Occipital lobe

Mrs. X is a 70 years old, Spanish female patient presented in the radiology department on a trolley. She appeared frail and had a low level of consciousness. The clinical history of Mrs. X shows the presence of lytic bone lesions and the doctor requested a skeletal survey to be performed to exclude myeloma. The department protocol points out the projections that must be done includes, posteroanterior and lateral projection of the skull, posteroanterior projection of the chest, anteroposterior…

The show Grey’s Anatomy is written by Shonda Rhimes which aired on March 27, 2005 on ABC. The show grey’s Anatomy follows the professional, personal, and the love lives of the Seattle Grace Mercy west attending, resident and interns as they try to juggle the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of being doctors. Additionally the inclusion of a variety of different medical specialties on the show such as Orthopedics, Neuro, Cardio, Plastics, Trauma and General add the element of being fresh…

region, seem to play specialized dedicated roles in language processing (Nelson, 2010). The left hemisphere’s 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…

It is easy to see how and why we have a variety of ideas regarding the cause, diagnosis and cure of psychological maladies. The complexity of the human brain is beyond our current level of understanding, so it makes sense that we have difficulties in determining what causes it to malfunction. In the case of my chosen subject (who I will refer to as Ryan), there are a variety of conditions which he struggled to comprehend. Ryan didn’t become aware of his psychological condition until he…

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness affects 2% of the world’s population, which means 150 million people suffer with this on a daily basis. This disorder inhibits people from recognizing the faces of those around them including family members. Prosopagnosia wasn’t really discovered or heavily studied until 1947, by Joachim Bodamer. There are two main types of prosopagnosia, acquired and developmental. Though often not heard of prosopagnosia has been the struggle of protagonists in…

The purpose of this paper is to use the habituation technique in young infants to evaluate one hypothesis derived from Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. I will compare 5-months olds in a task that involves possible and impossible outcomes. Piaget’s theory specifies the cognitive competencies of children of this age. 1a. one of the stages that Piaget formulated was the sensorimotor. Children at this stage experience their environment through the senses, by investigating how things feel,…

Throughout psychological healthcare, art and design-oriented fields, the alternative/holistic medicine industry, and the American economic market are the implementation of colors to promote a particular product or service. First introduced by ancient Egyptians in the sixth millennium BC, color has been utilized to capture one’s attention and to inspire emotions within the observer. Although a lack of scientific research exists, the research that is in existence supports color theory. It has…

and electrical events that occur within us affect our thinking, emotions and behaviour.” (Russell & Jarvis, 2007: 3) Within the brain there are different areas which control what we do from our emotions to movements, these lobes include, frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital and cerebellum each with their own function. The endocrine system which secretes hormones also has an influence over our behaviour, emotions and thinking as well as affecting the actions of specific organs. There are also…

The difference between nature and nurture is that nature is the idea that behavior is effected by your chemical and gene make up while nurture is the idea that you are a blank slate and your behavior is distinguished by experiments. They both effect behavior is what was discovered. * Dualism is supported by cognitive psychologists such as George A. Miller and Sigmund Freud * Rene Descartes dealt with Monism vs. Dualism & Interactive Dualism * Monism is the belief that the mind…

The purpose of our senses has to do with how our brain works with our body. All the senses in our body are created from the information that goes into the brain. The deeper view on the senses is perception. It creates a much bigger picture on how we view our five sense. The way that we perceive why we do what we do is perspective. All these objectives go with what we do in our everyday lives. As a class we all experienced these senses as we went to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and experienced…