Category: Brain

Common sense organs are used by human beings to understand what is happening around them through smell, touch, taste, vision and hearing. Information and data from sensory organs are used by brains to respond and behave accordingly. According to Kirby and Goodpaster (2007), brain cannot process anything unless it is sensed. People rely on senses…

Table of Contents Introduction Amygdala Insular Cortex Hypothalamus Conclusion References Introduction Understanding the nature of emotions as the factors that serve not only to represent a response to a specific stimulus but also as the means of gauging an individuals psychological well-being is central to modern psychology. Remarkably, despite being an intuitively understandable concept, the…

Color Vision and Evolution While color vision is taken for granted in everyday life, it, in fact, served a crucial role in the progress of the humankind at the dawn of its development. As predators, our ancestors needed color vision to detect and identify various objects, including prey. Therefore, it was crucial for people at…

My ideas about an adolescents brain have changed greatly over the last 15 to 20 years, as far as growth and development are concerned. In this case, I have come to understand that there are various explanations for an adolescents behavior. It is because I used to think that adolescents are weird people, and it…

Table of Contents Featured Function One: Hemispheric Specialization of the Brain Featured Function Two: Learning and Motor Control Featured Function Three: Visual Illusion and Selective Attention Featured Function Four: Amnesia and Press Characterization Featured Function Five: Theory of Mind and Consciousness Featured Function Six: Brain Plasticity Across the Lifespan Works Cited Featured Function One: Hemispheric…

Social System: Cheryls Brain Injury Case Cheryl grew up in Idaho, where she went to school and interacted with many people, including her large family. After the basic military training, she was deployed to Iraq and returned home with lots of fractures and brain injury. This situation changed her life greatly; she spent three weeks…

Having read and viewed the resources on the adolescent brain and the adolescent transition years, what ideas and theories leapt out at you? Did some ideas and theories connect with your own teenage experience? Were you surprised by others? Why did those particular concepts stand out? The first idea about the study of the teenage…

Table of Contents Abstract Current Event Original Work References Abstract Recently Art Kramer conducted research devoted to the connection between the childs brain and physical development. The researchers found out that children who are in a good physical state have more than 10% bigger hippocampal volume than those who are not fit. They underlined that…

Explain how psychoactive drugs exert their effect on the brain The ability of psychoactive drugs to alter consciousness is connected to their impact on the brain cells activity and on the work of neurotransmitters namely (Coon, 2005). Neurotransmitters can be defined as the chemicals that carry messages between brain cells (Coon, 2005, p. 238). Psychoactive…

It is worth noting that over the past 20 years, new technologies in transport, medicine, and electronics caused large changes in the life and habits of people. In general, life expectancy has increased, and means such as telecommunications and the Internet have provided a large amount of information that is available almost everywhere. Therefore, it…