Human brain

overall likeability simply with someone’s name? How can a few letters create such a vivid association of memories, emotions, and more? The natural function of the human brain causes people to associate things with a certain name, leading to the name carrying a lot of meaning. F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes this natural function of the brain in order to add meaning to his writing. When someone changes their name in a book, the author can make it seem like they undergo a much more profound change…

there is plenty to choose from, but I concluded I wanted to study something to do with the human brain. I did my research and found both psychology and criminology caught my eye. I thought both fields were different from each other; Psychology Is the study of human brain and behavior while criminology is the study of crime and criminals. I realized they are actually alike in many factors like their human brain studies, their aid to the community, and interesting components. Furthermore, to…

care and education has been misunderstood as “just feeding, changing diapers, and giving naps.” However, research findings of human brain development enlighten us how infants and toddlers care should be evaluated, planned and implemented. Suppose you are an invited speaker for a seminar to present how infants and toddlers should be cared for or educated based on human brain research findings. What can be your three key ideas of the presentation to the educational practitioners, administrators,…

The Beauty of the Human Brain Everyone somewhere down their lifetime has been able to remember or memorize basic information, whether it is for pure enjoyment or as an obligation. For instance, if they remembered a book they read maybe as a kid or an activity somewhere down their life. All of these are some of the many ways we use our brain, which comes with memorizing or just simply as memories we obtain. The human brain is basically the command system in the body, it tells every muscle how to…

With the advent of new technologies, human life has reached a new level of development and quality. People have created information and mobile technologies in order to achieve maximum savings of time and minimum physical efforts. Thus, information became one of the most important resources to ensure human existence and progress. Information is the basis of any experience, and experience determines level and quality of an individual's life. The Internet is a global information environment, which…

and the human brain is that it has little to no effect on the way it functions. However, alcohol and other depressants measurably slow down the brain and nervous system inducing, “difficulty walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, impaired memory,” 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…

nineteen thousand people perished in a catastrophic event known as the Japanese tsunami. The assertion made by Aaron Kong, "It is human action and not nature that should be blamed for the destruction of our world and the suffering and death of so many people everywhere," is partly correct in the sense that humans are indeed responsible for the misery of many people. However, humans are not completely to blame because nature also plays a considerable role in causing carnage to our society. Over…

Stress explains that, “Disgust has been studied only in humans, where fMRI suggests that a region called the insula and the nearby putamen (part of the basal ganglia), not the amygdala are activated when we see or hear someone expressing disgust” (471). Later on in the text they say, “There is no one-to-one correspondence between an emotion and a brain region; that is, each emotion involves activity of more than one brain region, and some brain regions are involved in more than one emotion”…

The lateralization of brain function refers to how some functions, or cognitive processes tend be more dominant in one hemisphere than the other (Sperry, 1968). The medial longitudinal fissure splits the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres, joined by the corpus callosum (Gray, 1985). The two hemispheres demonstrate strong, but not comprehensive, bilateral symmetry in both structure and performance. Handedness is not a single variable, but can be placed in a spectrum of 4 separate…

psychological factors.”- "Depression." NIMH RSS. Web. 28 Nov. 2015. The utmost importance factor certainly lies in the brain, which scientifically wheels emotions, despite the prevalent lore has it that emotions resides in the heart. Levels of brain chemicals, as well as the functioning of nerve cells, and nerve circuit, are the areas that help the brain regulate moods. Therefore, the brain act as a significant role contributing to the causes of clinical depression. Although, the neurological…