Brain Examination Method: A Summary And Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the correlational method as a means for examining the relationship between functions of the left and right hemispheres. I will compare the performance of people with intact brains with the performance of so-called split-brain patients. In many ways, the brains of these two groups are very similar. 1a. The brain stem is found in the deepest part of the brain. The brainstem controls the automatic survival functions of the body, such as breathing. There are no differences between the function of the normal brainstem and the brain of a split brain patient. The brainstem will still supply the automatic survival functions of the body. 1b. The hippocampus is found in the limbic system along with the amygdala, the hypothalamus. The hippocampus is in charge of allowing the body to process information into memories. Without the hippocampus, there is no way for new memories to be created. There is no anatomical difference between the hippocampus in the normal brain and a split brain. 1c. The corpus callosum is found in the center of the brain. The role it plays as a part of the brain is it connects both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, allowing them to work and interact together as a whole system. The difference between the anatomy of the corpus callosum in a split brain patient versus someone without a

Imagine a football player is tackled and hits the back of his head. As a result, his brain has hit the back of the cranium, then the front.

The brain is one of the most complex organ in our bodies. To learn about the brain scientists use electrical stimulation. Electrical stimulation is the use of electrical probes to determine functions of the brain. Clinical observation of patients have also helped scientists learn more about the brain. Case studies of different patients such as Phineas Gage have helped to learn about the different functions of the brain and how they work together to perform complex activities. (Barron’s AP Psychology 6th Edition)

Damage to the hippocampus and related medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures leads to memory deficits in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) [1]. The human medial temporal lobe is composed of the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the parahippocampal region. The entorhinal cortex (EC) is an important structure in the parahippocampal region. Volumetric MRI has previously been used to assess damage in the hippocampus, amygdala, and parahippocampal region in patients with MTLE [2.3.4]. MRI can reveal disease progression, identify seizure foci, and assist the diagnosis of MTLE. Volumetric MRI has also been used to investigate the relationship between hippocampal volumes and clinical neuropsychological memory test data [5]. Patients with

There are many neurological diseases and the way the “regular checkup” goes will be determined by the type of disease they have. For instance a patient with a nonfatal diagnosis of Multiple sclerosis can have a neurological checkup; the physician should recap the patients’ health history and determine what brought them in. Ask if anything has changed since the last checkup. Assess mental status, obtain vital signs and ask if patient is in pain or if they have a feeling of numbness or tingling anywhere.

Title: Evaluate experimental and brain-imaging techniques and consider what they tell us about the brain and cognitive behaviour in typical and atypical individuals.

Brains are very important as you may know, that is why I will be giving you an insight on how to protect your brain and get information on how to know if you or a loved one could be having a brain hemorrhage. Imaging of the brain has become very significant to finding pathologies and catching life threatening brain hemorrhages. There are two types of hemorrhagic strokes and they are subarachnoid or intracerebral which means ‘within the brain’. These strokes can occur when a weakened blood vessel ruptures. Any one of these vessels can rupture which would cause bleeding into the brain, this is the effect of severe pressure and will lead to serious outcomes. This is why imaging of the brain is very important if you or a loved one is having symptoms of a brain hemorrhage. This could essentially cause injuries to the brain and could lead to symptoms of a stroke. Imaging is crucial to hemorrhages because how else would you be able to see what is going on in there! Computed tomography is the first step in the process of detecting a brain hemorrhage. There are other imaging modalities that can further see what is going on and are more detailed, they are just a little bit more invasive than the CT which is done at first. It is very important to catch the hemorrhage early because it could potentially cause permanent brain damage or death. According to the article “Guidelines for the Management of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage”, written by Joseph P. Broderick along with other

Electroencephalography (EEG) is one of the main techniques for detecting and diagnosing epileptic seizures. Due to large size of EEG data in long term clinical monitoring and complex nature of epileptic seizures, seizure detection is both data-intensive and compute-intensive. Analysing EEG data for detecting seizures at real time has many applications e.g. automatic seizure detection in long EEG data in neurophysiological clinics or timely alarm signal to EEG patient. In real time seizure detection, we have to detect seizures and provide results with negligible delay. Due to this reason, very complex and compute intensive algorithms cannot be used for seizure detection on real time. MapReduce and its variations have been effectively used for

