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Advancements Since Gage: How the Brain Supports Cognitive Function

conception that thoughts and reason came from the brain, while emotions came from the heart, or in some cultures, "the gut". Moder...

The Brain's Role in Cognitive Functioning

is comprised of pre-motor and motor areas (Johnson, 2009). The motor area has nerve cells that help ones movements and the pre-mot...

Gage, Galton and Biopsychosocial Approach

This research paper concerns the biopsychosocial approach and the case of Phineas Gage and the theories of Francis Galton, which w...

The Case of Phineas Cage

it also has an effect on a persons personality. The posterior or back of the lobe is comprised of pre-motor and motor areas (Johns...

Brain Development Research and Sonic Hedgehog Functioning

out a web of wirelike fibers known as axons (which transmit signals) and dendrites (which receive them). The objective is to form ...

Lessons From Phineas Gage

lobe (Johnson, 2009). The frontal lobe is comprised of two parts, the anterior also called the prefrontal cortex controls higher o...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

Kris Kringle's Personality

In five pages this paper analyzes Kris Kringle's personality in a consideration of delusions, hallucinations, and cognitive functi...

Cognitive Psychology as a Neurological Framework

of cognitive neuropsychology finds its contemporary origins in the 1960s, there are famous cases in history that appear to substan...

Defining Physiological Psychology

Banduras (1986) theory also addresses gender issues and how they span a significant range of behavioral concerns based upon perfor...

How Minds Can Change as We Age

certain functions. What is different between todays research and that of decades ago is that scientists now believe that a person ...

Human Brain and Hemispheric Specialization

In six pages this report considers human brain studies with the focus of hemispheric specialization and the importance of understa...

Causes and Types of Amnesia

In twelve pages the types and brain conditions causing amnesia are first discussed with a description of how memory and the brain ...

General Thomas Gage: Profile

of England (The American Revolution, 2007). Before the American Revolution he lived in America and was there when legal acts wer...

Bipolar Effect on Learning

& Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 2007). The advanced imaging technologies have allowed scientists to scan the brains of bipolar p...

Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

Recovering from Brain Damage

The writer argues that brain injury is more common than is generally believed, and examines the incidence of such injury, the type...

Classroom Technology and Research into Brain Function

prunes connections based on experience." The cycle is "most pronounced between the ages of 2 and 11, as different development are...

Learning and the Human Brain

operate a bit differently from each other, with the two main differences being logic resides on the left and creativity is control...

Defining Death

flawed and inherently contradictory. This seems accurate to this writer. There will always be inconsistencies and there will never...

Brain Response/Males & Aggression

et al, 2006). In this study, it was found that girls at every age demonstrated "more self-regulated, committed compliance and less...

Requirement for a New IT System

involvement in the system, this will clarify the functionality requirements. Information will also be gathered from the users, suc...

Skull Shape and Psychological Function

Mankind has worked for centuries to understand the workings of the human brain and how those workings associate with our behavior...

How to Retain Cognitive Abilities as We Age

This research paper presents a discussion of aging and how it affects cognitive function. The realities of cognitive aging are des...

What Happens When You Are Tired

Did you know that between 50 and 70 million adults in the United States have sleep disorders. The people are unable to function at...

Nature and Consciousness

In 5 pages this paper examines consciousness functioning as analyzed by various cognitive function theories. Two sources are cite...

Brain Stem Transplant Questions

In five pages this paper questions the ethics of brain stem transplants in a consideration of an article on the subject and philos...

Management Support Systems and Outsourcing

he type of IT functions or service increase in their complexity and potential sensitivity of the content increases the implication...

Books on the Mind Annotations

shirt while the other hand unbuttons it. The last section of the book deals with speculation about future discoveries relative to ...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...