Insular cortex

During the evaluation of four articles that focus on self-regulation, anxiety, and fear effecting consciousness and moral responsibility, the different author’s present their arguments and views on how these emotional capacities and the ability to obtain self-regulation affect the decision making of an agent and whether or not they should be held fully morally responsible for their actions and decisions. In this paper, I will be explicating three different views on the capacities of…

This form of ostracism, elicits increased activity in the brain areas, such as the anterior cingulate cortex which also responds to physical pain. (Kross et al., 2011; Lieberman & Eisenberger, 2009) Another point to take into consideration in regards to psychology is the concept of how we process and remember information. There will be instances where one…

Ostracism is the act of being excluded from social interaction, previous research using a virtual ball game called the cyber-ball paradigm has been utilized to show that ostracism can occur even in situations where there are no real people playing, this intern has been shown to lower individual’s self-esteem. On the other hand, studies have also shown that neuroticism has a direct effect on a person’s self-esteem as well yet no study to date has linked these factors together. Therefore, the…

tract correlates to the ability to recover motor function. If the pathway from the primary motor cortex to the motor neurons in the spinal cord is disrupted, secondary motor areas of the brain will be recruited. Secondary motor areas are less numerous and less excitatory; therefore, they will contribute to motor recovery, but will not provide exact substitutions for projections from the primary motor cortex. Finally, strategies to promote adaptive responses can influence recovery of motor…

Every day patients rush into the emergency room due to various medical reasons. Some may have just experienced a severe car accident while others may be facing a battle with cancer. Whatever the case may be, if the patient is a competent adult, then he or she is legally and ethically empowered to make health care decisions for themselves. However, this is not the circumstance for adolescents, who range from ages 10 to 19.¬1 Since most people base their decisions on values, personal experiences,…

As sleep, addiction effects our behaviors and physical states of the body. Addiction can be referred to as a state in which one perceives intense intolerable desire for something because the response after contact with the stimuli simulated perceived pleasurable response. Consequently, Internet addiction has been acknowledged as a clinical diagnosis. Internet addiction is a compulsive–impulsive spectrum disorder, involving online and/or offline computer usage for excessive gaming, sexual…

grasping, writing, lifting, and gesturing. Copious studies suggest that the posterior parietal cortex is of paramount importance when executing hand actions and motions. Comparatively, past experiments exhibit bilateral posterior parietal cortex activation during one-handed movements with notable increases in the activity of the hemisphere contralateral to the active hand. Because posterior parietal cortex activity levels indicate relationships to hand choice, there are postulations…

Involvement of prefrontal cortex is particularly interesting because that is the area where there are the most abnormality differences between the regular person and the serial killer. Which might explain some of the serial killer behavior and where fantasies originated from. The anterior cortex is where the feeling of empathy is generated. People with narcissistic personality usually have a lack of empathy since…

Vera is an eight-year-old African American female who lives with her mother and has visitation with her father every other weekend. She was brought to the clinic by her mother in response to concerns reported by her teacher at school, as well as difficulties at home, concerning odd and disruptive behaviors, obsession concerning her mother’s safety, anxiety, and declining academic performance. Diagnosis Based on her presenting symptoms, Vera meets the full criteria for Obsessive Compulsive…

individuals develop a propensity to become antisocial. This evident where in the article where Bechara & Damasio (2002) stated, “Therefore, our findings suggest that the defective neural mechanism of decision-making associated with a malfunctioning VM cortex is one phenotype of the personality traits of ASPD.” As a substance dependent individual finds themselves tethered to their addiction…