Music plays an important role in our everyday lives. While not a necessity—like water or food—to many it is a daily activity that is part of your routine, just like brushing your teeth or showering. Many people have a favorite genre, whether it be rock or hip-hop; a favorite artist or band, such as The Beatles or Beyonc©; or even a go-to pump-up song to listen to during before an important football game or a sad song to reminisce to […]
In the ‘Brain Growth’ article, the reality shown is that there is no smart or dumb and these are the common misconceptions. In fact, it is strong and weak when it comes to the brain, as it acts much more like a muscle than some inherent power we are born with. Many researches had been developed but the new research provide evidence to the claim that the brain is a muscle and it can be grown with persistent practice. A […]
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Get help with your assignmentEnhancing and experimenting on the human brain has always been a controversial topic due to arguments based on ethics. In the hypothetical event that a brain would be altered and would bypass the laws of ethics implemented, a researcher may look at the environment the individual may be in and determine characteristics based upon that. For example, a super soldier would need to be quick on his/her feet and be able to react to situations quickly. A super soldier would […]
A new study from the University of Toronto has shown that fear memories created closely in time are stored by the same group of brain cells, suggesting a new way that memories can be connected. Madeleine Slater Review of Rashid AJ, Yan C, Mercaldo V, Hinsang HL, Park S, Cole CJ, De Cristofaro A, Yu J, Ramakrishnan C, Lee SY, Deisseroth K, Frankland PW, Josselyn SA (2016) Competition between engrams influences fear memory formation and recall. Science, 353.6297: 1095-9203, doi:10.1126/science.aaf0594 […]
Since Psychology was emerging by the first psychologist, Sigmund Freud, psychologists just get more informations than just records from talk therapies. Neuroscientists developed several techniques to study brain behavior by measure their emotional and intellectual activity to understand people better through their brain to be able to further observation their physical behavior. They find a way to ensure it is safe to use on patients while obtains important informations they can find. The Neuroimaging techniques is use of different techniques […]
SUNY Plattsburgh at Queensberry Autism is a neurological disorder known to affect several brain regions. Studies have shown that the gut- brain communicate and have effects on GI issues and behaviors associated with ASD (Marler, Ferguson, Lee, Peters, Williams, McDonnell, Veenstra-Vanderweele, 2017). Recent studies have shown that changes in gut microbiota can have effects on GI and produce problem behaviors (Vulong& Hsiao, 2017). Gastrointestinal dysfunction has been correlated with the degree of social impairment in ASD (Israelyan, & Margolis, 2018). […]
Throughout the course of a school day, throughout the course of every day, there are many things that can affect a child’s learning. One of these is emotional states. Emotional states are one’s experience with emotions such as joy, sadness, fear, disappointment, and stress (Jensen, Teaching with the Brain in Mind, 2005). Emotional states help to regulate one’s behaviors while also helping them make sense of what is happening in the world around them. Emotional states influence the way one’s […]
Einstein’s brain was stolen after his death. He had a fat head when he was born. Albert Einstein never learned how to swim. He offered his wife his Nobel Prize as part of their divorce. Now you know a few fun facts about Albert Einstein, let’s move onto his early life. On March 14, 1879 Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. He grew up and has his early education in Munich, Germany. He was a poor student and some […]
Serial killers minds have intrigued us since H.H. Holmes, who became our first American serial killer. Whenever we hear about them. We always want to know all about them, like what they did? And why they did it? The mystery that comes along with people like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jack the Ripper, and the Zodiac killer captivates us, but yet would never want to be associated with one. James Fallon, a neuroscientist, studied 70 brains and found these […]
“Have you ever wondered ‘what is going on inside their head?’” This question from the movie ‘Inside Out’ has no doubt gone through many people’s minds while watching children or teenagers. The way to answer it is to take a look into the field of psychology. Through developmental psychology, we can see some common behaviors in babies, children, and teenagers. Information in this paper will show how the brain of an infant develops in the womb, and then how he […]
Addiction is the condition of repeatedly using a particular substance or doing a particular activity, despite its damages. In some estimates, the modern-day addiction crisis in the United States started in the 1800s when patients suffering from injuries and illnesses did not have proper medications to ease their pain. Pharmaceutical industries developed painkiller drugs and convinced doctors that they were not addictive. However, after using painkiller drugs for a particular time patients started to become addicted to them. The use […]
During my first day of the challenge I tried to figure out what are affirmations? Throughout the day, I tried not to dwell on the negatives of situations and practiced positive self-talk. Anything I said to myself in the mirror, out loud, or in my head needed to encourage my greatness and to overcome challenges I faced throughout the day. I printed out ‘positive’ quotes. These short phrases consumed my sight. I put them on my mirrors, windows, walls, and […]
Contrary to popular belief, only about 15 to 20 percent of Americans are bilingual (Franklin). Implementing bilingual education can change this. The world is growing and English is no longer the international language. Therefore learning more languages can only help. In fact, learning languages is one of the brain’s source of nutrition (Schwartz). There are many misconceptions about raising children with two different languages at the same time. Some think their children will not be able to handle the pressure […]
Boys and girls differ in more ways than just the manner in which they dress, the things they enjoy doing, and the way they handle situations. They also have different developmental patterns and various key mechanisms that allow them to perform in different ways. There is significant and abundant research to show that boys and girls learn differently. Although not all boys act one way and girls act another way, for the most part, boys process information, behave, and learn […]
Pharmacology is the study of the composition, uses, and the effects of drugs. There are four subdivisions to pharmacology that tell us about drugs and the body and they are: pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics and toxicology. Pharmacokinetics is what the body does to drugs such as absorption, distribution, metabolism, etc. The study of what effect drugs have on the body is pharmacodynamics which includes the effect of drugs and the mechanisms of drug action. The use of drugs in treating diseases […]
