Neuroscience Vs Dummon

Going back to the gray matter, the outer layer of gray matter is the frontal cortex. This is where we make decisions and where we do much of our conscious and complicated thinking. Phineas Gage, a renowned neuroscience patient in the 1800, was hit with a iron rod to the head, yet minutes after he was still able to move and act normal (Fleischman 6). The only thing was that he could not make decisions. When given a $1000 for the pebbles he collected, he angrily refused the deal( 19). He was not able to make the decision of  getting the money or not. Neuroscientists have learned so much of the brain that has helped us understand our own brains and the people around us. From this scientist learned that the sections of the brain had parts and functions such as language and comprehension(65). Lastly they learned about germs and that you need to make sure to disinfect your tools(17). Without this our technology that is here would not be as progressed if we did not know this.  All of these components helped us understand the teen brain just a little bit

I read the article, “Secrets of the Brain”, found in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic written by Carl Zimmer. I chose this subject because I have been fascinated with the brain and how it works. The research of the brain has been ongoing for many centuries now. The history in this article is interesting. It explained how scientists used to understand the brain and its inner workings. For example, “in the ancient world physicians believed that the brain was made of phlegm. Aristotle looked on it as a refrigerator, cooling of the fiery heart. From his time through the Renaissance, anatomists declared with great authority that our perceptions, emotions, reasoning, and actions were all the result of “animal spirits”—mysterious, unknowable vapors that swirled through cavities in our head and traveled through our bodies.” (Zimmer, p. 38)

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)

The brain plays the most important role in assisting to achieve and complete these cognitive functions. Several structures compose the brain, and many have a key role in the completion of cognitive functionality. The

The brain contains millions of nerve cells and about a hundred structures that control different parts of our bodies. The brain controls our movement, language comprehension, sight, hearing, it determines our personality, as well as behavior. The complexities of the brain often bring about problems that lead to cognitive and physical decline. As we

Brain research is the scientific study of how we think, feel and carry on. In this lesson, you'll get a diagram of the five noteworthy points of view that have guided current mental research.

The book The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, written by Dr. Norman Doidge, provides different intimate experiences from people that received help through neuroplasticity exercises. Each story describes how the brain is able to readjust itself. Brain plasticity can physically modify the brain by uncovering rewarding and tragic experiences. Changes in the brain can also occur as we age. Throughout the reading I learned several knowledgeable facts I did not know before. Some being the transcription and template functions, and the effects memory and learning have on the transformation of the brain over time. Another was Jordan Grafman’s research on the four kinds of plasticity; map expansion, sensory reassignment, compensatory masquerade, and mirror region takeover.

Cognitive psychology is the study of the brains internal processes that guide behaviour; to study cognition, psychologists examine case studies of patients with damaged brains that can infer areas, and functions involved in particular processes. Patient studies have provided insights into the processes that take place within our minds, and have enabled psychologists to create models, which can be tested and fractionated. Cognitive neuropsychology has developed from cognitive psychology to become a discipline in its own right; it investigates the function and structures of the brain involved in cognitive processes and should not be confused with cognitive neuroscience, which is primarily concerned with neural structures and their

LP2 Assignment: Secrets of the Mind Student: Kathryn Crandall National American University Date: December 12, 2015   Upon viewing the documentary “Secrets of the Mind” presented by NOVA, seemed more like mysteries of the brain. In this documentary, Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, who is a neuroscientist that is often known as the “Sherlock Holmes of neuroscience”, due to that he literally is a brain detective. He is also the director of the Center for the Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program at the University of California, as well as, Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute in San Diego, Ca.

In “Secrets of the Brain,” Carl Zimmer, a science writer and blogger, brings to us the new technologies that are unlocking the mysteries of how the brain works. Zimmer starts his article with his visit to a doctor in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Van Weeden and his colleagues, are working on a mapping the radio signals that the brain gives off. They have developed a scanner, which maps bundles of nerve fibers in the brain into grids. Weeden and his associates have been able to replicate finding grid patterns in the brains of monkeys, rats and human beings. Before he introduces us to the other scientists he has interviewed, Zimmer explains where the history of the studying of the brain originated.

“The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics,” by Leon Kass. Something about the way the brain functions has intrigued me for so long. The simple questions of how we do things, why we do the things we do, why we feel the way we feel, where does this all come from have been the questions that sparked my interest in the human brain. I have chosen Neuroscience as my major and I aspire to become a neurologist.

Neuroscientists are continually unraveling new ideas about the brain that is seems like we have known its function for almost forever. This is in fact not the case. For the majority of history, scientists and physicians thought the brain was simple made up of mucus. During the renaissance, those studying the human anatomy believed the brain to be almost entirely not there. Rather it was the result of animal spirits that commanded our cognitive reasoning.

My interest in Neuroscience began with the exposure to learning brain structures and its functions, which increased the understanding the brain structures and its relation to behaviors of people. Ever since then, I had enjoyed learning about the brain, its function, and how it relates to behavior, emotion, and cognition. During my exposure to learning and cognition classes, I enjoyed learning about neurological disorders and impairments that affects the brain. I enjoy learning about the various neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders and its treatments. I am interested in the pediatric and geriatric neurological disorders and their impacts to cognitive functions and the skills needed to effectively treat and diagnose patients with acquired and developmental neurological disorders or impairments. Thus, I have become more interested in the field of Neuroscience during my undergraduate psychology degree.

This, I led me too a love of psychology. How wonderful was it that there was a whole science devoted just to that one mystical organ? Studying the brain, we can unlock the doors to human

The human brain is a mystery that has been studied for centuries in attempt to understand how it functions. Scientists first thought that the brain was a structure that functioned a whole. It was in the early 1600’s where the first ideas of localisation of function in the brain started. At this time Rene Descartes discovered a tiny structure called the pineal