...Brain Mapping Kaitlin Pollock Brain Mapping The brain controls thinking, moving, or any actions that are taken by a single person. Actually figuring out how the brain works is a very interesting topic. One way they do this is by using brain mapping. Brain mapping is the study of the brain using imaging, and they use these imaging machines to make a map of the neurons and synapses in our brain to figure out why people are the way they are. The history of brain mapping is important to understanding how far it has come today. There are many different machines that are used to take a look at the brain. When treating a patient there are different ways doctors can go about using brain mapping. This field just as any other field, is growing every day and never know what tomorrow could bring. Brain mapping has brought us many accomplishments in the medical field, understanding how it got there is the first step to the process. Taking a look at history can be boring at times, but when talking about the brain nothing is boring. In the early 1900’s is when humans first started to realize that our brain did a lot of the work compared to the rest of our bodies. People were shocked because how can that be, something you cannot see is the whole reason why you are the way you are. After this was discovered people wanted to take a look at this and start understanding it more. The first imaging machine ever used was the X-Ray machine in 1895. This machine is what gave the idea of using...
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...Left Brain Compared to Right Brain Joel M. Flores COLL 100-190 American Military University Shannon Voyles Left Compared Right Sided Brain Learners Left and right sided brain learners learn through different pathways of input to comprehend. When considering emotions both sides of the brain are responsible for emotions; the right side is known for negative emotions and the left side is known for happy emotions. The left side of the brain is responsible for language and math learning. As a left sided brain learner a person is a logical detail learner that focuses on facts and rules of language. The left sided brain learner is also focused on math and science in relation to pattern perception. These individuals are able to learn strategies through numbers, objects or verbal cues. The right side of the brain is responsible for nonverbal communication, recognizing shapes/patterns and auditory recognition. Right sided brain learners always are trying to take in the larger picture of issues and are often known as the philosopher of the learning group. There are some that do not believe that individuals are left or right sided brain learners at all, but have brain that developed differently and compensate for the different development. Brain regions with more gray matter in one hemisphere may develop lateralization of brain functions ascribed to those regions. Alternately, if a functional asymmetry develops in a brain region, it is possible that there may...
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... The brain happens to be the uttermost important section of your body it controls every little movement, heartbeat, and the blood flow in your body. There are two components of the brain and that goes for both humans and animals too, they are separated into left and right sides and or halves. The left and right side of the brain has two different tasks and characteristics. The left side of the brain is the logical side of the brain it works with the verbal, digital, symbolic, and mathematical parts of your thinking process and reactions. This side of the brain is the side people benefit in school or at work or even being a teacher, going shopping and many other daily tasks. This is the non creative and musical side. You typically use this side of the brain in more serious moments. Unlike the right side of the brain. “ The right side of the...
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...When you meet new people, why do you remember some names but not others? This is an example of a question that psychologists working in brain science and cognition seek to answer through their research. These psychologists spend most of their time studying human thought processes and the capacity for understanding, interpreting and retaining information. They may choose to work in one particular specialty, such as memory or learning disabilities, or they may focus their career on a specific health issue or population. Psychologists working in this field apply psychological science to address a wide variety of issues that affect a spectrum of populations. They work with infants and toddlers to address behavioral problems and developmental disorders. They work with adults to address memory disorders, substance use and health-related problems. Others study the brain’s capacity to do tasks, handle multiple demands or recover from injury. In their work, many of these psychologists will drill down into intricacies such as how music therapy can help heal degenerative brain disorders or how quickly humans can learn a new language. Some study how the brain interprets smells. Others are working to decode the human brain. What You Can Do Most psychologists working in brain science and cognition spend their careers in a university setting where they teach or conduct research or both. However, there has been significant growth in other areas, such as human-computer interaction...
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...The Mind-Brain Relation is a relationship that has been explored for centuries and is one that we may truly never be able to understand. This is what I find so interesting about neuropsychology and the brain. Our brain is this magnificently complex physical structure composed of more than 80 billion neurons. Furthermore, to our understanding, our brain is responsible for how we experience a variety of emotions such as love, anger, and surprise. Taking the complexity an element of unknown into consideration I currently believe in the theory of reductionism. Reductionism, which is also known as materialist identity theory, states that the mind is simply a brain event and that it is a one-way causation. The other two notable theories we have discussed...
