Neuroanatomy

Analysis of “My Stroke of Insight” The Ted talk “My Stroke of Insight” given by a Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, is about how humans have a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere and how humans have different perceptions of themselves because of it. In the right hemisphere people tend to think that they are “energy-beings connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres as one human family.” People who tend to think with their left hemisphere are responsible for…

EFFECTS OF POVERTY ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Abstract This paper explores the effects that poverty has on cognitive and brain development in childhood. Living in poverty places children at very high risk for problems across a variety of domains, including schooling, behavioral regulations, and health. Hanson, J.L., Hair, N., Sheen, D.G., Shi, F., Gilmore, J.H., Wolfe, B.L., Pollak, S.D. (2013). Environmental stressor of poverty results in many adverse effects on children, none of which are good.…

1. What is damaged in patient S.M.? Patient S.M suffered damage to her bilateral area of the amygdala. What did previous research with patient S.M.demonstrate about her impairments? That the damage to the amygdala resulted in an inability to recognize fear from facial expressions, but scientists were unaware of why or how the damage had caused this reaction in the patient. 2. What did the current study (i.e. the one you are reading) demonstrate about patient S.M.? What is the precise nature…

Memory is defined as “The mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving, facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recognizing previous experiences.” Many people rely on their memories and are convinced their memory is always correct. Scientist have tested memory multiple times and found that memory is not all that reliable. Memory has been found to be affected by many factors such as emotions, verbs, selective attention, and many more. The following article explores the ways memories are…

The Giver is stresses the importance of human memories. Above all, our ability to recall from the past is significant and plays a major part in how we get along in everyday life. Decision making, taking tests, and using common sense are all examples of how memory helps us. The decisions we make impact our past, present and future. The Giver takes place in what seems to be utopia or a paradise. Life is good and people are happy. Everyone plays games and is polite to each other. But something is…

The human memory is an inaccurate storage of our lives, memories are often revised, cut out, or replaced. Jim’s experience with incorrectly recalling the day his parents won the lottery can be due to many different ways the brain forgets information. Jim may know that his parents won the lottery but not have enough paid attention to the specific details of the day. This occurs often with exciting events, you focus so much on what is happening we do not remember particular details. This…

Take a moment and look back on a memory that you would rather forget. Maybe you are picturing a relationship that ended badly, or perhaps the death of a family member. Maybe you are remembering a traumatic incident in your past, or maybe you are a war veteran trying not to relive the horrors of war. Regardless of the memory you have recalled, it is likely that, at some point in your life, you have come across one of these painful memories and wished there was a way to erase them from your mind.…

While seated in my nan’s hospital room, my attention was quickly drawn to the room across us. The door had been left ajar, and I could not help but gawk at what was going on there. Laid on the bed, was a seemingly young gentleman who looked like he could not muster the strength to hold a needle in his hand if he wanted to. Though sweating profusely, he was simultaneously quivering under a mountain of blankets. He was extremely debilitated to the point that he had to be held up by three nurses…

Main premises standing behind the science of psychology are an explanation and differentiation between a normal and abnormal behaviour. The way how a society perceived and described the abnormal behaviour has been evaluating throughout the years. Although, these days, two of the most popular models deserve a particular attention. The first one called the biological approach, believes that the abnormal behaviour has its source in a physical difficulties. Second one, the behaviourist approach…

Charles Drew Essay Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3rd, 1904 in Washington, D.C. a African American physician who found way to process and store blood plasma in “blood banks”. He controlled blood plasma programs for the United States and Great Britain in WWII, but he resigned after the ruling that blood of the African Americans would eventually be segregated Dr.Drew Died April 1st, 1950. Dr.Drew found some unusual discoveries when in storage and processing of blood for transfusions. He…