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For several years the frontal lobes, known to play a role in higher-order cognitive functioning, have been thought to contribute to episodic memory (EM) – a contribution in which researchers have recently made efforts to delineate. Here I will evaluate the notion that frontal lobes contribute to EM, and suggest reasons as to how it might do this. Lesion studies We can look at lesion studies to assess the contribution of the frontal lobes to EM. Unlike cued-recall and recognition tasks (which…

A transorbital lobotomy is when a pick like instrument, ie an icepick, is forced through the back of the patient's eye socket to sever connections with the prefrontal cortex, a part of the frontal lobe of the brain. Furthermore, the lobotomy was thought to be a “cure” for various mental illnesses, including anxiety, schizophrenia, and depression, but a lobotomy was performed on Howard simply because his step mother needed a way to “fix” him and get…

Dementia affects an estimated 3.8 million people around the world. It is most common in the ages of sixty five-years and older. It is also the sixth leading cause of death in people of the United States, and the fifth leading cause in people over the age of sixty-five. Dementia can start early, and be a very slow process that is evident throughout the rest of the patient’s lives. There are currently no cures for dementia, but there are treatments to help some of the symptoms that go along…

A., Scorza, F. A. (2010). Favorable effects of physical activity for recovery in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia, 51(3):76-79. DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02615.x The authors of this study analyzed the positive effects of exercise programs to prevent temporal lobe epilepsy. Other studies, which involved animals, were used as a reference to further explore the assault of epilepsy on the temporal lobe. Focusing on the neuroprotection and treatment the experiment showed that chronic…

science is today, doctors and scientist still have many questions about the human brain, only having limited answers. “The brain made up of specialized functions that work together, and it is then divided into several lobes. All which have an important role”. (Webmd) The parietal lobes, manage sensations, and body movements like our…

Daphne Bavelier strongly suggest in most moderation that gaming is more beneficial then more thought of. Video Games is a widely known source of multimedia entertainment. It 's impact on the general population of society on the other hand is questioned time to time by various researchers and also concerned parents. This essay is based on Tedtalks discussion and Daphne Bavelier 's review on the influence & effects on constant video game users & society. The use of multimedia in education has…

The first video on Aggression is the Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment. The Experiment was founded by Albert Bandera who was an American psychologist that set out to see how far watching other people influence another person 's behavior. According to the YouTube video uploaded by Geert Stienissen where Albert Bansera speaks on his discoveries, Bandura stated that: The segment was taken from an early experiment on learning of an aggressive styles of behavior through modeling children and how they…

Why I chose this topic I chose to research Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because I have personal experience about the subject. While doing this study I had to question myself multiple times on my opinions about war and military actions. I have always known that war is something that will always be happening, and I am aware that killing is the number 1 thing that happens during war, on both sides, but seeing people die, and not being able to help them, is a leading cause of PTSD in military…

To begin, Greene’s study entitled “Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex” and the hypothesis claimed that the amygdala enables automatic emotional responses while the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is responsible for an all things considered response, also known as the rational response. This experiment operated in this manner, participants underwent a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan while responding to 48 “trolley”-type…

this development takes place in the frontal lobe cortex of all young people.” (p. 350). Giedd et al (as cited in Bessant, 2008), emphasized that, “frontal lobes help people do ‘the right thing’ and are one of the last areas of the brain to reach a stable ‘grown-up’ state. This it is said tells us why young people are irresponsible and are unreasonable,” (p. 350). The actual size of this populations’ brains, and process in development of the frontal lobes, can have a huge impact on self-concept…