Prefrontal damage also encourages risk-taking, irresponsibility, rule breaking, emotional and…
Inside of your brain there are two sea monsters, one on each side. The proper name for these sea monsters are called the Hippo Campus, or Hippo Campi when referring to both. This The Hippo Campi control new memories and regulate mood. It is the first responder to new memories, and in grabbing learned memories. That’s the why you need to protect this part of your brain, because until you reach age twenty-one, it doesn’t stop growing, and the rest of your brain will finish growing and developing around twenty-five.…
Teens with depression tend to engage in imprudent behavior which can be detrimental to their health. As previously mentioned the University of Texas did a study of Thirtytwo teens, 19 of whom were maltreated as children, the study also found that four of the maltreated teens and one of the control teens had developed substance abuse issues. The same study by the University of Wisconsin also found connectivity problems with the teens superior longitudinal fasciculus( SLF) and the right cingulum-hippocampus projection(CGH-R). The superior longitudinal fasciculus is used in planning behavior and language processing. The cingulum-hippocampus is linked to emotional processing and abstract thought.…
The frontal lobe is often the area of the brain that is damaged in motor vehicle accidents as well as sports accidents as it is placed in the front of the skull, an area that could be damaged due to its location. For example, in a motor vehicle accident if the head were to hit the windshield it would be the frontal lobe that hit first. The frontal lobe is responsible for multiple functions of the body such as emotions, motor capabilities and cognitive impairments meaning that if it is injured those areas of a person will be affected. First, the emotions or neurobehavior of a person may be affected in ways such as being over- emotional, having a flat affect (emotionless), mood swings and alexithymia, which is the inability to understand the emotions in others. For example if a person had alexithymia they would not be able to tell that when a person was smiling that they were happy.…
Dolegui Wilfried Nanfack PHIL 2101-(ET6) For this paper, I’ll be talking about Descartes’s argument for dualism in the “sixth Meditation” and “multiple personalities”. Descartes, both as a philosopher and scientist, is at two levels of understanding of the real. It’s back to nature in a mechanistic framework to which the body is subjected, and at the same time, it supports a dualism of soul and body in which the soul escapes the body determinations. In his sixth Meditation the author methodically describes the characters that are unique to the soul and the body and raises the contradictions that result from their union. In addition, it plays a fundamental role in the game of passion that bases all of his moral theory.…
Levitin explains, “There's a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, that evolved over tens of thousands of years, to keep track of the locations of important things -- where the well is, where fish can be found, that stand of fruit trees, where the friendly and enemy tribes live. The hippocampus is the part of the brain that in London taxicab drivers becomes enlarged. It's the part of the brain that allows squirrels to find their nuts.” This explains how not only humans but animals have hippocampus in our brain and how to use it properly. During stressful situations people tend to lose thing easily, thinking ahead of time and remembering where those thing go is a much more convenient…
The areas included are the hippocampus which regulates emotions, and is associated with long term memory, and the amygdala which is responsible for emotions and memory. “Damage to the amygdala…
My best friends invite me over for pizza and a friendly game of cards. As I am enjoying my evening eating pizza, socializing, and playing cards, certain parts of my brain are involved which allow me to perform properly. The limbic system comprises of the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, and the cingulate cortex. In general, the limbic system is involved in emotions, motivation, memory, and learning.…
In recent years, the consequences of repeated head injuries and concussions suffered by athletes have been propelled into notoriety. High profile cases of suicide, domestic abuse, and disease diagnoses in athletes, have prompted increased research into the phenomenon and preventative measures to reduce head injuries to be implemented (Remington, 2014). According to Guskiewics and his colleagues (2005), repeated concussions is linked to diseases such as early-onset Dementia, Alzheimers, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and most notably, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopothy (CTE). Although cases of these diseases are more prevalent in sports such as professional football, boxing and BMX, perhaps the most high profile case is that…
Prefrontal Cortex damage can cause disinhibition, such that the behavior of a subject is guided by previously acquired responses. These responses are usually inappropriate to the current situation. (Price). Pathological disturbances of mood may follow a bipolar course, in with normal moods alternate with both depression and mania. (Price).…
The hippocampus is also responsible in regulating the stress response when a threat is no longer present, or when a stress episode is over.…
Depression generally takes a toll on the limbic system and the function of neurotransmitters and neurons. The limbic system regulates activities like emotion, physical and a sexual drive, as well as this the stress response is also influenced. Because of the effect depression has on the brain, it affects the entire body. Serotonin, a neurotransmitter, can alter the pain threshold, making it increasingly more sensitive. Serotonin can also affect sleep and the sex drive.…
”Grey matter contains most of the brain's neurons, and it plays an important role in emotions, memory, decision-making, and self-control”(Kennedy 1). When establishing thoughts and emotions, neurons play a role alongside the hippocampus. The development of neural connections is greatest during childhood and in adolescents. Different parts of the brain develop at different rates, some fast,…
Corpus callosum is also responsible for learning and memory. The Amygdala area of the brain could have been negatively impacted by the trauma of the abuse resulting in the child…
Bullying primarily affects the CNS (central nervous system) and PNS (peripheral nervous system) of an individual which activates the hormonal glands. Therefore it will start to secrete certain stress hormones in adequate amount that will have negative effect on behaviour of the child. Mental and physical stressors, for example, being the objective of tormenting, actuate the anxiety framework focused on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) hub (Dallman et al., 2003; McEwen and McEwen, 2015). The part of HPA and different hormones is to advance adjustment and survival, however constantly raised hormones can likewise cause issues. Stress effects affects physiology and the mind, changes levels of numerous hormones and different biomarkers,…