QUANTITATIVE ARTICLE REVIEW Context-Sensitive Positive Behavior Supports for Young Children with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Second Replication Study EDUC 518 February 7, 2014 SUMMARY Traumatic brain injury or TBI as it is sometimes called is the injury of the brain that is caused by a powerful force outside of the body. Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in childhood (Kraus, 1995). As a result of TBI, many young children/students
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Brain Lateralization and Language Reflection Paper PSY/340 9/14/15 University of Phoenix The brain is divided into two hemispheres with the corpus callosum connecting them. Each side of the brain is responsible for different functions. Most mental functions are distributed across both hemispheres, but there are explicit processes that are specialized to one hemisphere or the other. For example, both sides of the brain perform functions related to language. But in most people, grammar and
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Implicit and Explicit Memory The brain's memory systems are divided into two types: implicit memory and explicit memory. The main difference between implicit and explicit memory is their relation to consciousness: explicit memory transport data to consciousness in the form of images or thoughts, while implicit memory mainly skips consciousness (Memory, 2009). Procedural memory is another type of implicit memory. Procedural memory allows individual to gain specific skills, like using a music instruments
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Adam Gazzaley, computers; specifically gaming, improves the brain activity in the prefrontal cortex (Smith et al, 2001). The prefrontal cortex is the part of the brain associated with cognitive control. Adam Gazzaley is a well-known professor in the field of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He also founded the Neurology Imaging Centre. Gazzaley led a team in a study that attempted to prove that when particular cognitive abilities were targeted in the game ‘NeuroRacer' they increased
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What the Heck has Internet Done to Our Brains? Section I: Introduction and Context Imagine going back in time and staying there permanently. Out of all the things that will be missed, there is no doubt that the one thing would be technology. The Shallows: What Internet is Doing to Our Brains is nonfiction book written by Nicholas Carr who asserts and cautions the effects that internet has on everyone to this day and even more so in the future. People nowadays can communicate with people all around
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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
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A. The prenatal and postnatal months are periods in which the brain experiences rapid growth, with changes continuing throughout childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. For instance, one cell can develop into an estimated 86 billion neural cells in forty weeks (lecture seven, 2016). Furthermore, the weight of the brain increases from being 4% of its adult weight five months after conception, to 25% at birth, 67% at age one, 90% at age five and 100% at age sixteen; although many internal changes
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During the preschool years, we experience quick changes in our physical and cognitive abilities. Our bodies change in shape and size now; everything gets longer. Nutrition begins to affect us in a deeper way because when we are babies, we need to consume a lot of more calories, but in our preschool years, this is not the case. Kids begin to be categories as obese if their body fat percentage is above 20. Kids start developing illnesses like getting the flu a lot. At this time children also suffer
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foundation, 2002) Alzheimer’s disease is a neurological brain disorder discovered by a physician in 1906. (Fisher center for Alzheimer’s research foundation, 2002) Alzheimer’s is a most common form of dementia which is described as a group of disorders that impairs mental functioning. Alzheimer’s is unfortunately irreversible and progressive at the moment. Over time, abnormal changes worsen in the brain interfering with any aspects of the brain functioning. Memory loss is the earliest sign of Alzheimer’s
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The science of psychology has been a controversial study since its discovery. It is sometimes referred to as a “fake science” or claimed to be useless. But trying to understand how the human brain works has been inherent in the human species since we became more advanced. And after all, the human brain is so advanced that it actually named itself. Within the field of psychology there are many different pillars of ideas on which the study stand upon. The following will discuss the major schools
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