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...Neuroscience Leadership Aleksander Varga USASMA Abstract In the last decade scientists have made huge progress in the neuroscience field, which has had a tremendous impact on leadership development studies. Knowledge gained through brain observation helps us to understand how the brain responds during certain activities and how some processes in the brain are connected to each other. One important part of our brain is the limbic system, a primitive system responsible for our long term memory, how we build relationships, and how we create patterns based on experiences. Another important part is the prefrontal cortex, which is evolutionarily younger than the limbic system and responsible for more sophisticated processes in our brain, such as our working memory with which we plan, react and judge. Connection between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex determines our response to certain situations. If we know that the brain cannot use both with the same power in certain situations, and that our brain is plastic and has the ability to change if influenced by certain exercises, this could be very useful information for leaders. We can use this knowledge to improve many fields from how to build empathy to how to change our and others’ behavior in accordance to make better organization, which will consequently make us better leaders. Neuroscience Leadership Leadership is probably as old as humanity. As a matter of fact, we can find some sort of leadership also in...
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...of our conscious, sometimes can be characterized as honest lying to ourselves or others around us. Our brain is tricky, and it unquestionably likes you to believe and identify things the way your emotions and thoughts want them to. Filling in gaps, and switching orders of events, is a way our mind likes to explain our feelings. In some cases this is a serious action and is considered a disorder such as Korsakoff's, Capgras, or even Cotard's. Many psychologists are looking into the research of how our brain works under those conditions, and what they have discovered is that our brain is split into two. The brain is suppose to communicate between one side to the other, however, there are many people who don’t have those nerves that send those messages between the two sides which results into split-brain syndrome. Throughout the chapter, the mind explains why it does the things it does. Asking questions like, why are we so ignorant when it comes to explaining our feelings, choices, and past events in a way we perceive or want them to happen even though it’s a lie. Due to Confabulation and misconception occurring in our brains, it is imperative particularly in an English class which is generally devoted to immense critical thinking, to pause and understand that trusting our brain a 100% is exceptionally risky, and sometimes not the best choice. In the left hemisphere of our brain, the control is mostly focused on speech, language, grammar, and syntax. In an English class, the majority...
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...The Human Brain: Reaction Paper Human beings are regarded as the ultimate life form on earth. Why is that? How different are we from other living creatures that make us superior from them? It’s simple, our brain. The human brain is a fascinating subject, and the videos shown to us on Thursday, February 18, 2016 were only a fraction of what is to learn about the brain. What distinguishes us from other animals that have brains is the ability to reason, to think, to process, to speak, and many more. I learned that there are different regions in the brain that control different functions in our body. The fact that a single organ controls me, and is aware of itself, it is so amazing to me. We were shown a caricature of person, where it shows that the largest parts are the parts of the body that are given a lot more attention by our brain, the lips and the hands in particular. It makes sense that our hands require more brain activity because we use it for almost everything we do every day. The brain works to keep us alive and functioning all the time, and it never rests. I learned that the brain is symmetrical on both sides, and the two sides of the brain are referred to as the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. I learned that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and is focused more on things that require logic. On the other hand, the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and is focused on more creative tasks. Although...
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...The brain is the most complex structure that is embodied in the nature of our universe. Millions and millions of neurons work together to make every human being different in the way they act, eat, and think. In this novel, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman, the neuroscientist digs deeper into the many nooks and crevices of the most powerful organ in the body. “Three pounds of the most complex material we’ve ever discovered in the universe. This is the mission control center that drives the whole operation, gathering dispatches through small portals in the armored bunker of the skull” (Eagleman 1). The many aspects of the brain allow Eagleman to venture through these ideas in his novel which all make an individual think how something so wondrous could...
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...video, “Men and Women’s Brains” by Mark Gunger. It is very funny but educational at the same time. In this video Mr. Gunger explains how men have boxes in their brain. The rule is that the boxes do not touch. When a man talks about something he has to dig deep into his mind to find that one specific box, while only discussing what is in that one specific box. He also informs us that stress is something that happens and forms very differently in men’s brains versus women’s brains. Men don’t like to talk about stress. However, women want to talk about it, figure it out and get in the man’s brain of what he could possibly be stressed about. The first thing I drew from watching this video was how truthful it was. Yes, it was quite humorous watching it, but it was true about both the men and women. There are boxes in a man’s mind. The rule is that the boxes do not touch. When a man talks about something he has to dig deep into his mind to find that one specific box, while only discussing what is in that one specific box. Then the box is closed, not to be opened again for a while. Women are very different about how their brains are. Women’s brains are attached and connected to everything. He says that women’s brains are “driven by emotion.” He said that is why women can remember more things and events than men. Men do the same process, just not as often. I thought this was right on track. I know that’s how my brain works. The speaker also talks about how women care about everything...
