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    The human brain is a remarkable organ. It is one of the most important organs in the human body. The brain is responsible for most of what makes who we are, how we think and how we feel. Different parts of the brain control different aspects of our behaviour. There is a strong link between biological activity and psychological events. In addition to the interplay of chemicals like neurotransmitters and hormones, a lot of this has to do with that localised parts of the brain have specific functions

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    case study. Review of the disease/condition Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive mental illness that occurs in middle or old age, it is considered an age-related disease. The brain shrinks overtime caused by brain cell death over a period of time. When the brain shrinks it causes the tissue to make fewer connections to the brain which damages memory, speech and comprehension. This can be broken down into three stages; preclinical (where there are no signs or

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    of neural bases of spatial cognition and their role in related processes. 2. Brain regions involved in spatial cognition and related processes Much studies using various methods, including single-unit recordings, patient/lesion studies, non-invasive brain imaging and brain interference studies, have been done to investigate neural mechanisms underlying spatial cognition. As results, researchers have found several brain regions involved in processing of spatial information, including parietal cortex

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    The brain is the most astounding and most important organ that controls all the parts of the body, it interprets data from the universe and embodies the feeling of the mind. Intelligence, creativity, emotional behavior, and memory or rememberance are a small part of the different things controlled by the brain. Conserved inside the skull, the brain is filled with the following such as cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem. Each of these have a complex objective. The brainstem is used as a message

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    objective was concern with the issue of the cerebral blood flow located in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the brain, and how it correlated with the treatment response to low-frequency right prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the treatment of depression. Overall, rTMS studies various cognitive functions to help with the ordeal of understanding the brain-behavior relationship in normal individuals, as well with those suffering from a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders

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    The Infant Brain & Brain Development The nervous system and brain forming is an extravagant thing to draw attention to. There are several ways to figuring out newborns issues from the function levels. An infant’s reactions and emotions are based on the functioning level of the brain, including the nervous system. The brain and the nervous system have many different parts that makeup the body as a whole. The brain, and nervous system, consist of neurons which is a basic element that

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    significant progress in the field of neuroscience and the researches on brain’s study, there has been a huge modification of some statement that were considered as relevant in the past such “our brain controls our mind” but, nowadays it’s quite clear that science agrees the contrary , which is “our mind controls our brain” and this can be elucidated by the fact that statistics confirm that 75-98 % of physical, mental and behavior illnesses come from our thought life; 350 million worldwide people suffer from

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    Sherman, a mid-50s male, has come in today experiencing reading difficulty. Patient suffered a head injury 30 years ago that caused post-traumatic amnesia and residual right-sided hemiparesis for two weeks. Patient also reports being neglectful in taking phenobarbital to control his somewhat severe seizures and that the right-sided hemiparesis has increased leading to a facial droop. Prior to the seizures, the patient reports that he was an active reader; currently, the patient reports that he can

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    This is a multistage mechanism that involves many different areas of the brain. The first stage is planning, where the brain constructs words and sentences that turn the thought into an understandable form. This occurs primarily in the inferior frontal cortex, specifically in an area known as Broca's area. Next, the brain must plan how to physically create the sounds necessary for speech by linking the planned speech with known sounds, or phonemes

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    from there to ganglion cells which leave the eye as the optic nerve. Some of the axons or ganglion cells cross over to the other side of the brain and some of those axons stay on the same side of the brain. This is so the visual field can cross the image over to the correct side of the brain that it will be essentially processed at. One pathway that the brain sees and image is the “old pathway’”, and this pathway would tell me where the balloon is and enables me to turn my head and body to follow

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