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interested about the study to explain how abandonment of child hood affects the brain. I am surprised about the using rats and monkeys in order to study the research. I agree with using monkeys for the study because a structure of a body and the brain of the monkey are similar to human 's. However, rat is not similar to human. I think rat is too small for comparing to human. I have no idea why rat is used to explain to neglect as a child affects the human’s brain. It was interesting for me, and…

coccobacillus called Yersinia Pestis, which slumbered for centuries in the blood of rats underwent a deadly exodus. The rats were immune to the bacteria in their bloodstream, but not the fleas that fed on their blood. A toxin produced by Yersinia Pestis blocked the abdomen of the flea thus inhibiting it from swallowing the blood it sucked out of the rat. Then, when a flea bit a human, it would deposit the blood from the rat infected with the bacteria into the human’s blood stream. The first…

experimentation, there are also disadvantages which include, there is no benefit for the humans, it is cruel, and is dangerous for humans to be treated only after a trial on animals. The first advantage to animal experimentation is using animals like rats can help the scientist gain better knowledge for different…

such as in the movie Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind when Clementine said, “Nothing makes any sense to me! NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!” This was tested when a scientist played a tone for a rat before it was shocked. On an episode from the scientific podcast Radiolab titled "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat" Jad Abumrad said, “The moment it hears the tone and feels the shock, inside its head, a bunch of neurons start to build. Whenever you create a memory, it 's an active cellular…

piece of fiction, there is a lot of nonfiction elements to it. There is a lot of emotion from the soldiers during and after the war. Whether the events in which the characters in the book are real or not, they all were changed after the Vietnam war. Rat Kiley, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, and Norman Bowker experienced events in the Vietnam war that caused them to change. The combination of society rejecting them, their families not understanding them, and the government ignoring them, caused most of…

Recollecting the rats with steel jaws, the reader is intended to reach the determination that the canine, or nature, turns out to be effectively and promptly dispensable in a world with uncontrolled technological progression (Bradbury, pg 20-27). The story enables us to…

“The Habit Loop” by Charles Duhigg Explains the reasoning behind habits and why and how they work. ….. Talks about a man named Henry Molaison, who is suffering from viral encephalitis, which was eating away Henry’s brain structure, doctors were unsure if Henry would recover from the disease. Henry was given large doses if antiviral drugs, which fought the disease gradually and would soon make the virus disappear. Scans found that the disease had made some parts of his brain unresponsive. Henry’s…

result which is an impressive thing to have during the war. Throughout the novel we see soldiers reverting to childhood ways and games when they are in times of extremeness. We learn about people and how their lives get tangled in knots via the war. Rat Kiley, Norman Bowker, Tim O’Brien, and many others learned about their inner yo-yo’s throughout the novel and wrestled with the knots inside of them. For some, it is a simple untangle and they continue on with the up and down movement of their…

Chronic depression, also referred to as dysthymia or chronic depression is a mood disorder. Chronic depression is defined any feelings of hopelessness and unhappiness that persists for more than two weeks, and it is different from psychotic depression. With psychotic depression, the illness is accompanied by some form of psychosis, such as delusions, detachment from reality, and hallucinations. In addition to emotional disturbances, chronic depression is also like to sensory disturbances, such…

At first, Watson introduced objects that Baby Albert was not afraid of, that he liked. There was a monkey, a dog, a rabbit and a white rat. Albert seem to really like t he white rat. After Watson started the conditioning. Each time Albert reached for the rat, a loud bar was struck and startled him. After awhile he learned to fear the rat, the other animals and objects. What long term effect that particular experiment had on Albert is uncertain. It seems that he died at the…