Posterior parietal cortex

+ What Is The Birth Defect, Cerebral Palsy? Cerebral palsy is a group of conditions that affect control of movement and posture. Because of this birth defect it causes damage to parts of the human brain that control movement, when a child is diagnosed or infected he or she cannot move their muscles normally. Symptoms could be mild or severe, the condition stays the same throughout their whole life. With treatment, most children or adults can improve their abilities. Many children have worse…

Chapter two, “The Neuroscience of Learning and Memory”, was an overview of how our brain functions and how it is developed. Neuroscience is the study of the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Reading through the section of what brains are like, it was interesting the difference between the Central nervous system and the Peripheral nervous system. The Central nervous system only consists of the brain and the spinal cord, but the Peripheral nervous system consists of motor and sensory…

The article illustrates findings describing separate visual pathways within the cortex that play different roles in interpreting visual information. These visual pathways include the ventral and dorsal streams which elicit visual perception and visual control of action, respectively. An important model for these findings was patient D.F., an individual afflicted with visual form agnosia, resulting in difficulties perceiving visual objects. In determining the origin of this patient's condition,…

types of neuroimaging systems such as CT Scan, MRI, fMRI. Brains can be divided into four lobes and has different functions. Frontal lobe which is the front part of the brain is related with intelligence, personality, voluntary muscle and emotions. Parietal lobe has the function associated with movement, orientation, attention, and spatial location. Occipital lobe the located in the back part of the skull and functions in a visual processing. Temporal lobe helps in…

telencephalon). The diencephalon structure contains the hypothalamus and thalamus. Which that maintains functions like controlling everyday functioning, relaying information, motor control. The telencephalon maintains the functions such as the cerebral cortex, amygdala, the hippocampus,basal ganglia,and the olfactory…

Cerebral Palsy is commonly referred to as CP. This condition is caused by brain damage. It occurs either before birth, during birth or immediately after birth. Cerebral Palsy affects body movement, muscle control, posture, and balance amongst other things. Cerebral Palsy affects each child differently. Some children may become completely paralyzed whilst others may only be partially paralyzed. This is dependent on when the brain injury had taken place and what type of injury had taken place.…

One important role of the basal ganglia is in the service of voluntary, routine smooth motor control, and to inhibit unnecessary movements in the muscles. The basal ganglia is important for other things as well, but in diseases which cause the loss of muscle control as in the case of Parkinson's, it stands to reason that we look more closely at the basal ganglia in respects to its role in movement. The basal ganglia uses Glutamate, and Acetylcholine, both are excitatory neurotransmitters, and…

Introduction: Head motion is one of the major sources of artifacts in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Head motion is said to cause large spatially varying changes in the signal intensity of the BOLD signal, making it very difficult to separate neuronal activations from the motion artifact. Realignment corrects the changes in brain position, but it does not take into consideration the changes in the image intensity associated with motion. Head Motion, particularly in the direction…

human body wouldn’t be completed. You will learn that the brain is broken into parts, it’s the cerebrum, cerebellum and the brain stem, they all have their job within the brain; the cerebrum breaks up into four parts the Frontal lobe, Temporal lobe, Parietal lobe, and Occipital lobe these lobes have important parts that work with the human body. The brain is vast with knowledge and information, and it’s been said that the human race only uses about ten percent of the brain. The brain…

The cerebral cortex has deep grooves called fissures that separate some regions. The longitudinal fissure separates the left cerebral hemisphere from the right cerebral hemisphere. On the other hand, the transverse cerebral fissure separates the cerebral hemispheres from the cerebellum. The cerebral cortex contains three kinds of functional areas: Motor areas, sensory areas, and association areas. The motor…