Cerebral cortex

realized that the brain made the same continuous electrical pattern. The subjects were then shown something that was funny. Not even five-tenths of a second after the subject saw the joke, an electrical waved moved through the cerebral cortex. This part of the brain, the cerebral cortex, determines intelligence, determines personality, motor functions, planning and organization, and touch sensation. Laughter would result after the wave

The moment Dr. Jekyll approached me and asked me to collect pieces of various brain, I knew something insane was about to happen if I helped him out, but I wasn’t going to say no to the scientist who predicted the zombie apocalypse. It has been exactly 97 days since the outbreak of zombies first began. Since the day I lost all my friends and family to the zombies, I have been on my own until I found Dr. Jekyll, who brought me to his survivor’s camp stationed in Arizona. As far as I know, we have

Abstract: The purpose of this research paper is to discuss how we learn. How does learning correlate with the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain. Also, I discussed how the different structures work in relation to the learning process. Furthermore, I have discussed how disease and injury may affect learning. I used several different resources to gather my information including: educational video, scholarly journals, and my textbook. What is the brain’s role in the learning process? Does

brain is the boss in your body. It controls the way we do everyday functions. We do so many functions in one day, the cerebral cortex has to divide those function between its four lobes. The four lobes are called the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, and parietal lobe. The frontal lobe gets its name by its location. The frontal lobe is located in frontal area of the cortex. The frontal lobe is responsible for mental processes such as thinking, decision making and planning. The frontal lobe

Purpose of the Study and the its Scientific Rigor For the study’s purpose, MDD is separated into two different categories based on the age-of-onset: EOD and LOD.  Previous studies have indicated that EOD patients suffer more suicide attempts, irritability, sadness, childhood-onset anxiety disorders, neuroticism, and other atypical symptoms than LOD patients. Additionally, it has been found that EOD patients have a high familial risk of MDD. Though psychological and genetic correlations have been

Our brain has four different parts (known as lobes) that are required for different types of bodily functions (found within the cerebral cortex). The different parts are called: - 1. Frontal lobe (motor cortex) - which is found on the forehead. This part of the brain is mainly involved with lever cognition and expressing languages. 2. Occipital lobe (visual cortex) – which is found at the back of the brain. This part of the brain in mainly involved with interpreting visual stimuli and information

cognitive disabilities. It is the major cause of dementia in the elderly and is characterized by the presence of neuropathologic lesions including: neurofibrillary tangles in the neuronal perikarya and in pyramidal neurons of the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and neocortex, nucleus basalis of Meynert, and periaqueductal gray. Neuritic (senile) plaques often with a central or core deposition of amyloid within the plaque and in some cases with amyloid infiltration of blood vessel walls (amyloid angiopathy)

they are: ● the cerebral cortex, ● limbic system, ● the cerebellum ● and the brain stem The cerebral cortex The cerebral cortex is split into two cerebral hemispheres (the left and right hemispheres). Sometimes the right hemisphere is related to creativity and the left hemisphere is related to logic abilities. It is divided into four sections called lobes, the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe. This is the largest part of the brain. The cerebral cortex is associated with

Lundgaard et al. (2015) also recognized the conflicting hypotheses in cerebral metabolism and that until this uncertainty is removed, the reliability of neuroimaging data interpretations is reduced. To address this problem, they created a near-infrared 2-deoxyglucose probe (2DG-IR) and used two-photon microscopy to assess whether it is neurons or astrocytes which are taking up more glucose during neuronal activation. If the ANLS hypothesis is correct, astrocytes should be observed taking up more

1. Presentations from two classmates The two presentations I chose were William’s Parkinson’s Disease and Miguel’s Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE). The reason I chose the Parkinson’s one was that I presented on Huntington’s disease (HD) and people often compare the two. I was saddened to learn that the cause of Parkinson’s has yet to be discovered since they have discovered the faulty gene associated with HD. Both diseases are still in need of a cure, but I feel that HD is just one step closer