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Gram Young Case Study Psychology

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This summary I based on a video found on YouTube, depicting the findings of neurologist Dr. Ramachandran. He investigates four young men with different brain damages in a small section of their brains. Gram Young, who is blind, but yet can see, Derek, who still feels pain in his arm that is no longer present, John, who sometimes believes that he is a god who created heaven and hell and last theirs David who believes is parents are imposters. All four have suffered damage in tiny sections of their brains that as proudly disturbed the way they present their self and the world around them. To us as people with a normal working brain they may seem crazy but trust me they are not. In the first case study Derek explained that "I could feel …show more content…

Using the "What" theory, he evaluates our third case study David, who seem to have damaged his "What" pathway. David explained that he was in an accident driving back home to California from Mexico, "There was a problem with the car and I landed on the highway with my head first." After the accident he lay in the hospital under coma for five weeks. David would seem normal, reading, conversations, talking, but except for one little detail, he would see his mother and say "This woman, Doctor, she looks exactly like my mother but in fact she's not my mother. She's an imposter. She's some other woman pretending to be my mother." After that David considers his parents as imposters and not his real parent. This is a symptom called the Capgras Delusion. Dr Ramanchandran evaluates the theory of the Capgras Delusion that when you look at an image or object the visual center of the temporal lobes picks up that image. But when the image is sent as a message to the temporal lobe cortex to say David's reaction to his mothers' image, to say well she is my mother. Dr Ramanchandran explains that David recognizes his mother, but the message sent with the image did not reach its destination, the Amygdala, but because the fibers were cut during the period he had the accident "therefore, There is no emotion. There is no warmth." David's mother gave him a

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