Neuroimaging

What can cause someone become a pathological liar? Does something happen to the brain that can make someone become a compulsive lair? To define a pathological lair is when someone compulsively tell false stories or information with no motivation for personal gain. Through the study of M. Poletti, P. Borelli, and U. Bonuccelli who conducted research to find out exactly what is that makes a pathological liar. As M. Poletti, P. Borelli, and U. Bonuccelli stated, “Pathological lying is probably due…

The Upheaval that Neuroscience Will Bring to our Legal System It is no secret that technology is advancing at an extremely fast pace every day. Most people do not stop to think about the advancing of technology that invades an individual’s brain, thought processes, feelings, and beliefs, or even the fact that people could be convicted of a crime based solely on these new and still improving technologies. Today, neuroscience has not had much of an impact on our legal system, but Joshua…

Chapter two, “The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory”, was an overview of how our brain functions and how it is developed. Neuroscience is the study of the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Reading through the section of what brains are like, it was interesting the difference between the Central nervous system and the Peripheral nervous system. The Central nervous system only consists of the brain and the spinal cord, but the Peripheral nervous system consists of motor and sensory…

Humans process all information through a general, three-step process: encoding, storing, and retrieval (Weseley & McEntarffer, 2007). There are various models that provide an explanation of how the human memory works, such as the three box model and the levels of processing model (Weseley & McEntarffer, 2007). According to the three box model, also known as the information-processing model developed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968, newly perceived information is encoded through a set of stores:…

activity, some cognitive functions may undergo a negative dynamics. So in modern society the cognitive development of healthy children is more rapid and reaches high performance in comparison with previous generations. These neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies are connected with the concept of critical periods in cognitive development. During these periods the formation of certain cognitive functions occurs especially intensive, and achievable level determines further possibilities of…

Albert, Steven DeKosky, et al. The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease. US National Library of Medicine Health. The United States Government, May. 2011. Web. 19 Oct. 2015. In this scholarly article, the authors discuss how a workgroup chosen by the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association, is working on a…

DIFERENCIAL “Nadie es capaz de señalar el lugar del cerebro dónde se desarrollan las buenas ideas.” This quote extracted from Miguel Delibes’ novel, from the fifties, ‘El Camino’, reflects how the brain has long-time been known to be the organ where intelligence inhabits, though no one has ever been able to precisely allocate where those ‘good ideas’ come from. The uncertainty surrounding this brain-intelligence dimension will consequently be exposed and discussed. Professor Hunt probably makes…

Weekly Report” stated that sleep deprivation has also been linked to weight problems, often-times leading to either obesity or eating disorders. The Harvard Medical School website reported that mental and emotional health are closely linked, “...neuroimaging and neurochemistry…

Inhibitory control can be defined as the ability to suppress unwanted or inappropriate actions and thought processes which are not suited to present events (Rothbart & Posner, 1985). Often researchers study inhibitory control using task switching experiments requiring cognitive control in order to provide correct responses, outcomes usually include total error rates and reaction times. Inhibitory control deficits have been found in some clinical populations for example schizophrenia and…

• VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY: APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE USING ADNI DATA • ABSTRACT • INTRODUCTION • MRI PROCESSING • VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY o What is a voxel o VBM methodology • SPM o Preprocessing o Statistical Analysis • ADNI o Database • CONCLUSION • References ABSTRACT The curiosity to look into the brain has always interested researchers. As the brain grows in size its functioning improves and at a later age (old age) it also deteriotes.MRI…