Parietal lobe

Around 1 in 68 children are diagnosed with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) annually. Autism is a neurodevelopmental brain disorder generally discovered in infancy. Those who suffer from autism have significant deficits in social interaction, language and normal behaviour. Autistic Spectrum Disorder ranges from mild to very severe, affecting the child’s language and their perception of the world. Symptoms affect social skills and communication. Physically, the autistic brain is enlarged…

The definition of the bystander effect is as followed: a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. Social interactions can influence the way people react to a certain situation. Conformity also plays a major part in the bystander effect as well as sterotypes; it influences the way people react when they see other…

information to the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe and area V1 sends information back to the thalamus. These two areas feed information back and forth. Area V1 also sends information to the secondary visual cortex (V1) which then relays that information to different areas of the brain. The ventral stream runs along the occipital cortex to the temporal cortex, while the dorsal stream runs along the occipital cortex to the parietal cortex. The cells in the inferior temporal cortex…

Neuroeconomics: the neuroscience of decision making Neuroscience is a scientific field that studies brain activity though changes in brain blood flow. Neuroscience is the discipline in charge of studying through the nervous system activation that occurs in areas of the brain. The body receives information by its interaction with the world and that information gets through our senses, that information is caught from the nervous system and passes through the spinal cord until it arrives to the…

brain and cognition is formed and develops throughout infancy, childhood, and early adolescents. When the child is first born, they have low cognition in any form. As the child matures and develops, the brain does also. The cerebellum, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, hippocampus, etc. all begin to develop along with the child. The child first begins to develop simple cognitive functions, according to Piaget, this appears in four stages, the first stage is the sensorimotor stage. The sensorimotor…

The patient (pt) in room 584 is an 84-year-old Caucasian woman who was transferred to Lynchburg General hospital on December 12, 2016 from Stonewall hospital in Lexington in order to receive pulmonary care. Though she was admitted for unspecified dementia without behavioral disturbances, she was originally hospitalized at Stonewall since September 21, 2016 for atrial fibrillation with a low ventricular response rate, and dyspnea. She has co-morbidities of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body…

Mirror Therapy in Conjunction with Conventional Therapy The Benefits of Mirror Visual Feedback Introduction Optical illusions have long been thought of as fun experiments to trick our eyes. It is difficult to imagine a circumstance in which we could use an optical illusion in a rehabilitation setting to help improve a patient's condition. It wasn't until about two decades ago that Ramachandran and his colleagues had the idea of using something similar to an optical illusion to help reduce…

how chemical 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.…

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…

With an ancient history of civilizations using psychoactive substances as medicinal, ritual, and spiritual remedies, these drugs have shown positive treatments in more recent years. This notion that hallucinogenic drugs played a significant part in the development of religion has been extensively discussed for many years, causing controversial aspect of “hallucinogenic” or psychedelic drugs generate religious experience, and whether this experience is genuinely religious. Before considering the…