Neurocognitive

Most people have awakened from a euphoric dream and have tried to fall back asleep to continue the dream. Others are awoken as they jerk themselves awake from a nightmare. Patients with PTSD often claim to have relived traumatic events through their dreams. People are constantly reading books and websites that claim to interpret their dreams because it continues to fascinate the reader. The first dream analysts argued that dreams were meant to tell the future. Sigmund Freud disagreed, however,…

Introduction Many believe that people capable of committing serial murder or spree killing are born “evil,” and in some cases this can be perceived as at least somewhat truthful. This however cannot be the case for Lee Boyd Malvo, one of the two people responsible for the D.C. Sniper Attacks. The D.C. sniper case, also known as the Beltway sniper attacks, were a stretch of organized shootings that occurred over a three week period in the states of Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Colombia…

Silveris provides us research-based studies that tell us adolescent drinking has increased almost ten percent in the last ten years. The question Silveri attempts to answer is what effects does this have directly on adolescents, and on society as a whole. Is this the effect of underlying factors such as alcohol being easier to obtain by adolescents or even an increase in depression by adolescents? Additionally Silveri discusses the types of harms adolescent drinking has directly the brain.…

Definition Substance Abuse - Related and addictive disorders are when an individual intoxicates their own body and abuse the use of one or more substances. The intoxication poisons an individual 's body thus causing many effects, ranging from mental to physical problems. The reason this is considered a physiological disorder is the addiction: the act of becoming enslaved to a constant action or substance making you unable to stop. Most of the time becoming abusive to misuse and being harmful.…

being developed which is a myth. Sleep has a main function of helping improve memory formation. Explained, the theory by Sigmund Freud, dreams can have a symbolic meaning even when not recalled. Dreams most commonly reflect on interests called neurocognitive theory. Non-dreamers are mistaken with sleep disorders which is not the case, the brain doesn’t have the ability to…

In 1987, Baron-Cohen introduced the theory-of-mind hypothesis of autism. In his hypothesis he gave an explanation for the social and communication disabilities in the autism disorder. Baron-Cohen’s tests showed that most children with autism with greater mental and verbal abilities than a four-year-old could not pass the same tests as the four-year-old could. These tests included the Sally-Anne false-belief task which involves a story in which Sally leaves her doll in a basket and goes out to…

think. (Shan, 2012)" It is called Alzheimer's disease (AD). It was described first by Alois Alzheimer in 1907. Most people use AD synonymously with dementia, but dementia was one of the DSM-IV's broad diagnostic categories. It is now called Major Neurocognitive disorder. To use dementia…

122 N.M. 246, 252; 923 P.2d 1131, 1137 (1996)]. It was found that Mr. Moreno’s past mental health issues and interactions with the legal system do not preclude his ability to proceed with adjudication. Although Mr. Moreno presents with some neurocognitive weaknesses, which may be the result of his chronic mental illness and long-term alcohol and marijuana dependence, he does not present with global impairments that would render him incompetent to stand trial. Mr. Moreno presented with both…

I. Key Points • Evidence from animal studies supports a causal relationship between intravenous and inhaled anesthetic exposure and brain development, triggering increased apoptosis, with negative neurocognitive and behavioral outcomes. • All these negative events take place during a high vulnerability period on brain development known as “brain spurt”. • Normally, 70% of neurons will undergo apoptosis during brain development. Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate receptor modulation…

From a young age, Evan Treborn suffered from blackouts and he couldn’t recall what happened during those moments. His grade school teachers raised his mother’s attention to this issue after he drew a horrific picture of himself standing over dead bodies. His mother hoped that Evan didn’t have the same illness as his father, who was living in an institution. Evan Treborn begins to blackout many traumatic experiences and when he “wakes up”, he can’t remember what had happened, or where he is. His…