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resulting in cognitive and behavioral deficits. FTNCD is a common cause of dementia among patients’ ages 45 – 65 years. This group of neurodegenerative conditions is characterized by progressive and relatively selective atrophy of frontal lobes, temporal lobes, or both, and deterioration in behavior and personality or in language abilities culminating in dementia (DynaMed, 2016). Vascular neurocognitive disease (VND) This spectrum of cognitive impairments is associated with cerebrovascular…

body transmit information faster without loosing any signals along the way conecting other cells to the synapses (Berger, 2008). As we age myelination is forming in the frontal lobe which hepls cognitive development which includes reasonging, planning and decision making skills in addition to self control. The frontal lobe is fully developed at the age of 25 (sowell et al,…

In the article, “What H.M. Taught Us” by Howard Eichenbaum was published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience for Massachuetts Institute of Technology. In his article, he discusses the findings of Suzanne Corkin and her colleagues create a great pathway for the field of psychology to get a better understanding of memory, in this case specifically through studying amnesic patients, including the well-known patient, Henry Molaison. They characterized amnesia as a selective deficit in memory,…

Greene’s YouTube video highlights and fights against what is real and what is not. His ideas are based on science and nothing more than what the brain is capable to do. Also, what the brain is not able to do and that we also don’t know about. According to him what is real and what is not is based on perception, Greene’s intentions in ‘Perception – The Reality Beyond Matter’ Illustrate a certainty of which path most people want in life and it brings a general idea of a realistic path everyone…

Growth mindset, executive function, and empathy are three habits of mind that can help people achieve their goals. Growth Mindset mean a self-perception or self-theory that people hold about themselves. Believing that you are either intelligent or unintelligent is a simple example of Growth Mindset. The brain is actually quite like plastic, and can be reshaped over time, forming new neural pathways. The important part of Mindset is most of those who have achieved greatness, to use shakespeare’s…

Aggression Psychology Aggression is a range of behaviors that can result in both physical and psychological. Aggression and Violence is usually mistaken for the same thing but it's not the same violence is a physical force and destroys things while aggression is a angry or violent behavior. There is all sorts of aggression for an example Accidental Aggression, Expressive Aggression, Hostile Aggression, Instrumental aggression. The four that I listed above are usually justy seen in children and…

impulses to the temporal lobes of the brain where they become experienced as smell. “This results in our ability to recognize around 10,000 different smells,” (Zou, Li, & Buck, 2005). How we taste: Taste buds are embedded in small lumps on the tongue, called papillae. When we eat, chemicals in food dissolve by the saliva and come into contact with the taste receptors within the taste buds. Then, adjacent neurons fire, and send nerve impulses to the brain’s parietal lobe…

Adenocarcinoma is derived from ‘adeno’, which means gland, and ‘carcino’ for cancer. It can form in many parts of the body, but each tumor is unique to its location. As a respiratory cancer adenocarcinoma is found in the mucus-secreting cells on the outer part of the lungs. It is a part of a group of lung cancers known as non-small cell lung cancers, which are categorized together because of similar prognosis and treatment, rather than similar cellular shape like other diseases. Most cases of…

reading fiction has on different areas of our brain and its bene- fits to us as humans. She states how researchers have put a significant amount of time and energy into analyzing how reading fiction actively stimulates the human brain and it’s various lobes. With the help of a functional magnetic resonance machine (fMRI) re- searchers can watch which areas of the brain “light” up as a person reads certain words. Sensory words in particular, such as tastes and smells, when read activate the…

drinking age (Engel). It’s still dangerous for anyone to drink alcohol, whether twenty-one or not. The brain is still forming until the mid-twenties (Beacon). With the frontal lobe not yet formed, alcohol can cause great damage to young people. This is why the drinking age must remain at age twenty-one. The fact that the frontal lobe does not finish developing until the mid-20’s was taken into great consideration when the state and federal governments were trying to determine a reasonable…