Occipital lobe

different parts: the frontal lobe, the parietal lobe, the temporal lobe, and the occipital lobe. (See annexe 1) The first lobe is the frontal lobe; the frontal lobe controls your creativity, your problem solving, your judgement, your intellect, your attention, your behaviour, your coordination, your smell, and your personality. The second lobe is the parietal lobe; it processes information like pain, pressure, touch, and how to judge distances. In the parietal lobe there is two Cortexes, the…

The human brain, just like all the other parts of our body is unique. It gives us the power to speak, think and to solve problems. It works by using the electrical and chemical process to take in, organize, interpret, store and use information. The nervous system is divided into central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS consists of the brain and spinal cord and they are the decision makers of the body. Sensory information gathering and action transmission occurs…

limbic system controls emotion reactivity, attachment, affect regulation, and long-term memory. The limbic system is actually one of my favorite aspects or lobe of the brain. The limbic system is one of my favorites because it is the part that makes us human. It holds our memories, emotions, and attachment to life itself, without this amazing lobe we would be emotionless beings walking around; much like robots. Lastly, the cortex the top layer of the brain and it controls logical thinking,…

paraphasias, however, they are aware of their paraphasias and try to correct them. Reading aloud will result in semantic and phonemic paralexias (Papathanasiou & Coppens, 2017). Transcortical Sensory Associated with lesions affecting the parietal-occipital region (Adams et al.,…

D.J. Fluker, offensive lineman, of the San Diego Chargers, experienced a concussion on November 22 during their game against the Kansas City Chiefs. Fluker will count this down as his fourth known concussion of his career. He had symptoms following their game that included a headache (Gehlken, 2015). All of this was after he experienced a concussion four days before during a practice. There is no set concussion protocol with the NFL rules on how many days a player must be nonactive. During…

As previously learned in class, the definition of evolution is the change in variant frequencies in a population over time. The four forces that evolution acts on are mutations, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection. From an evolutionary psychology perspective, the physical structure of the brain has changed over time, thus allowing humans to develop complex behavioral patterns. When comparing brains with primates, humans have a larger and heavier brain. When compared to a…

science is today, doctors and scientist still have many questions about the human brain, only having limited answers. “The brain made up of specialized functions that work together, and it is then divided into several lobes. All which have an important role”. (Webmd) The parietal lobes, manage sensations, and body movements like our…

Dementia affects an estimated 3.8 million people around the world. It is most common in the ages of sixty five-years and older. It is also the sixth leading cause of death in people of the United States, and the fifth leading cause in people over the age of sixty-five. Dementia can start early, and be a very slow process that is evident throughout the rest of the patient’s lives. There are currently no cures for dementia, but there are treatments to help some of the symptoms that go along…

this behavior would be a result of environmental stimuli, such as a previous experience in line at the restaurant. However, through the biological perspective, this behavior would be attributed to possibly the occipital lobe processing the visual of a waiting line, and then the frontal lobe deciding to conform to the rules and wait in said…

There are approximately 2 million people living in the United States who have undergone an amputation, and of those 2 million, up to 60-90% suffer from phantom limb sensations or phantom limb pain. Interestingly, these sensations do not seem to always fade with time as a patient adjusts to the loss of a limb, but as many as 70% report phantom sensations several years after the loss of the limb (Hanley et al., 2009; Foell, Berkrater-Bodmann, Diers, & Flor, 2014; Preissler et al.,2012;…