Split-brain

The human brain is the control center of the body. It is split into many different parts, each with their own distinct function. Some parts of the brain complement and assist the other parts in their tasks. The brain, while being vital to the proper functioning of animals, is quite frail, and even a small amount of damage can seriously impair it from working normally. Any part of the brain can be damaged, and depending on the location of the damage and its severity, the effects will vary.…

At a first glance, hemispheres look like mirror images (identical). However, science has been proving since 1968 effectively through examinations of positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG) and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), the existence of anatomical asymmetries, neurochemical and functional, thereby designating the hemispheric specializations. Paul Broca (1860), through work and biopsies found that the language…

of the changes that may occur in a person who has suffered damage in a region of their brain. The arear of the brain to be discussed is the Corpus Callosum, with references to Sperry’s split Brain research. The brain is the control centre for the body at the top of the spinal cord. The brain has three main parts, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum which has two parts, the left and right hemispheres and the brain stem. The corpus callosum is a thick band of nerve fibres that divides the cerebrum…

The human brain is a smart and complex part of the body that controls when we breathe, eat, and sleep. It is so complex that doctors and scientists are still learning about the brain to this day. Not only does it control bodily functions, but it also operates as a mental compass that controls emotions and deciphers between right and wrong. Unlike other body parts, the brain is able to be conditioned and developed from outside sources, like parents teaching young children moral values. In…

and pain in his neck from the noose, but his brain even though it can’t explain the pain in his hallucination attempt to ignore it and justify it as soreness from the rope breaking. Then just a few lines later he does a similar thing with his tong. “His tongue was swollen with thirst; he relived its fever by thrusting it forward from between his teeth into the cold air.” (Bierce) This show the reader that the author is showing the strength of the brain even when multiple information sources…

The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system for most living things. There are only a few animals that do not have a brain like starfish or jellyfish. The brain is located in the head. It receives messages from other organs. The brain is the most complex organ. In a human, the cerebral cortex has more than a billion neurons. Each of these neurons are connected by synapses. These synapses are connected to several thousand other neurons. Neurons communicate with one…

proper attention is necessary for the indoctrination of information into areas of the brain focused on long-term memory retention (Frith, Frackowiak, Dolan, Fletcher, Grasby, & Shallice, 1994). When observed during an attention divide between two stimuli people presented with less activity in their lower left frontal lobe which is normally responsible for receiving and translating linguistic information in the brain (Frith et al., 1994). Therefore, the dividing of attention between lecture…

1. Connect the concepts presented in the video to course concepts. After watching the video episode of The Secret Life of the Brain, the course concept that comes to mind are the Frontal lobe (Prefrontal cortex) of the brain and the amygdala. First, when watching the video episode, the episode discussed how the frontal lobe entitles how the brain helps humans to engage with each other and our environment. However, the frontal lobe becomes a contributing factor of how the psychological disorder…

In an article written by Alan Kingstone, Chris Friesen, and Michael Gazzaniga they are discussing a study about gaze reflection and reflexive joint attention. They used two similar people to conduct multiple experiments to test out their hypothesis. In the article, Reflexive Joint Attention Depends on Lateralized Cortical Connections, their hypothesis was that the reflexive attention in response to gaze direction correlates with the hemisphere specialized for processing faces. The people used…

dichotomy in science between the mind and the brain. It is a dualism of psychology and biology, where the fascinating components of life come together, to create a consciousness. Comparable to the symbiosis of a plant and its fungi, the mind and brain are integral parts of each other. Finding answers to the mysterious of the human brain is a captivating thought. It is this desire that drives my goal to understand the medical science behind the human brain, and treat its problems. It 's exciting…