Uncontrolled Profanity Study

I had two answers ready to go and delivered them without hesitation. The first was “I am the only person around with whom I can have an intelligent conversation” and the second was “Everyone understands you when you say something is “horrible”. Why embellish it?”

To reiterate, the study found that the brain images of those who had been convicted of a murder with aggressive or antisocial disorders showed distinct brain activity compared to those who were labeled as normal. The brain scans revealed a relationship between the orbital frontal cortex, the anterior cingulated cortex, and the amygdala, which has a vast impact on the control of negative and brutal feelings. The orbital frontal cortex has been found to control and limit the motivation of passionate upheavals, the anterior cingulated cortex was found to deal with responses to conflict, and the amygdala is known to control reactions to fear. Similarly, in 1915, neurologist Sigmund Freud claimed that active stimuli in humans push them into action and that these active stimuli are

I'm asking this question because the general or present definitions of these words lead to insults, racism, sexism, and overall; discrimination. I’m going to talk about the research on how these words became this way and originated over the years. I’m also going to talk about others views and opinions on whether or not curse words should be a thing. (4 sentences)

Name calling, profanity being yelled. Every day at school, I walk through the halls. Hearing people yell, talk, whisper, even just sit on their phones. Skip class, go to class, ditch the middle of class, every day, kids ditch class. Prejudice being said, racism taking its toll on men and women every day. And to wake up one day, to realize that this fairytale, it’s not a fairytale anymore, it’s called society.

Those affected by Tourette Syndrome are most commonly categorized as having compulsions, or a lack of control over certain words and phrases. They act as “one...driven to do this, to do that, against one’s will” (1). Specifically, they are afflicted with tics, involuntary repetition of words and actions, and involuntary cursing. The syndrome is a biopsychosocial disorder: a mixture of a biological,

The term ‘amygdala’ was first used by Burdach (1819) and referred to a set of nuclei in the brain (Aggleton & Saunders, 2000). In 1939, researchers Klüver & Bucy inflicted bilateral lesions of the inferior temporal lobe of monkeys in a laboratory in an attempt to reduce aggression. These lesions affected the cortical areas, amygdala, and the hippocampus. Later this became known as Klüver-Bucy syndrome, and consisted of symptoms such as psychic blindness, hypermetamorphsis, oral tendencies, and changes in emotional and sexual behaviors. Lesions of the amygdala made monkeys fearless of e.g. humans or snakes, and affectively flat, tame. This research brought recognition to the notion that the amygdala plays a significant role in the

Aphasia is a language disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language. For most people, these are parts of the left side (hemisphere) of the brain. Aphasia usually occurs suddenly, often as the result of a stroke or head injury, but it may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor. The disorder impairs the expression and understanding of language as well as reading and writing. “Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage”. (Sarno 23)

When Johnny was in class one day, he was talking to his friends. One of his friends said, “You should go up to the bully and tell him to fuck off.” The significance of this word is that when someone cusses, it offends another person, even when it doesn’t relate to them. Some curse words are seen as offensive today and some of them didn’t always mean what they mean today. We are going to look at the original meanings and where the words originate from.

Aphasia is a language disorder that can be the result of a brain injury. An individual that is suffering from aphasia may experience difficulty speaking, writing, reading, or comprehending. There are three different types of Aphasia that differ in various ways. First, Wernicke’s Aphasia is the inability to grasp the meaning of words and sentences that have been produced by another individual. This type of aphasia is also known as “fluent aphasia” or “receptive aphasia”. Wernicke patients’ speech may come across like a jumble of words or jargon, but it is very well articulated and they have no issue producing their own connected speech. If the patient is consecutively making errors, it is common for them to be unaware of their difficulties, and not realize that their sentences don’t make sense. The severity of the disorder varies depending on the patient, and the disorder results form damage in the left posterior temporal region of the brain, which is also known as Wernicke’s area.

- Most Dramatic: large motor movements that self-harm the individual. This may include punching the face and repeated swearing. Coprolalia is repeating words or phrases of others which offends others because they are usually curse words or inappropriate words. Only a small percentage of people with Tourette’s have this complex form.

uly 20, 2016 at 3:30 p.m.. at Terrence Fregly Community Center, I Tiffany had the opportunity to observe a five year old boy who we are going to called Lou, during their free time. As I was observing Lou running and playing amongst his friends I notice inappropriate behavior such as throwing objects at other kids in his group and using inappropriate language towards the kids as well. Lous showed inappropriate behavior at least three time within a hour. I have spoken to one of the staff, she stated Lou behaves like this when his older siblings are not around which triggers him to get angry and since his friends tries to comfort him he turns his angry towards other children by throwing surrending objects and using inappropriate language. As I continued to

The importance of the amygdala in social cognitions has been examined in both primate and human studies. Use of primates to study the social brain suggests that the amygdala contributes to social cognition. Kluver and Bucy made large bilateral lesions in monkey brains made across the amygdala, temporal neocortex, and surrounding structure. After the lesion, the animals engaged in hypersexual behaviors, unusual tameness, and a lack of knowledge about emotional stimuli. Lesions exclusively targeting the monkey’s amygdala resulted in similar, but more subtle impairments. This suggest that the amygdala may play a role in emotions elicited by social cues. Studies of the amygdala’s role in human social cognition suggest that the temporal lobes process socially relevant facial information from humans. Emotions from facial expressions, in particular fear are projected to the amygdala. Studies using FMRI to examine typical subjects and subjects with amygdala damage support this theory. Individuals with amygdala damage have difficulty recognizing facial expressions, specifically negative emotions such as fear.

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, commonly known as Tourette’s syndrome, was named after a French neurologist, Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette. Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary movements and vocalization more commonly known as tics. Georges Gilles de la Tourette first diagnosed Tourette’s syndrome to an 86-year-old French woman in 1885. Since then, researchers still have not found a concrete cause for Tourette’s syndrome. Even though they have not found a direct cause for Tourette’s syndrome, they have chosen some possibilities to further research. The points that they focus on are abnormalities in brain regions, the connection of the regions and the neurotransmitters responsible for communication. The

Apraxia of speech is a Motor Speech Disorder that impacts an individual’s ability to make the plans and preparations necessary to produce speech. Apraxia of speech causes an individual to have difficulty speaking when they want to or are asked to, and also causes the production of words to vary each time the speaker says them. Having this disorder does not impact the individual’s ability to comprehend speech and a person with apraxia of speech knows the message they want to communicate, but they experience a breakdown in trying to formulate and articulate that message properly. In adults this is generally referred to as acquired apraxia of speech, and can be caused by a traumatic brain injury, stroke or some other form of injury to the brain.

The purpose of this paper is to pursue one important and fundamental aim: language and the brain are purely inseparable since it allows us to perform essential tasks such as generating, comprehending and expressing speech. With damage to the brain, individuals can no longer perform such tasks which can ultimately lead to many types of language disorders. The focus of this paper is Broca’s aphasia, a language disorder characterized by the inability to produce written and spoken speech. Damage to the brain can cause many types of speech impairments as well as comprehension deficits.