Neuroimaging

What is your stressor? Is your stress, emotional, physical or and mental? There are Thousands of people that are affect by stress in many ways. Stressors cause stress which can be real or imagined. Stress that affect a person's in a short term known as acute or Episodic Acute were a person's suffer acute stress frequently , there is also where a person's can be affected in a long term period which is chronic stress. Although stress is not good or bad there are two times of stress one is known…

predisposition to learn language is supported by evidence allocating more processing space, even at birth, to the superior surface of the left lobe left to Heschel’s gyrus (the primary auditory reception area) (Nelson, 2010). In addition, functional neuroimaging studies of infants also have indicated a strong bias for speech processing to occur in the left perisylvia region (similar to that found for adults). Furthermore, the right hemisphere is equally responsible as the left, particularly for…

Throughout the history of the science of psychology, researchers, clinicians, and theorists have all attempted to answer the question “what makes us uniquely human?” It is obvious to the untrained observer of nature how humans are different from other mammals in the animal kingdom: humans can think rationally and logically, have feelings and emotions, develop more slowly than any other mammal, and are able to work together on a massive scale to form sprawling civilizations. When one steps back…

Almost everyone has no idea what the difference is between a nightmare and a night terror. Nightmares are when they wake you up from your sleep terrified and alert. In nightmares, you can still remember what the dream was when you wake up, and sometimes for a longer period of time. Night terrors are short, after dark episodes that cause extreme terror and panic. Most of the time you can't even remember what the night terror was about. When Broughton started an investigation on nightmares, he…

Introduction Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex, irreversible brain disorder that causes nerve cells to die within the brain, progressively affecting dysfunction in memory and cognitive ability, behaviour and language problems (National Institute on Aging, n.d.). Primarily this disease affects older adults over the age of sixty, although it is not considered a normal part of the aging process (Dementia Alliance International, n.d.). AD is considered the most common of the dementia diseases, a…

Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) refers to the change in cerebral blood flow (CBF) in response to a vasoactive stimulus (Kety and Schmidt, 1948). Impaired CVR has been linked with many cerebral and cerebrovascular pathologies (Glodzik et al., 2013; Greenberg, 2006a; Han et al., 2008; Mandell et al., 2008c; Mikulis et al., 2005; Yezhuvath et al., 2012; Zhao et al., 2007), to study the effects of drugs on cerebral vasculature (Pattinson et al., 2007; St Lawrence et al., 2002) and also presurgical…

Treatment of co-morbid alcoholism and PTSD in veterans ? comparison with other drug dependencies 11-15-16 Loggins, K., Gutierrez, C.A., PharmD, Wilcox, R.E., PhD.* Target: Journal of Addiction and Preventive Medicine ABSTRACT Combat instigated PTSD is one of the more complicated psychological conditions that occur in the modern world. To add to the complications of treatment, PTSD is often accompanied by other psychological comorbidities and substance use disorders; of which the most…