Occipital lobe

It has been well established that personal stress can affect our bodies and behavior, but what about the stress experienced by our parents or even our grandparents? It is not too much of a stretch to connect a mother’s stress during pregnancy to changes in the fetus. It makes sense that what the mother’s body goes through during pregnancy could also affect the child, however, in the New York Times article by Inna Gaisler-Salomon, “Inheriting Stress” (March 7, 2014), the author discussed her…

Reese is a normal teenager who enjoys sports and, of course, her phone. She loves to text, play video games, and get online. She used to be very active and played basketball every day. Reese is on her phone during school and does not have very good grades anymore due to being on her phone. Her mom took her phone away thinking maybe she will try to bring her grades up. This only made her try harder to get online. This is because of synaptic pruning in the brain, the highly active risk and reward…

Anderson, Damasio, Kilma, Bellugi & Brandt (1991) observed three patients with aphasia who were taught how to fingerspell. Out of all of the patients, two patients were able to fingerspell. The third patient suffered too much damage to the temporal lobe to be able to fingerspell. An additional study conducted by Brentari, Poizner & Kegl (1995) compared temporal sequencing characteristics among the different signers. The three…

The frontal lobe is the largest lobe in the brain and is situated at the front of the skull. “The frontal lobes are involved in motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior” (CNS, 2015). The frontal lobe is important for many different things, and if damage occurs it could cause a significant impact on any one of these or multiple areas. With a traumatic brain injury the communication intent, transmission,…

his brain. Yet amazingly enough, he survived another 12 years, before he finally died May 21, 1860. Phineas Gage How many times have you wished you could take back something you said or did that profoundly affected your life? Because of the frontal lobe in your brain, you have the ability to choose your words and actions that associate with your emotions, but there was a man who could not. Phineas Gage was born July 9, 1823. He became a crew member of a railroad construction team in Vermont…

2006). Later on doctors would begin to understand what happened and what caused the personality changes in Gage. The part of Phineas Gage’s brain that was damaged was the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex covers the front part of the frontal lobe, affects decision making and personality, process thoughts and actions, and helps differentiate from conflicting ideas (Weiten 2014, 78-9). The large rod went straight through his prefrontal cortex, and later he experienced problems and changes…

the brain is. For example, it is easier to check your phone while you’re eating rather than when you’re behind the wheel. Driving requires integration of various brain stimuli such as auditory, visual, need for motor skills and use of the frontal lobe for judgment and decision making, (livestrong website). In other words, driving in itself requires a lot from the brain processes and adding another thinking task (such as reading, typing, and keeping focus off of the road due to response to a…

Your driving your new car down the streets with pride of how your father gave it to you as a present on your birthday. Unless somebody else behind you driving too. Is trying to multitask by texting and driving. And BOOM your new car is damaged by an idiot who tried to be a multitasker. What is multitasking? When I hear the word multitasking I think about how we ourselves do something by adding one or more things into a task. A good example is of us teenagers listening to music while doing…

“So you think, so you become.” When ignorance, and poverty struck a whole nation, and the elite makes a call to god… “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Many have witnessed or heard about act of terrors in Haiti on the name of “Zombification,” causing by a group of undercover criminals. It is by itself a broad topic full of stupidity, but this idea is important to introduce what I want to tackle today.…

With today’s fast paced society we are able to watch and see how different people live their lives everyday. Some of us are not very concerned with keeping up with the rich and famous, instead there are people who are interested in the lives of people who are in someway underprivileged. With today’s prison system we are seeing how underprivileged criminals are, especially juvenile criminals who we are completely doing a disservice to by locking them up and throwing away the key so quickly…