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Overview of Brain Prosthetics

1995). Through these two books, we see striking similarities to the possible repercussions of brain prosthetics (Foucault, 1995)....

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...

Defining Physiological Psychology

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

Defining Death

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

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...

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 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 ...

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...

Test Design Linking Amygdale and Human Fear Emotion

adjustments in the magnetic properties that are blood-oxygen dependant (Gabrieli, 2005). When the brain is activated by a stimulu...

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 ...

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...

Prosthetics and Biofeedback

In five pages an overview regarding prosthetics and the biofeedback innovations that enable patients to exercise greater device co...

Prosthetic Knee Prototype for Pediatric Patients

phases of gait, the kinematics of the anatomical knee and the specific issues for pediatric prosthetic knee users, relates some of...

3 Brain Function Book Reviews

In nine pages this paper presents an annotated bibliography and review of Synaptic Self, A User's Guide to the Brain, and The Prim...

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...

Biopsychology

infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a civilized society, which ultimately causes him to display uncontro...

Traumatic Brain Injury - Job Coaching

negative emotions and maximize the positive emotions when faced with a task that is challenging. One of the issues with persons w...

Introduction to Psychobiology

the brain waves. Electrodes are places on the scalp and a machine picks up the shape and types of waves, e.g., alpha waves or beta...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

Neurological Issues And Learning Disabilities

relationship of the brain to learning has been studied a great deal among twins (Simmons, 2006). Some studies have shown that iden...

Brain Development

to each other (BrainWonders, 2001). The connections are best described as electrical impulses that move down the nerve cell and th...

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 ...

The Amazing Brain and The Secret Life of the Brain Annotations

infants as they later develop. The quiet environment of the womb is critical for the proper development of the brain during the f...

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...

Learning and the Significance of Prior Experiences and Knowledge

"the ideas of a new schema are connected not only to each other but to previously established schemata as well" (Daniel, 1999). Th...

Brain and Language

In twenty two pages the brain's biological structures and how they relate to language progression are theoretically analyzed. Fif...

Creating Well-Rounded Business People Using Both Brain Hemispheres

This 5 page paper argues that while most business is anchored in the logical left side of the brain, there is also room for creati...

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...

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 ...