Neuroscience

I’ve never been able to explain my major in neuroscience without the someone asking me, “Oh, so you’re going to study diseases and disorders, like Autism and Alzheimer’s?” I’ve now realized that it isn’t their fault at all. I mean, that’s all we people in the neuroscience field ever really talk about anyway. It’s basically like telling a construction worker, “Oh, so you’re going to destroy buildings and use explosives?” The study of neuroscience isn’t merely focused on the disorders and diseases affecting the nervous system, rather, much of neuroscience is concentrated on venturing through the nervous system to discover new functions and parts unknown to the world before. Neuroscience isn’t all about the “Dark Side” and it’s about time scientists, doctors, and students start talking about the “plus side” of the human brain and the study of neuroscience. EMOTIONS…

Cognitive psychology is the study of human mental processes that occur within the mind. It looks at such internal processes such as, memory, perception and attention. It came about in the 1950’s as a result of the behaviourist approach being flawed; internal mental processes cannot be observed. Therefore, from this an alternative method of looking at the physiological side of the brain had to emerge. Cognitive neuroscience was then born to identify the neural mechanisms, which are responsible…

The seminar was entitled “Towards a Culturally Informed Social Neuroscience: How Computer Science can Help Untangle Relationships Between Culture, Brain and Health” and was given by Dr. Elizabeth Losin. Dr Losin, is a faculty member in the psychology department and the director of the social and cultural neuroscience lab at UM. The purpose of the seminar was to illustrate the importance of computational methods in the sociocultural neuroscience field. As Dr. Losin explains, advanced…

Neuroscience research evolves at a rapid rate due to the persistent implementation of new diagnostic techniques. At times advancement within neuroscience outruns philosophical and religious understanding. Thus, it is crucial for Christian neuroscientists to approach the field with openness as well as proper perspective. In order to make sense of discoveries in neuroscience, a Christian must adequately defend their interpretation of the relationship between science and religion. A good defense…

Neuroscience is a new study in the sense of education because they are beginning to explore the biological processes and its relationship with education. Students are faced with many different challenges when it comes to getting an education including learning disabilities and stress that is presented in the classroom. Children and young adults that are still in school can experience a variety of different things while they are in the classroom over the years. The teacher is one of the only…

In taking Neuroscience in health and disease, I hope to learn about the brain and its many functions. I would also like to know how the brain and its functions are affected by certain diseases, and the way the brain reacts to these changes. This field interests me because the brain is such a complex organ that interacts with every organ in the human body. It regulates virtually everything that takes in the body, even though it is only one organ. What is even more fascinating is that there is not…

began during an independent research project in the second year of my master’s degree at Bangalore University. I was in awe when I realized how extraordinarily complex the neural mechanisms that support memory formation are and yet these profound neural events may be “undone” if the memories are not retrieved. Furthermore, I learned that memories can be embedded in chains, or “engrams”, composed of antecedent and subsequent events and may lack specific retrieval ‘checkpoints’. Despite having…

Neuroscience cannot effectively explain self is not the cause of their own behavior, nor can shows that our conscious mental state has no causal effect on our behavior. Some neurologists that agree on illusory free will studied free will by brain imaging techniques, mainly follow by an idea of if free will is not just a mere fantasy, then there should be a neurological reality to defense that. There is a mistake here of the premise: thinking about the relation between mind and brain, that we are…

The scientist I interviewed was Dr. Mario Beauregard, a neuroscientist at the University of Arizona. He studied neuroscience in University of Montreal and had received a bachelor and doctoral degrees. Besides these two degrees, he also received postdoctoral from University of Texas Medical school, Montreal Neurological Institute, and McGill University. Dr.Mario Beauregard has done numerous researches. The research that has made him stand out from all other neuroscientists was the 2007 research,…

In author Matthew Lieberman’s “Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect,” he expounds on his research in social neuroscience, where he reveals how essential our need to interact and connect with others around us is and the role that the lack of social interaction is playing in our everyday lives. He goes on to explain that this need to be social is as, if not more, important as our physiological needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Lieberman uses various forms of data collected from…