Occipital lobe

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons written by Sam Kean is a collection of stories throughout history that depicts the discovery, symptoms, and shifts in the fundamental understanding of the brain and brain injuries. Within the pages of this book, Kean does a masterful job explaining the intricacies of the brain, providing captivating stories to stimulate the reader, all while encapsulating valuable information on the brain. The book is written from a scientific perspective, invoking brain…

Bulimia nervosa is becoming an all too common eating disorder . It is characterized by the desire to lose weight or to control the individual’s current weight. Those who suffer from this condition use abnormal methods to control or lose weight. The victim may restrict their diet, binge eat and or purge to rid their bodies of the calories. In some individuals, diuretics and laxatives are used in combination with purging while others may exercise in excess. None of these methods is a safe or…

However, blindness in children like Lizzy who have Shaken Baby Syndrome or Traumatic Brain Injury, is more common due to the trauma of the occipital lobe. The occipital lobe is located at the rear of the skull, and is responsible for controlling vision and visual processing. Any trauma leading to blindness drastically impacts a child’s life, lifestyle and habits. The World Health Organization (WHO), states…

Health, 2007, brain of girls develop in a different sequences and tempo compared to boys. As they researched by scanning 829 brains that they gathered for over 2 years from 3 to 27 years-old, researchers found several remarkable comparisons. The occipital lobe showed rapid development in girls from 6 to 10 year old while boys only showed the growth after 14 years old. According to Janet Hyde, PhD, Madison psychologist, “Majority of these girls and…

The brain is the most important body organ in your body nothing can function without your brain. The brain contains the way it moves, feels, and its senses of emotions, including the lungs, heart, and stomach. which is the part to the central nervous system. There are three main structures of the brain, the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. Forbrain their are two different types of forebrain which is (diencephalon and telencephalon). The diencephalon structure contains the…

Paul Pierre Broca talked about ‘le grand lobe limbique’ in 1878 or the great limbic lobe and used the term “limbic” (from the Latin limbus for border) to the rounded rim of the cortex which also has the cingulate and the parahippocampalgyri. However, its supposed role in emotion was elaborated by the American physician, James Papez in 1937 in the influential paper titled ‘A proposed mechanism of emotion’. This anatomical model is called the Papez circuit.[2] In the year of 1948 scientist…

enlarged posterior fossa, upward displacement of the torcula and splayed hypoplastic cerebellar hemispheres.” The second case was a 30 year old women who was 39 weeks pregnant. She had a US history of decreased fetal movement. US demonstrated possible occipital encephaocoele. A MRI confirmed encephualocoele. The third case was a 31 year old who was 31 weeks pregnant. Ultrasound demonstrated hydrocephalus and abnormal posterior fossa. MRI concluded a diagnosis of Joubert syndrome. This finding…

The first stroke caused severe damage to the occipital lobe on the left side of his brain while the second stroke damaged the identical area on the right side of his brain. Consequently, these strokes completely disabled both his left and right visual cortex which made him blind. Although most people are…

Introduction The human brain can be divided in terms of its structure as well as function. Structurally under the cranium of any human being exists a brain with two plainly visible parts, each about the size of a fist, known as the right and the left hemispheres of the cerebral cortex. Even though these two hemispheres appear identical in terms of structure, they perform distinct functions. Split-brain studies and cognitive research has indicated that the left hemisphere is associated with…

damage are involved specifically in face recognition as he had normal memory performance and normal recognition of other types of stimuli. Areas of reduced brain activity in patient Herschel included the right fusiform face area (rFFA), the right occipital face area (rOFA) and right posterior superior temporal sulcus (rpSTS). Therefore the case of this prosopagnosic patient suggest that the visual processing of faces is carried out, at least to some extent in these areas. It is suggestive of an…