Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Some people rely on it for almost everything, including studying. Does it really help, or is it just an excuse to listen to your new favorite hits? Music, everyone listens to it at one point or another whether it’s classical, country, rock, or any other genre, is it really helping, or is it hurting you? Music has helped alzheimer’s patients in the past, so can it help students with healthy brain activity to study? Using music in classrooms is a controversy to say the least, but one…

Do we really use only 10% of our brain capacity to function in everyday life? It really depends on self opinion. Some of us may think we use more of our brain when we are working and some of us may think that when we are relaxing our brains are relaxing as well. There is no scientific theory behind how much we use of our brain. Most of us use our brains daily, to think, to react, to sense feelings, etc. You may be surprised on how much we use our brains each day. Its always active, axons are…

Central nervous system disease that cause vertigo include disease of the brainstem. vascular nervous system causes malformations, tumor of the brainstem and cerebellum ,multiple sclerosis, , vertebrobasilar migraine. Vertigo of central origin often becomes disabling. The associated nystagmus is often non fatigable, the orientation of this type of vertigo is vertical rather than horizontal, without latency, and unsuppressed by visual fixation. ENG is useful in documenting these characteristics.…

Are Teens More Rational Than Adults? The human brain is a complex organ that serves as the center of the nervous system. It is made up of over 100 billion nerves that (with the cortex and other parts of the brain) help communicate throughout the body. By sending signals to different parts of your body, the brain communicates and is the main control centre.”Grey matter contains most of the brain's neurons, and it plays an important role in emotions, memory, decision-making, and…

We are all born with many things we take for granted. Properly developed brains, facial features in their correct places, and a life span longer than a few hours. Some children who are born with holoprosencephaly, or HPE, aren't quite as lucky. Victims of this disease suffer with various abnormalities to the face and brain, sometimes resulting in death. Their symptoms can range from almost normal facial features and brain development, to something most of us thought only occurred in fictional…

Bats are associated with the phrase, “Guardians of the Night” yet have horrible eyesight in the evening. To navigate after dark, bats use echolocation. Echolocation is the act of using the reverberation of a sound transmitted out of the body to detect objects in the surrounding area. Scientist for many years believed animals only had this ability. Due to human brains tending to suppress the frequency of echoes. This capability to retrieve the echo of a sound one transmitted has been perceived to…

simple things like breathing. The brain is supplied with oxygen to keep it alive by a network of blood vessels. Structure of the brain The brain is made up of 4 main parts and they are: ● The cerebral cortex, ● Limbic system, ● The cerebellum ● and the brain stem The cerebral cortex The cerebral cortex is split into two cerebral hemispheres (the left and right hemispheres). Sometimes…

Predictive validity is the ability to measure something to predict a specific variable in the future. For example, the SAT use predictive validity to predict how well a high school student will do in college. This related to the result of the written exam because predictive validity measures the connection between the score of a test and the target behavior. So if the test result of the written exam is high, the correlation between the score and the targeted behavior will have a high predictive…

regions of the amygdala are part of the cortex. Furthermore, the CEA projects to visceral centers in the brainstem. Also, the extended cortical division of amygdala contains the cortical amygdalar nucleus (COA) - accessary olfactory bulb input as well as the rest of the COA, the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract (NLOT), and the areas of main olfactory bulb input. Moreover, the lateral nucleus amygdala and basolateral nucleus amygdala form a ventromedial extension of the claustrum for large…

Reduced prefrontal cortical gray matter value in young adults exposed to corporal punishment is a study done by Akemi Tomoda, Hanako Suzuki, Karen Rabi, Yi-Shin She, Ann Polcari, and Martin H. Teicher. This study was published in March 2009 and had the objective to see how harsh corporal punishment during a persons childhood changes the brain structure and specifically the amount of gray matter volume. They clearly drew guidelines on the differences between harsh corporal punishment (HCP) and…