Temporal lobe

Naeglaria Fowleri is only able to infect individuals through entering the navel passages, from here they attach to the nasal mucosa, which allows the amoeba to travel through cribriform plate using the olfactory nerves, resulting in access to the frontal lobe. The result of which is a sudden onset of bi-frontal or…

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is the inability to recognize faces (Biotti & Cook, 2016). DP can affect one in every 50 individuals, both men and women (Biotti & Cook, 2016). DP is caused in the temporal lobe in a specific area known as the fusiform face area. The fusiform face area is the ability for an individual’s brain to be able to help recognize different faces (Biotti & Cook, 2016). One thing that is interesting about this topic is, a person with DP is not able to recognize faces but…

Nicholson’s Nihilism Partly because I’m a Batman enthusiast, I noticed, from early on in this film, that a nexus existed between Nicholson’s role as J.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and his later casting as the joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. In this film’s early development, we learned of McMurphy’s past: five arrests for assault and his most recent arrest for statutory rape – how joker-esque! And only an upstanding joker would find a mental institution more appealing than…

the amount of grey matter found in different lobes of the brain. The results from this study show that the individuals with lower family incomes had significant delays in the development of certain lobes of the brain compared to other participants of the same sex and age that were of a higher socioeconomic status. There were also structural differences between low and high SES participants in areas such as the hippocampus and the frontal and temporal lobes, which are all associated…

The theory of flashbulb memory was suggested in 1977 by Brown and Kulik, and is described as a “special type of emotional memory which refers to vivid and detailed memories of highly emotional events, that appear to be recorded in the brain as though with the help of a camera’s flash” (Crane and Hannibal). Brown and Kulik suggested that there may be “a special neural mechanism that triggers an emotional arousal because the event is unexpected or extremely important”. There have been many studies…

Cardiovascular diseases are conditions that pertain to the heart and blood vessels that interfere with the normal functions of the body. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. The heart then acts as a pump and provides blood to all parts throughout the body. Occlusion due to plaque buildup interferes with blood flow. The arteries begin to narrow and blood flow is restricted to the brain. Brain cells are deprived of oxygen and begin to die resulting in a cerebrovascular…

heal completely but will cause permanent damage to the prefrontal cognitive control-network. CTE is also associated with frontotemporal dementia. According to the Mayo Clinic, frontotemporal dementia is progressive nerve loss in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Language is effected in people with frontotemporal dementia (Staff, 2016). Common language disorders seen in those with CTE are dysarthria and dysphasia. Dysarthria is the difficult or unclean articulation of speech that would…

The near death experience was first defined to be a spur of consciousness leading to an altered-reality experience on random individuals who reach the state of clinical death by a lack of oxygen to the brain that implies complete unconsciousness on those individuals (Khanna & Greyson, 2014, p. 1605). Near death experience recounts highlight similarities among those who experience them. Characteristics such as out of body experiences, diving into darkness to then transport into a light-filled…

The cognitive level of analysis is basically the way psychology study the way the brain processes cognitive mechanisms, such as perception, thinking, problem solving, memory, language and attention. Cognition refers to the mental representation of the world of and individual, the way it receives and processes the information. Cognitive processes such as emotions have been studied in terms of cognitive and biological factors. On the other hand, physiology is know for being the biological…

the flanker test. All of these wide-ranging examinations indicated a statistically significant advantage in favor of bilinguals. Of particular importance in her study was the effect bilingualism had on a specific part of the brain, the medial temporal lobe, in which Bialystok examined multilingual and monolingual ability in Alzheimer 's patients. The multilingual group contained a higher average of disease severity compared to the monolingual class, but surprisingly maintained higher cognitive…