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    I selected the research article titled “Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory,” since it provided answers to my questions about Alzheimer’s disease. This article discusses the idea that as people age, the part of the brain that is responsible for forming, organizing, and storing our memories called the hippocampus, shrinks and deteriorates. As a result, people are susceptible to developing Dementia, which causes episodes of forgetfulness. Alzheimer’s disease is one…

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    Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21)

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    Our interest in the topic of Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) started when we heard about how many people are affected by this disease. The number of people affected by this disease in the United States alone is around 400,000 people. This genetic disorder is caused when a person is born with an extra copy of chromosome twenty-one. Down syndrome is recognized by things such as short stature, a distinctive palm crease, stubby fingers, mental retardation that can end up being serious, a wide gap between…

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    learn with it than without it. Testing whether there is a causal relationship; as in can performance be better with or without a musical component of a certain genre, is valuable information for studying techniques and how music is processed in the brain in relation to spatial tasks and reasoning skills. The researchers hypothesize that music can develop “inherent firing patterns, along with associated behaviors which are relevant to spatial reasoning,” basically, if music and higher cognitive…

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    Essay On Prosopagnosia

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    these individuals from those with normal levels of processing. In the case of visual recognition, we can look at different forms of visual agnosias in order to tell us about how these recognition processes work, as well as whether there are specific brain areas where it occurs. Visual object agnosia refers to a deficit in one’s ability to recognise visually presented objects, regardless of whether they are familiar or novel. Prosopagnosia is similar, however refers to the deficit in ones ability…

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    I will also argue that Chisholm’s version of indeterminism does a better job at presenting indeterminism as it presents the human brain as a sort of ground zero for events, they originate there and not from some outside…

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    Website #1: Mayo Clinic Brief Review of Contents/Summary Mayo Clinic’s website provides a user-friendly and accessible interface for those seeking answers concerning their mental health (Mayo). In addition to holding a large array of information, information is presented in a variety of modes (Mayo). For instance, the dashboard on the main page houses several dropdown menus directing one to a surplus of links such as, “Patient Care” and “Health Info,” ‘Education, “and “Departments and…

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    looking at new methods of therapy that focuses on the “normalizing” (Shepard) children’s movement. Since the 1980s, there have been new ways of rehabilitation once discovering acute lesions of the brain. One of them being new ways of imaging the brain. This method studies all kinds of aspects of a child’s brain. For instance it detects “self-initiated activity, developing methods on exploratory, and self-initiated movements”.…

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    Cognitive psychology is the study of your brain and your mental process. One of the mental processes that are staged in cognitive psychology is your memory. The theoretical basis of my study was schema. Schema in psychology describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. Schema however is also part of the cognitive part of psychology. A Schema ‘theory’ basically states that everything you know is organized into units. Schema…

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    hear a stick crack. You look cautiously around for the hazard, but you see no one. Your heart starts racing. You begin to sweat. Your mouth dries and you feel butterflies in your stomach. Your hair stands on end. You feel a surge of energy and in a split second you find yourself running away from the noise. Whether you’re aware of it or not, your body just went through a response known as the fight or flight response also known as the acute stress response. The fight or flight response evolved…

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    Distortion Of Memory

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    4 remembered meeting Bugs Bunny. This shows the unreliability of memory as Bugs Bunny isn't a disney character so it is impossible for them to of met him. This is because of the ripple effect where if they saw Bugs Bunny and Mickey together their brain would add create memories of them seeing Bugs Bunny at disney. Age does influence memory as when we have gaps in our memory and we have an answer, we will fill those answers into our…

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