Superior temporal gyrus

Schizophrenia Assignment This essay will be focused on a mental illness known as Schizophrenia, which Jonathon is experiencing in the Case Study. It will outline its symptoms, the brain structures of Schizophrenic patients, how neurochemistry may be a possible causative factor in it and how medication can affect the brain structure and neurochemistry to manage symptoms in diagnoses of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a serious chronic mental disorder which is described chiefly by defalcation in…

In Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion, Blood and Zatorre used positron emission tomography to study the neural mechanisms. Results involved changes in heart rate, electromyogram, and respiration. Increase and decrease were detected in the brain regions involving in reward, motivation, emotion, and arousal. Similarly Alluri and colleagues in From Vivaldi to Beatles and back, predicts the brain activity in music…

The areas of the brain thought to make up the MNS are up for debate, but the areas supported by the current research are the inferior frontal gyrus pars opercularis in the prefrontal cortex, the ventral pre-motor cortex, the inferior parietal lobe, and the superior temporal sulcus between the superior and middle temporal gyri. The inferior frontal gyrus is thought to be involeved in inhibition of action and risk aversion (Archibald, 2006). The ventral premotor cortex is part of the Brodmann area…

(e.g., phobias, supernatural and conspiracies theories) have less brain activity in comparison sceptics. “In the supernatural believers, much less activity was seen in the right inferior temporal gyrus when compared to sceptics.”(Burnett, 2016, p.85)Brugger, Dowdy, and Graves (1994) suggest that the medial temporal lobe and the hippocampus are implicated in belief in superstitions. However, the author acknowledges that fear can be a positive thing. For some people, fear is associated with…

For a few years all researches have been agreed that the behavior and the human mind, in normal and pathological conditions, are directly related to the function of nervous system. Also psychiatric disorders of affective or cognitive origin are interpreted as the consequence of a particular pathology of the nervous system. Therefore, neuroscience involves all the different branches of psychology that have the suffix “psych”, as for example psychology, psychiatry, psychopathology. All these…

Until the age of five, I was only exposed to the Spanish language, but when I started school, I quickly learned how to read, write, and speak English. When my mother gave birth to my younger brother, doctors advised us, as a bilingual household, to teach him one language at a time to avoid confusion. It would be interesting to examine this advice with a deeper understanding of language and its manifestation in our brains. Introduction: Language in the Brain The understanding of language has…

Discuss the use of brain imaging technology in investigating the relationship between biology and behaviour The function of this paper is to review, in an unbiased way of brain imaging technologies in investigating the relationship between biology and behaviour. Brain imaging technologies, with their advantages and disadvantages: PET scan/Positron Emission Tomography scan What it is: A PET scan, or Positron Emission Tomography scan is a scan that detects positrons that are emitted from…

Most people know Mozart as a great composer, who was involved with music from a very young age. Not only was he able to compose and play music at a very young age, his music was well-known and people asked him to compose pieces for specific events. His music was special and left people wanting to hear more. Throughout his short lifetime, he was able to compose a multitude of magnificent pieces that are still in use today. Not only is his music still in use today, but it also has a special…

the temporal cortex, while the dorsal stream runs along the occipital cortex to the parietal cortex. The cells in the inferior temporal cortex respond to objects. It allows the brain to identify certain objects. When this area is damaged there is an inability to recognize objects, also known as visual agnosia. Someone with visual agnosia may be able to describe and object and even point it out, but would not be able to tell you what that object is. The fusiform gyrus in the inferior temporal…

A Lack of Empathy: Antisocial Personality Disorder When you hear the word antisocial it brings to mind someone who is a shut in, who doesn’t get out much. However, when it comes to Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) it’s not just about not socializing. Antisocial Personality Disorder refers to a disorder that disregards social norms, those with Antisocial personality disorder will disregard laws or anything else that gets in the way of their immediate goals. Individuals with ASPD tend to…