Essays Tagged: "Prefrontal cortex"
Depression's Double Standard. Why depression affects women more than men.
women who were feeling sad to determine brain activity in different areas. They found that the left prefrontal cortex was activated equally in both sexes, but the blood flow in women's anterior limbic ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Aspects of emotion and memory relationship targeted to experience design
nt regions of brain, related to reasoning, decision taking, emotion and feelings is the pre-frontal cortex. As Damasio says, this is the place in which reason links to emotion, besides amygdala region ... for emotion, impairs learning.S. Greenfield, in her book about human brain, says: "The pre-frontal cortex seems to be important to our working memory, where arriving information and behavior in progr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
How Teens Get That Way
ing language and spatial orientation. Finally left to develop is the most complex mental arena, the prefrontal cortex, which integrates the senses with sophistication and reasoning.Reasoning is last t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
ADD/ADHD
hat causes ADD/ADHD. One possible theory for ADD/ADHD revolves around brain. It is thought that the prefrontal cortex portion of the brain controls planning, complex cognitive behaviors, the expressio ... personality, and appropriate social behaviors, which all seem to be affected in cases of ADD/ADHD (Prefrontal). Also it is known that the prefrontal cortex is an area very rich in dopamine, for this ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Two Factor Theory of Intelligence VS. Theory of Multiple Intelligences
the "variations in test performances were mirrored by differences in brain activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex, a brain region associated with memory, planning and goal-directed ability." (G-Sp ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Is ADHD a Fraud?
G. Amen has dispelled the debate whether or not ADHD is real or a fraud. ADHD affects primarily the prefrontal cortex (the brain's control for concentration, attention, span, organization, judgment, p ... ge and experience storage),basal ganglia (produce's the neurotransmitter, dopamine, which drive the prefrontal cortex), and the deep limbic system (mood control center).With before medication and afte ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Memory
activity at once, is short- term memory, generally short- term memory is located in the Pre frontal cortex, which is found in the front part of the brain. Having the ability to recall facts from a new ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The Role of the Brain in Cognitive Functions
cuss the accounting of Phineas Gage and his traumatic head injury, and discuss the operation of the prefrontal cortex of the brain as it applies to cognition. As it applies to cognition, the brain is ... hineas Gage, careless, unreliable, foulmouthed was reported (Macmillan).Cognitive Functions and the Prefrontal CortexThe brain has many different areas, through the discoveries made by neuroscience th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Phineas Gage the most famous Brain injury survivor
n an equilibrium, which dictates how we react to the stimuli.In the case of Gage, the damage to the prefrontal cortex altered his decision-making, temperament, and ability to engage socially. Understa ... functions. The frontal lobotomy came into action in the 1940s, which supported the theory that the prefrontal cortex dictated behavior. However, it does affect the functions of memory, sensory, or em ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Remarkable story about Phineas Gage
in change in personality, and talks about how other peoples personality changed after trauma to the prefrontal cortex.Later, other procedures have gone on to support this theory and help us conclude t ... nd help us conclude that behavior has, atleast some, biological basis. Pinel (2008) p. 16 discusses prefrontal lobotomy, which is "a surgical procedure in which the connections between the prefrontal ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception
The case study of Phineas Gage
od had been pushed through the very front of his brain. "Gage's accident seemed to suggest that the prefrontal cortex controls decision making, especially in social situations, and has a great deal of ... "cure them" of their illness.These days scientists are much more aware of the true functions of the prefrontal cortex. " Damage to the prefrontal cortex does not disrupt the basic function of sensory, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
The Curious Case of Phineas Gage!
cuss the accounting of Phineas Gage and his traumatic head injury, and discuss the operation of the prefrontal cortex of the brain as it applies to cognition. As it applies to cognition, the brain is ... f Gage's inappropriate behavior was a result of the damage that was done to his frontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex received information from all the senses. The prefrontal cortex then combines the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Is there a difference between remembering something and knowing something?
eone's concrete awareness of oneself (autonoetic consciousness) in the past, which is driven by the prefrontal cortex, allows people to mentally represent past, present, and future experiences in a hi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Cognition and Emotion
mple of a neural correlate of a cognitive process is the sustained firing of cells in dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex as a monkey maintains information in mind for brief periods of time" (Fuster and A ... mely the processes required to cancel an intended action, is believed to involve control regions in prefrontal cortex, like dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and inferior fron ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Sensation & Perception
Adolescence and Adulthood Developmental Stages Worksheet
rowth spurts occurring between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. During this period, the cerebral cortex becomes thicker and neural pathways become more efficient - this allows adolescents to think ... 2006). It has been suggested that education is the cause of the reduced atrophying of the cerebral cortex. Synaptic speed decreases as a result of a loss of dendrites, plasticity decreases and reacti ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
niggas in jail
uch harder to retrieve. In the article, "Study: Multitasking is counterproductive", it mentions the prefrontal cortex of the brain. People who have this part of the brain damaged have a difficult time ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Alcohol Abuse Among Teens
hol is poisonous to the nerve cells of the hippocampus causing them to be damaged or destroyed. The prefrontal lobe is important for planning, judgement, decision-making, impulse control, and language ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Speechless
f how events in high school could affect the rest of someone's life had been implanted deep into my prefrontal cortex. Now I persistently make sure the vehicle I'm about to enter is drug and alcohol f ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Essay 1
the way the brain is wired. The act of meditating gives the brain a charge that comes from the left prefrontal cortex, which is located behind the left part of a persons' forehead. This charge is elec ... d a persons' consciousness. Meditation also strengthens and stabilizes neural network in the medial prefrontal cortex, which is the brain's attention control center. It also in turn, helps you become ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community