Brain

Deep Brain Stimulation is a surgical procedure on the brain performed to improve a patient’s quality of life. The patient must remain awake during this procedure to insure the Doctor is stimulating the correct area in the brain. This procedure is not a cure, but it can drastically improve a patient’s thoughts and emotions by regulating abnormal impulses and affecting certain cells and chemicals within the brain that are causing the bad symptoms. Doctors implant small wire thin electrodes on both

The idea of epigenesis has become well known as an integral part of the constructivist theory which states that neural activity within the brain is largely spontaneous, driven by genetic and molecular instances (Mareschal, D., Johnson, M.H., & Grayson, A., 2004). However, after birth, the neural activity is influenced by sensory and motor experience and the outside environment (Mareschal et al, 2004). Epigenesis is what the constructivist theory is about, the interaction between genes and the environment

the difference lies in the brain. “The brain does not reach its full development until the age of 25, that is when the frontal lobe is fully developed.” The ever advancing medical world is home to groundbreaking technology such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI machines. With this doctors are able to get a view of what is going on in someones head. In 2008 Harvard Medical School did a study on teens to show how their brain functions differently than an adult brain. Harvard Medical professor of

FETAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AND THE PRETERM INFANT 2 NORMAL FETAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT Embryonic brain development begins a few weeks after conception through the processes known as gastrulation and neurulation (Gilbert, 2000). During gastrulation the embryo changes from a simple group of cells to a multi-layered organism. Three germ layers are formed during this process: the endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm (Gilbert, 2000). The endoderm is the most inner layer and forms the lining of internal

human brain, much like decoding the human genome. However, over the last several decades, brain research has taken a giant leap closer to unravelling some mysteries of the brain (The Human Brain Project, 2012). An important outcome of this ongoing research is that the brain is not a fixed and unmalleable organ as previously thought, rather a livewired and malleable organ with potential power to improve, rewire and heal itself throughout life (Doidge, 2007; Doidge, 2015; Liou, 2010). The brain continually

Drugs effect the brain It is not just illegal drugs that harm the brain and are addictive, prescription drugs can be just as harmful. People become addicted to prescription drugs all the time if not taken correctly or are taken for a long period of time. Chemicals in all these drugs change the way our bodies naturally produce chemicals, messing with the brain. The brain is made up of many regions that have different functions to help us through life. These functions are; coordination, judgement

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

Infants have an incredible mind in that they have the ability to learn and master a language in a relatively quick matter of time. The elasticity of babies and children’s brains is remarkable. It has been quite astonishing to watch my eleven month old niece grow and learn as she studies the things that my family and I say and do. She understands a range of words and sentences even though she is not able to actually articulate them yet. Soon she will be going from a blabbering mumbo jumbo speaking

order for your brain to make a decision, tiny special cells “talk” with each other through a series of neurotransmitters, like a circuit in a computer. Then the whole network puts out a response which becomes your outward behavior. Information travels from neuron by way of their axons and dendrites. To make the connection better the axons wrap themselves in myelin through myelination (Scholastic). Kids spend over seven and a half hours a day in front of a screen, that means their brains will develop

curious organ. Without we as humans would not be able to function in the world. The brain has a lot to do with our learning. In terms of how we learn and what hemisphere we use the most. The concept of the right and left brain think developed from research in the late 1960's by an American psychologist Roger W Sperry. The correct term for the halves would be hemispheres. Mr. Sperry had discovered that the human brain has two different ways of thinking. The right hemisphere being more visual and the