Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

ABSTRACT When brain scientist talk about plasticity, they refer to the molding of organs circuit by new experiences building new writing patterns, pruning others. Brain plasticity or neural adaptation or neuro-plasticity is the ability of the CNS to change & adapt in response to environmental cues, experience, behaviour, injury or disease. Neuroplasticity is assumed to be one of the essential characteristics of the nervous tissue which may be manifested comparatively rapidly and result in…

#2 Describe in detail the structure and function of any of the following: the nervous system, the brain, the endocrine system. Include charts with you description if you desire. Simple moments, decisions or reactions all have one thing in common, the brain. The brain is the control center for human’s entire body, giving signals at all times on what to do or how to respond. Nerves that connect your body to the brain are responsible for gather information to give to the spinal cord to give to…

Analysis of “My Stroke of Insight” The Ted talk “My Stroke of Insight” given by a Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, is about how humans have a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere and how humans have different perceptions of themselves because of it. In the right hemisphere people tend to think that they are “energy-beings connected to one another through the consciousness of our right hemispheres as one human family.” People who tend to think with their left hemisphere are responsible for…

The human brain can be modelled as a matrix of dots. Each dot's color can be flipped to opposite colors. When a baby is born, it's brain matrix consists of a very low m x n dots. As the baby grew, the number of m and n changes (usually both increases in magnitude). The magnitude of m and n are not necessarily the same, as both number defines the capacity of an individual's brain. The larger the product of m and n, the bigger the capacity to think. Capacity of the human brain can be narrowed…

The neocortex is a part of the cerebral cortex in mammals, involved with higher evolved functions. In humans, the neocortex possesses abilities such as sensory perception, reasoning, language and motor skills. According to lab article, Preferential electrical coupling regulates neocortical lineage-dependent microcircuit assembly, the evidence support the main hypothesis in that electrical coupling between sister excitatory neurons regulate the formation of specific synapses in a developing…

How the Brain works... Have you ever wondered what an individual’s brain works before they begin to abuse different substances? The Brain is an organ in the body that is capable of many, many things in all reality the brain controls your every movement thought and everything that you do in life. You can’t even do a simple task without your brain telling you how to do it, things even such as breathing. Then to think how all of this can change just by deciding to abuse drugs or alcohol. It…

information of all these clips, a data bank was created. Thus, when a subject watched a short video clip, the brain activity at the visual cortex was analyzed by the machine and an average image appeared on the computer screen. The odds of this happening by chance are zero percent. Thus the conclusion was made that certain, detailed areas of the primary visual cortex are excited when a specific detection of motion and image is made (1). The movies were shown and the computer could see what the…

Overall, from examining the brain from a three-dimensional stand point, I have learned a plethora of information to help me better understand the different capabilities my own brain has. Beginning with the cerebrum, I learned that this area mostly controls posture, balance, and coordination primarily in already learned, physical skills. A great example for better understanding of this area would be learning a dance. At first, one will not be capable of having the proper posture with each move,…

As neuroscience research progresses, the concept of the mind becomes of critical importance. The mind is usually considered to be a separate, nonmaterial entity compared to the physical neurons within the brain. However, the field of neuroscience is finding many connections between the physical nature of the brain and the supposed non-physical aspect of the human mind. In a sense, neuroscience seeks to understand the functioning of the mind in terms of the physical neuronal firings of the brain.…

stage is Memory Storage. In the 1950’s and 1960’s Karl Lashley and Wilder Penfield looked in to long term memories and where they are stored. Long term memories are not stored in just one part of the brain but are widely distributed throughout the cortex. Long term memories are stored throughout the brain as groups of neurons are cells within the nervous system that transmit information to other nerve cells, muscles or gland cells. Most neurons gave a cell body, an axon and dendrites.…