Striatum

The central research is how easily accessible pornography is to people anywhere and everywhere. Pornography has effect on teens and adults with their daily social lives. The methods used to analyze the problem are comparing statics from different cites, a personal experience from a dad and son, and the consequences porn has on its viewers. My topic is important because technology is advancing, which means more people can find easier ways to look up pornography. Background and Significance: As…

Relationships are something that everyone forms. It could be between two friends or two people that love each other. They can be romantic or be just be or someone cared about. It can attract all different types of people together. Relationships can have pretty and simple exteriors and can have complex and hard interiors. Everyone's relationships are different in their own way. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet their relationship is love and marriage. They will do anything to be together, even…

Brain Hacking “Is Silicon Valley programing apps or programing people?” (Cooper) The answer to this question posed by Anderson Cooper appears to be the latter, as efforts to thwart high focus on engagement instead of necessity of app use alone is frowned upon by developers. Devices are designed to be addictive and keep us engaged regardless of the unknown impacts they might have on individuals and society. It was studied that people check their phones at least every 15 minutes, even if there…

Introduction During the early stages of foetal development, differentiation of sexual organs begins. When a male foetus is developing, a cascading of genes, beginning with the sex determining gene (the SRY) on the Y-chromosome, causes the foetal gonads to develop; whereas female development depends on an absence of androgens (Bao & Swaab, 2011). Once the process of differentiation of sexual organs is complete, sexual differentiation of the developing brain commences by the permanent organising…

The first Nobel conference event I listened to was the panel discussion. In this discussion, treatment options were explored. Four different speakers were involved, including William Cope Moyers, who is the author of the book Broken that we are reading in class. The first speaker was Anne Fletcher. She shared that of the 22 million people that need treatment, only 10 percent receive treatment. Most people do not need treatment according to her, and most can get better on their own. The severe…

Stanford, and he found that “learning information while multitasking causes the new information to go to the wrong part of the brain. If students study and watch TV at the same time, for example, the information from their schoolwork goes into the striatum, a region specialized for storing new procedures and skills, not facts and ideas.” This contradicts Steven Johnson’s main point that and validates my argument that one must completely engaged with what they are studying to achieve…

For patients with temporal lobe epilepsy there is a high resistant to medication. This leads to a risk of memory impairments and mood disturbances. Long-term this leads to quality of life impairments and an increased risk of death. Due to the resistant to medication surgery is recommended for patients with TLE. Anteromesial temporal lobectomy (AMTL) is the most common surgery for the treatment of patients with TLE. AMTL is performed in both children and adults. AMTL is done in 30-40% of surgery…

The basal ganglia plays a vital role in the way movement happens and when dopamine does not follow the path that it is suppose to, it hinders body movement. Parkinson’s disease is often known as PD and it is a progressive neurological condition, which means the sickness and symptoms get more severe as time goes on (Noble, 2007). Out of all the neurodegenerative disorders, PD is the second most common one (Noble, 2007). It happens amongst 1% of the population older than sixty years. (Samii, 2004)…

The Effect of Stress on the Brain Stress is predominantly a bodily response to an environmental stimulus. Stress responses are an important warning system to indicate approaching danger. For instance, the stress of physical pain is a warning for tissue damage, the stress of hunger warns of impending low blood sugar levels, the emotional stress of loneliness warns of potential vulnerability from predators and a lack of group protection (*) There are many different sources of stress,…

State projection of Layer V of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex (1pt) Layer V projects to the dorsal column nuclei, as well as to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord; and to the striatum and brain stem in general. 15. What is the pathway of the projections of the Secondary Somatosensory Cortex (SII)? (1pts) Projects to the Insula which then projects to amygdala and hippocampus. 16. How the chemicals which released during tissue damage…