Cerebral cortex

Do you ever wonder and say to yourself “How can I be healthy and what do I need to stop doing in my everyday life style?”, actually, it’s really easy to be healthy, but it needs responsibility and care from the person following them. If a person wants to live healthy, he/she can do that by having new habits in his/her life. Everybody wants to live an active, vibrant life for as long as possible, and that goal depends on one’s brain health. Some habits that the brain and the body need to function

may make it difficult for the individual to complete daily tasks (sleeping, interaction with others, eating or focusing on tasks). Furthermore, if an individual’s reptilian brain is not regulated, then this individual cannot process through the neo cortex and /or attend to their

In Miller v. Alabama (2012), the United States Supreme Court determined that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole is unconstitutional to juvenile offenders. This decision is agreeable upon because adolescents do not receive the opportunity to reform themselves. As the Court suggests, life in prison violates the Eighth Amendment, which accounts for a ban on cruel and unusual punishment. However, juveniles still must be held accountable for their actions and should be sentenced

The human brain is not fully developed until one is in his or her mid twenties. Therefore, the statement “the brain development has finished by the time children reach puberty” is not true. Although it does not completely develop during puberty, the brain does go through significant changes during this period. By this time many basic functions needed for life are developed, but the frontal lobe is still not completely developed. This means that until one is around the age of 25 he or she is neither

Into a less certain future 1. The partially known past 2. The imperfectly understood present 3. The unpredictable future 1. The partially known past The record is not complete. DNA has not been recovered from specimens older than about 800,000 years. The fossil record is quite patchy but improving all the time. Just recently yet another unknown line has turned up in Spain which has a signature different from Neandertals and humans yet incorporating some Denisovan traits from Siberia. The

if-and only if-the cerebral hemispheres communicate. Thus, many neurosurgeons have been reluctant to try the split-brain operation for fear of severing all vital communications. However, there may now be a way to avoid the Jekyll-Hyde effect. A new form of the surgery devised by P.J. Vogel called anterior cerebral commissurotomy eliminates the Jekyll-Hyde effect. The procedure involves; opening the skull, laying back the brains coverings, then using a tool called a cerebral retractor to expose

History 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

Cerebral Palsy Cerebral Palsy is a range of neuromuscular disorders caused by injury to an infant's brain sustained during late pregnancy, birth, or any time during the first two years of life. People with cerebral palsy have a wide range of difficulties, from a clumsy walk to an inability to speak or swallow, caused by faulty messages sent from the brain to the muscles. In the mid-1800s, William Little, an English physician, first described cerebral palsy in connection with birth injuries

DR. Ramachandran says that the reason Graham doesn’t see anything, but can sense its presence due to damage in the visual cortex. In a case similar to Graham Young, Peggy Palmer suffers from visual neglect caused by a stroke in the parietal lobes of the brain. Dr. Ramachandran explains that parietal lobes create a three dimensional layout of the world around us, which allows

Topic: Computational Modeling of Neural Networks on Layer IV of Primary Visual Cortex Confirms Retinal Origin of Orientation Map Results section Orientation selectivity is one of the properties of neuron in primary visual cortex that a neuron response maximally when particular orientation of stimulus is given. The orientation map is a map showing the orientation preferences of cortical neurons in primary visual cortex. This research provides evidences for support of the theory posit that the orientation