Neuroanatomy of memory

cuts in each eye, and in more serious cases can lead to blindness due to holes in the visual cortex caused by lesions. Like the parietal and frontal lobes, the temporal lobe is responsible for many functions as well. The temporal lobe is associated with perception and Burton 3 recognition of auditory, memory, and speech stimuli. Visual memories are produced in this lobe and are formed in the ventral part of the temporal cortices. The temporal lobe is located directly in front of the occipital lobe. Damage to the lobe can be extremely powerful with symptoms including complex hallucinations (smell, sound, vision, and memory), impaired memory, impaired learning, and amnesia. G£N£RAlll£0 &…

The human brain is undoubtedly the most complex organ in the human body. This three-pound mass of jelly-like, dark and gray tissue controls all human activity. From walking to driving a car to breathing, the brain is the center of all the action in our everyday lives. The brain maintains your body’s basic functions, enables you to understand and react to your experiences and forms your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behavior. It consists of many parts that all collaborate as a team with one…

It was really interesting since people often change what they want to become as they age. So I continue to ask him, neuroscience is a difficult course, what was his driving force in reach the goal to become a neuroscience? He gave me an unexpected answer, it’s the same reason he want to become a neuroscientist since eight and because after finding something new it lead me to continue to another experiment! It’s really interesting, he said, that the body, mind and soul are not the same thing.…

person has had” (Dooremalen, 2), and claim that therefore psychology gives a more complete picture of a person’s identity. This is a high bar to meet. If this is what is necessary for neuroscience, it must also be necessary for psychology. This same psychologist could not deny that damage to certain parts of the brain can cause memory loss, depriving a person of their experiences. Clearly, memory and experience is in the brain, vulnerable to physical damage, and therefore physically represented…

Throughout Abnormal Psychology, we have learned different aspects that play a role in mental abnormalities that lead one to become more symptomatic. One specific element that has been very prevailing throughout this course is environmental factors. Although, genetic factors are a major part, one 's environment also plays an almost equal effect too. When observing individuals who are susceptible to mental illnesses or even those who already portray/acquire these illnesses, one can witness that…

This is basically how we obtain the majority of our fears, and is what brings our hippocampus into the process of fear. As said before, the hippocampus is what stores our memories. In fear conditioning, if a situation has a negative or dangerous outcome, it will be stored in our mind. When faced with a situation similar to a previous negative one, the hippocampus goes through its memories and the amygdala associates the situation with the previous outcome. This has been studied multiple times,…

The short story an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge takes place during the civil war in the United States. “A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama… The man’s hand were behind his back, the wrists bound with cord.” (Bierce) The narrator is in a very precarious situation. He is being taken to his own execution. As he walks closer to the hangman’s noose he begins to contemplate how he can escape. He notices the guards and the forest that the railroad track leads to. The rope is tied…

When someone is infected with brain pox the disease goes directly to the brain and nervous system. The brain pox attacks these systems and takes control of the person. In the book the people that got infected were infected through the spores in the air. The spores can get into the body through the person’s eyes, nose and mouth. People who are around when someone goes into the final stages of brain pox are extremely at risk since it is transferred through the air. Even if you are not touching the…

correlation of that exposure and how children are born with many psychological and physical defects due to the drugs. (Society for neuroscience, 2011) This kind of research is able to help us see how behaviors are inherited and how it can impact one’s intelligence. Equally important, Studies have shown how experiences impact genes that influence behavior and health over all. New insights have been made into how experience might produce long-term brain changes. Experiences like learning or drug…

a majority of one’s daily tasks. Playing an instrument activates the areas of the brain that involve movement, planning, attention, and memory (Bushak). With every instrument, one must move their muscles to create the sound that everyone can recognize as music. To become a true expert of an instrument, practice is necessary, which…