“Today’s science is riveted on our body’s most amazing parts- the brain, its component neural systems, and their genetic instructions.” Neuroanatomy is the study of the anatomy and function of the brain and nervous system. The basic building block of the nervous system and brain is the neuron, or a nerve cell. The neuron is made up of different structures, all playing a vital role in the function of the cell. The first being the dendrites, the bushy, branch extensions that receive the impulse and conduct it towards the rest of the cell. From here the message passes through the axon, a single nerve fiber that carries the impulse away from the cell body. Many axons are covered with a fatty, lipid covering called the myelin sheath. The function

The changes in personality and behavior because of brain damage affect the daily tasks of people that suffer from brain injury. Everyone behaves differently from others and everyone acts different in social situations. Our brain is what makes who we are, and the brain also stores all of the information an individual has learned throughout the years. There has been multiple studies that have found how complex the brain really is and how our socio-cognitive skills helps individuals get through social tasks, but it may be difficult if an individuals’ personality changes after brain damage. The socio-cognitive skills is how individuals see and apply information about other people and social situations. Phineas Gages’ story shows how drastically our personality can change, if an individual suffers from brain injury. Phineas Gage was a railroad worker that has an accident

The neuropsychological evaluations include assessments on functions such as higher cortical functions as memory, attention and concentration, visuospatial abilities, speech-language functioning, and mental processing.The neurological specialist conducts an evaluation that is designed to permit logical inferences to be drawn regarding the structural and functional characteristics of a patient's brain by evaluating his or her behavior in response to comprehensive testing. When conducting a neuropsychological evaluation ethically the patient is required to provide consent for any medical research or medical intervention. The dilemma arises when the research or intervention can benefit the patients present or future and no patient should be disqualified

Award winning author, Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in 1959 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia. Her early childhood was spent in England but later returned home and began to study in missionary schools. Returning to England, she studied medicine at Cambridge University, just to go back home and begin her psychology degree at the University of Zimbabwe. Today she writes as a scriptwriter, consultant and film director. Tsitsi Dangarembga’s work focuses on the unfortunate oppression of women in African societies, along with children living in Africa. She spent most of her childhood in Zimbabwe attending missionary schools, seeing first hand how women could be treated in education along with in general society. Tsitsi Dangarembga grew up witnessing obstacles that women at this time to gain any sort of power, she would know the most about life in this time and she clearly shows that in her writing.

Functional connectivity is defined as the temporal dependency of neuronal activation patterns of anatomically separated brain regions. Our brain is a complex network of functionally and structurally

A recent study shows, two groups of students, one group is comprised of 21 art students, and the other group consisted of 23 non artists. The process used to analyze brain function is known as voxel –based morphometric scanning method. The first group observed, was the artists group. They two variables of interest that were observed, was their drawing ability. This encompasses their overall ability to construct 3 dimensional objects, and draw them with 3D perspective, to include a viewpoint, edges, and corners. (See figure 2) The other interest of area studied, was whether the participant was an art student, or belonged to the group that belonged to the art group. The art students, and non- art students were shown to have large differences. The research concluded that the group of students that were artists, had a substantially more mass or gray matter in the parietal lobe’s peroneus area. According to Chamberlain, this part of the brain I most likely inked to creativity and visual imagery. This part of the brain helps the artist to manipulate objects in their brain, and help them to take it apart in order to understand its basic foundations. When comparing these two groups, according to ( Makuuchi et al. (2003), Miall et al. (2009) and Schlegal et al(2012) , research shows that the regions of the brain that are associated with visual-spatial and motor processing, are shown to be not only

In the Crime Scene Evidence Collection, an expert in Brain Fingerprinting examines the crime scene and other evidence connected with the crime to identify details of the crime that would be known only to the perpetrator. The expert then conducts the Brain Evidence Collection in order to determine or not the evidence from the crime scene matches evidence stored in the brain of the suspect. In the Computer Evidence Analysis, the Brain Fingerprinting system makes a mathematical determination as to whether or not this specific evidence is stored in the brain, and computes a statistical confidence for that determination. This determination and statistical confidence constitute the Scientific Result of Brain Fingerprinting: either “information present” (“guilty”)-the details of the crime are stored