increase in specific kinesin function in the mouse forebrain improves working memory (Wong et al…

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    cardio training increases the size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory and spatial navigation. This study, conducted by Erickson et al. (2011), provides scientific evidence for Asp’s claim. Exercise Training Increases Size of Hippocampus and Improves Memory The authors investigated the deterioration of brain structures that occurs with age and affects memory. To determine…

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    Vargha-Khadem Case Study

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    Quiz on Vargha-Khadem paper 1. How does Tulving describe the two main types of memory? Tulving describes two main types of memory: Semantic and Episodic Memory. Tulving described the semantic memory as “context free” memory due to its fact oriented nature. In contrast, he called the episodic memory “context rich” memory, since recollection of the episodic memory is often enriched with details and emotional connections about the event. Both semantic and episodic memories are types of…

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    Memory In Inside Out

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    In Inside Out, Riley’s memories are stored as orbs, stored in a limitless library, organized into different categories. This library is a simpliar way of referring the hippocampus. The movie doesn’t touch much on this, but each memory is sorted and put into alike divisions so they are easy to recall. Each memory has an emotion tied to it, which the movie emphaizes. Riley has Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger, or Sadness connected…

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    Phineas Gage Investigators have considered the cerebrum for a significant long time to find the exact part of the brain in scholarly limits. Phineas P Gage, a railroad improvement expert got a traumatic personality change, which gives learning into accurately how a Traumatic Brain Damage (TBI) affects scholarly limits. Phineas Gage's incident uncovered basic information about how the brain settings support mental limit when a (TBI) happens. A couple structures shape the cerebrum, which accept a…

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    Black Muddy River

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    regular deterioration of the brain. Dissociative amnesia, however, affects each demographic equally, and has no particular bias (“Dissociative Amnesia”, Mayo Clinic, “Amnesia”). Neurological amnesia can afflict any person with brain damage to the hippocampus or other memory forming regions of the brain (“Amnesia,” Mayo…

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    functions are known to be carried out in the hippocampus so the researchers wanted to know whether the hippocampus could distinguish between remembering the past and imaging the future. To address this question the researchers used a series of techniques; fMRI also multivariate and univariate analysis techniques. When using the fMRI it is known to be very sensitive to movement. This in turn led to omission of some data due to a participant’s movement.…

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    Dreams And Memory Essay

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    everyday lives and dreams are based on everyday events, women have a better chance of remembering their dreams. Lizette Borreli from Medical Daily claims that a man’s hippocampus “…is smaller than that of women’s, especially after age sixty” (“Women have Better Memories than Men: How Estrogen Levels Boost Recall”). If the hippocampus is bigger in women than there is more room to store memories from everyday events which allows them to remember more things more clearly. If women are able to…

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    1. Reverses Damage to the Brain Caused by Stress Stressful experiences, such as losing a loved one or being diagnosed with an illness, can atrophy the brain. This is particularly true of the part of the brain known as the hippocampus, which is responsible for memory. Over time, this damage can result in memory loss. Exercise reverses this damage, which can result in your loved one having increased cognitive function. 2. Releases Endorphins that Calm and Relax Endorphins are a type of…

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