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...“BrainTraining: Should you believe the hype?” Etchells (2016) in his article “Brain Training: should you believe the hype” talks about whether a brain training app actually works the way they sau it should. Initially he talks about neuro-plasticity is and how the idea behind game training is surrounded around the basis of neuro-plasticity. He later talks about the idea of brain training and how it has become a large business over a very short period of time. He then goes on asking whether these apps or methods actually work and improve the users skills or not, he answers with his own point of view saying that according to him these apps do not work the way they have been described to work by the developers. He further goes on to support his views by sharing some statistics from surveys conducted in different universities. However he mentions that certain apps and techniques have shown results in the age group 60+. He concludes his article by mentioning that general video games that require reflex and decision making skills seemed to have a far better effect than brain training apps, so he advises us not to waste our time and money on these apps as they are not a quick fix to making us smarter. In this essay I am going to analyze Etchells (2016) article about brain training and give my personal opinion and discuss about the points I agree and disagree with. Reading the article it is clear that Etchells(2016) target audience are students of all ages who believe that instead of...
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...Neurological Processes Ugur Unal PSY/340 July 15th, 2016 Neurological Processes The brain is the most complex part of the body. This organ is the center of intelligence, interpreter of the senses, initiator of body movement, and controller of behavior. For centuries, scientists and philosophers have been infatuated by the brain, but until recently the brain has been viewed as perplexing. Now, however, the brain is beginning to show its secrets. Scientists have learned more about the brain in the last few years than in all previous centuries because of the accelerating pace of research in neurological and behavioral science and the development of new research techniques. The brain is like a committee of experts. All the parts of the brain work together, but each part has its own special properties. Biological causes of clinical depression continue to be studied extensively. Great progress has been made in the understanding of brain function, the influence of neurotransmitters, and other biological processes, as well as how they may relate to the development of depression. Depression or anxiety causes individuals to have many changes in their behaviors. They tend to become isolated from their family, friends, or be social. Their eating patterns lead to either weight gain or loss; and sleeping patterns change where they either do not sleep or sleep excessively. They become agitated, irritable, and fatigue or have lack of energy. Biological psychology aims at finding the...
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...are many people involved with this such as therapists and workers and even psychiatrists. Cognitive Behavioral therapy focuses on modifying the client’s thoughts and behaviors with the intent on reinforcing positive emotions, the client and therapist may work closely together so the therapists can help the client recognize the wrong way of thinking and replace this with positive thoughts. This approach would be to include helping them to reestablish goals and built on the idea of operant as well as respondent and social and classical thinking. There is also a technique called Dialectical behavior which is where the therapist and the client discuss issues that have happened during the week and the therapists helps the client work on improving these in the clients life and also decide which are the most important to do first, this may include emotions and social environments. LEFT SIDE VS. RIGHT SIDE 1 When I decided to choose this topic as the topic for my final paper I knew that I would have to do quite a bit of research on the left and right side of the brain to further understand the individual functions of each side and how each side impacts learning. I was quite surprised when I learned exactly how the brain works and how each side impacts...
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...Left Brain vs. Right Brain “According to the theory of left-brain or right-brain dominance, each side of the brain controls different types of thinking.” (Cherry 2012) From books to television programs, you've probably heard the phrase mentioned that people are either right brained or left brained thinkers or perhaps you have gone online to take a test to see which one you are. Psychologist have been researching the brain to try and understand learning capability’s that can help with such things as epilepsy, dyslexia and other seizure and learning problems. The right brain-left brain theory came from the work of Roger W. Sperry, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981. While studying the effects of epilepsy, Sperry discovered that cutting the corpus collosum (the structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain) could reduce or eliminate seizures. However, Sperry also discovered that after the two parts were no longer connected, the patients could no longer name objects that were processed by the right side of the brain, but were able to name objects that were processed by the left-side of the brain. Based on this information, Sperry suggested that the left side of the brain is used to process certain information such as language. When researching the different sides of the brain, it has been noted that each side is capable of leaning the same things just in a different way. The right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. The right side...
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...you can’t help but thinking, could it be real? It's not all in your eyes. An illusion is proof that you don't always see what you think you do because of the way your brain and your entire visual system perceive and interpret an image. Visual illusions occur due to properties of the visual areas of the brain as they receive and process information. Your perception of an illusion has more to do with how your brain works and less to do with the optics of your eye. Everything that enters the senses needs to be interpreted through the brain, and these interpretations occasionally go wrong. Illusions, may serve as a test to determine whether scientists understand vision correctly. When light hits our retina in the eye, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates that into a visual perception of the world. Our brains compensate for this neural delay and so it attempts to generate an image of what it will perceive one-tenth of a second in the future. Optical illusions occur when what our brains predict does not match the reality. A better way to think of it is in order to compensate for this massive loss of information and provide us with visual perceptions that are rich in contrast, color, and movement, the brain introduces abstract parameters that often fill in or amplify the fragments of reality that it is given to work with. The brain's powers to interpret visual information in this way are so great that it sometimes creates an impression of coherence where...
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