Prefrontal cortex

It’s hard not to see that Will has had an extremely difficult life. Will was not only the victim of child abuse from his father but was also faced abuse in the multiple foster homes he lived in. Research has shown that children who experience child abuse are six times as likely to experience post traumatic stress disorder (Lamont, 2016). The chances of Will developing post traumatic stress disorder seems high and it is made even more likely because Will not only experience physical abuse from…

shown that the majority of the brain is matured when a person is 18 years of age. According to Laurence Steinberg, by the time a person is 16, the obligatory parts of the brain needed for logical reasoning are matured (Steinberg 236). Also, the prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain that controls decision making, expression, and multiple other significant skills necessary for an adult. The maturity of this fraction of the brain at age 18 is definitely enough for a person to be able to make…

Since multitasking is here to stay, there are a couple suggestions on how to be able to manage multitasking and use of technology. One of the ways is to work on a single task before moving on. The reason being, when we are assigned a task, the prefrontal cortex of the brain takes control and assigns different parts of the brain to handle them, (Shao & Shao, 2012,p.77). By being focused on one, we ensure the fact that task will get completed. Think of a To Do List. How many times did it seem…

Voyeurism in The Mind of a Potential Serial Killer Ted Bundy, probably one of the most famous of serial killers, can be accredited with the reasoning for this research. Bundy is on record, saying, “…I’ve lived in prison for a long time now, and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence… without exception, every one of them was deeply involved with pornography; without question, without exception, deeply influenced and consumed by an addiction to pornography.” Voyeurism and…

During the evaluation of four articles that focus on self-regulation, anxiety, and fear effecting consciousness and moral responsibility, the different author’s present their arguments and views on how these emotional capacities and the ability to obtain self-regulation affect the decision making of an agent and whether or not they should be held fully morally responsible for their actions and decisions. In this paper, I will be explicating three different views on the capacities of…

important information, calculating the best action, and presenting it to you. The hang-ups primarily come when we are forced to question ourselves (Gladwell, 2005). Thin-slicing is built off of previously observed patterns, but life doesn’t always prescribe to our preconceived ideas of how a situation should play out. This creates what’s known as the Warren-Harding Error. The Warren-Harding Error is named after the president, who “most historians agree, [was] one of the worst presidents in…

individuals develop a propensity to become antisocial. This evident where in the article where Bechara & Damasio (2002) stated, “Therefore, our findings suggest that the defective neural mechanism of decision-making associated with a malfunctioning VM cortex is one phenotype of the personality traits of ASPD.” As a substance dependent individual finds themselves tethered to their addiction…

Every day patients rush into the emergency room due to various medical reasons. Some may have just experienced a severe car accident while others may be facing a battle with cancer. Whatever the case may be, if the patient is a competent adult, then he or she is legally and ethically empowered to make health care decisions for themselves. However, this is not the circumstance for adolescents, who range from ages 10 to 19.¬1 Since most people base their decisions on values, personal experiences,…

an adult. High levels of MAOA alone do not predispose a person to aggression, but social and physical abuse trigger the MAOA gene leading to the aggressive and antisocial tendencies. Neurological imaging of Joel Rifkin’s brain showed little prefrontal cortex activity and poor symmetry. Originally Rifkin appeared to be functioning normal with an average to superior IQ and an MRI that appeared structurally…

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 system, and the still developing prefrontal cortex. Teens do not need more than two hours a day of screentime. Raising the recommended daily time of two hours to four hours would only make the effects worse on teens. The American Academy of Pediatrics…