Parietal lobe

change due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder the hippocampus, amygdale, and the medial prefrontal cortex. The region that is affected the most because of trauma is the amygdale. The amygdale is an almond shaped mass of cells located in the temporal lobe of the brain.…

A drastic increase to 61% of Netflix subscribers’ regularly binge-watching shows, in 2015, suggests that the screen addiction may result in profoundly negative physical and psychological effects on frequent internet users. Are humans becoming too reliant on technology that was created to help us? Worldwide there are over 75 million people now subscribed to video streaming website, Netflix, seeing a drastic amount of growth recent years. The technological revolution in the previous three…

this development takes place in the frontal lobe cortex of all young people.” (p. 350). Giedd et al (as cited in Bessant, 2008), emphasized that, “frontal lobes help people do ‘the right thing’ and are one of the last areas of the brain to reach a stable ‘grown-up’ state. This it is said tells us why young people are irresponsible and are unreasonable,” (p. 350). The actual size of this populations’ brains, and process in development of the frontal lobes, can have a huge impact on self-concept…

? Your self esteem is how you feel about yourself based on your actions. Its what you have control over. Its how you feel about yourself from the inside out. Overall its your values and the actions you take to become who you are. A question you might ask yourself is "Are you satisfied with yourself?" Your self worth has a much more spiritual bend to it. Because its directly related to your identity, you feeling of importance on earth, also its your sense of self. To me there 's a major…

this paper will take a bio-behavioural approach. Specifically, frontal lobe theory will be applied to the behaviour displayed leading up to and during the murder-suicide. In essence, while other causes can explain the behaviour displayed during the crime to some extent, frontal lobe theory can provide the most compelling explanation given the evidence. Firstly, it is important to preface with a brief outline of frontal lobe theory and its context within bio-behavioural theories of crime. A…

limbic underactivation which, “indicated that some of these people lack the ability to generate basic emotions that keep primitive killer instincts” suppressed (Brandt, 2007). Other researchers (Brandt, 2007) see similar deficits in scans of the frontal lobe, which is the part of the brain that deals with judgement calls and impulsive actions.James Blair, "believes that the amygdala forwards the wrong signals to the frontal cortex." (Brandt, 2007) However, there are scientists (Brandt, 2007)…

It has been well established that personal stress can affect our bodies and behavior, but what about the stress experienced by our parents or even our grandparents? It is not too much of a stretch to connect a mother’s stress during pregnancy to changes in the fetus. It makes sense that what the mother’s body goes through during pregnancy could also affect the child, however, in the New York Times article by Inna Gaisler-Salomon, “Inheriting Stress” (March 7, 2014), the author discussed her…

Reese is a normal teenager who enjoys sports and, of course, her phone. She loves to text, play video games, and get online. She used to be very active and played basketball every day. Reese is on her phone during school and does not have very good grades anymore due to being on her phone. Her mom took her phone away thinking maybe she will try to bring her grades up. This only made her try harder to get online. This is because of synaptic pruning in the brain, the highly active risk and reward…

Anderson, Damasio, Kilma, Bellugi & Brandt (1991) observed three patients with aphasia who were taught how to fingerspell. Out of all of the patients, two patients were able to fingerspell. The third patient suffered too much damage to the temporal lobe to be able to fingerspell. An additional study conducted by Brentari, Poizner & Kegl (1995) compared temporal sequencing characteristics among the different signers. The three…

The frontal lobe is the largest lobe in the brain and is situated at the front of the skull. “The frontal lobes are involved in motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior” (CNS, 2015). The frontal lobe is important for many different things, and if damage occurs it could cause a significant impact on any one of these or multiple areas. With a traumatic brain injury the communication intent, transmission,…