Many researchers have speculated that lack of sleep affects our brain, specifically our memorization abilities. Sleeping is a key component for our bodies to function properly and our brain to process all the information we took in during the day. Disrupting our sleeping cycle may not cause any visible immediate affects but can cause lasting effects. An experiment was held to test whether participant’s memory was affected by being denied sleep for 2 nights for researchers to study their SWS […]
Everyday we make decisions that can affect our future. Our level of lifestyle choices determine the level of our health. From aspects such as physical activity to nutrition which nourishes and fuels our body, can determine if an individual lives a long healthy life. The body is a physical structure which sustains a profusion of systems that work coercively to maintain life. Three of these major structures include the brain, cardiovascular system and the immune system. Many articles have emphasized […]
Introduction The battle for people with Parkinson’s Disease may have just gotten bearable, according to the March 9th press release. This groundbreaking therapy study released showed that even those who suffered from advanced Parkinson’s disease needed less levodopa, which promotes dopamine, than normal, and were seen to have less side effects than commonly noticed with this type of standard treatment. Those who received the therapy reported longer periods of time with not only lessoned debilitating problems but an overall more […]
Most people, at some point in their lives, have noticed the uniqueness and complexity of the human mind. Unlike other substances, we cannot sense its being, see its color or feel its shape. But on the other hand, the mind contains our bodily sensations and even controls our movements. The constant talk inside that tells our stories and plans our future is too vivid for us to deny the existence of a mind. However, it seems hard to accommodate the […]
Freud’s, theory of the unconscious challenged different parts of Locke’s, Butler’s, and Hume’s theories of personal identity. Although Freud was pretty straightforward with his arguments towards his thinking of personal identity, the three philosophers come up with their own theories which are challenging to some ideas Freud brought up during his theory. First, Freud believed that the unconscious mind was a force of feelings and thoughts. He believed that the unconscious mind came from memories that was caused from the […]
Dualism is the view that the mind and the body are fundamentally distinct entities. There are two main types of dualism, substance and property Dualism. Both types of Dualism are formed from the mind-body problem, which is, what is the relation between our mental lives and the physical aspects of our brains and bodies? Substance or Cartesian Dualism views the mind and body as distinct substances and is the view Descartes (318). Property Dualism, argued for by Jackson, believes mental […]
Educational Psychology is a period of education. It is a science that supplements the course of schooling. It is a branch, a fragment of training. It depicts the conduct of the training and tries to clarify it as far as his inward urges, intentions, drives and the natural impacts to which he is subject. It is an investigation of kid’s psychological life in its different perspectives concerning its application to the instruction of the kid. Educational Psychology furnishes the instructors […]
Within, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, doctor Oliver Sacks tells his experiences conducting a series of case studies and producing critiques for the medical community. Sacks states, “Neurology’s favorite word is ‘deficit’, denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties)” (3). Sacks feels that the medical community, […]
“The functions of sleep are not fully understood or fully explained by science and this has led to the undervaluation of sleep by health professionals. Traditionally thought is that perhaps inactivity was a survival mechanism during the vulnerable period of night or a way to conserve energy, but more recent research suggests that sleep is a complex combination of restoration for both the body and more importantly, the brain (Why Do We Sleep, Anyway?). There are 4 stages of sleep, […]
The opioid epidemic has been growing through the years. Each year there are more and more deaths because of opioids overdose. What is the main cause of this and how is it affecting our brain? Opioids are affecting our brain and affecting our behavior, our appetite, our way of being and it’s making us go crazy by every time we take more opioids. Opioid deaths increase by the year, but we don’t know the reason behind it. Our brains are […]
One way to define alcoholism would be a destructive disease that enslaves people into choosing alcohol over everything. Where does alcoholism come from? Why is alcoholism such a common issue, yet most people don’t know that they struggle from the addiction? Even better, what has the government done about this issue? In the early 1980s, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, stating that it is illegal to drink under the age of 21. Ever since the law was […]
Science and technology has brought deeper understanding and thus meaning in the way human beings think, feel and act in regards to various aspects of life that touches human’s and animal’s functionality. One such area that has widely caught the attention of scientists is the brain accentuated by space science. Both the conscious and the sub-conscious minds possessed by animals give a sense of comprehension and meaning in deciphering and in turn makes it easier for animals perfectly well maneuver […]
During class there is always discussion about what people do to cope with stress, and this is something that varies for everyone. After reading through a few articles on the Internet I came across one that stood out to me in particular about a Harvard neuroscientist, Sara Lazar. The title of the article is Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how is changes the brain. What I enjoyed about this article was it was an interview between the […]
Abstract The National Sleep Foundation’s Annual Sleep in America poll of 2018 showed that only ten percent of Americans rates sleep as a top priority. With all the literature that is taught about how vital sleep is to one’s health, these results were shocking. Sleep is an essential physiological need for survival. To be deprived of sleep has many unwanted effects on the body. Total sleep deprivation has been shown to negatively affect many physiological, cognitive, and behavioral measures within […]
Sleep is one of the most overlooked necessities we have. We stay up late with colleagues or labor over unfinished work without a second thought to the amount of sleep we might be losing. High School students develop in fast paced and demanding environments that require the best they can offer. Often at the cost of their own personal time. Unbeknownst to us, irregular sleep patterns affect both our physical and mental health almost immediately, more so on the developing […]
