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Benefits of Acquiring Another Language

Recent research has found that parts of the brain grow when adults learn another language, which would make this endeavor very hel...

Disability and Information Processing

This research paper focuses on the topic of information processing and how it is relevant to dyslexia and traumatic brain injury. ...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

What Causes Birth Defects

A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects/congenital abnormalities. It could also related to the pregnant woman bein...

To Live or Not to Live? and Coma

This paper deals with the issue of traumatic brain injury and coma, which includes the trauma of families facing the decision as t...

Biology as it Relates to Loss of Brain Functions

This 3 page paper provides different examples of how Biology can be used to improve memory function after a brain injury. This pap...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Emotion, Muscles, and the Human Brain

function in the release of hormones, those chemicals which act as messengers between endocrine glands and various cells throughout...

Memory and Brain Effects of Classical Music

two separated mood dimensions - arousal and pleasantness - as they related to mood-dependent memory (MDM), having respondents spea...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

The Connection between Repressed Memories and Brain Lateralization

to suppress the right side which gives an immediate response. One experiment involved the use of chicks and the way that social pe...

Gender, Brain Structure, and Sexual Dimorphism

brain volume among primates in her work in the early 1980s, for example, Milton (1981) speculated as to whether lifeways such as f...

Gender Neuroarchitectural and Brain Structural Differences

gender identity, and sexual orientation, but also as they relate to "the prevalence of psychiatric and neurological diseases". ...

Simon Baron Cohen's Autism Theories

who is so totally into his own world, that he literally cannot react to those from the outside. As with any learning disability h...

Analysis of the Relationship Between the Brain and the Human Mind

In ten pages this research paper discusses the relationship between the human brain and mind. Ten sources are cited in the biblio...

Overview of Proteanaceous Infectious Particles or Prions

In five pages this paper discusses the replication of prion proteins that are responsible for brain cell degeneration. Four sourc...

Structure of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease Impact

In five pages this research paper examines how Alzheimer's Disease influences the patients' brain cells and structure. Eight sour...

Aggression and its Neurological Basis

This research paper consisting of seven pages discusses the effects of neurological processes and how they relate to the brain by ...

Music Listening and Its Effects

In ten pages this research paper examines the brain impact of listening to music discussing math and the 'Mozart effect' along wit...

Uniqueness of the Human Brain?

In eight pages physiology and philosophy are considered in the ongoing debate regarding human uniqueness that does seem to center ...

Uniqueness of the Human Brain

In twelve pages this research paper examines studies on the human brain to determine whether or not there is any uniqueness in tho...

Achievements of Roger Wolcott Sperry

"one of the leading luminaries of psychobiology and philosophy" (Puente, 1995, p. 940), Sperry argued that "a synthesis of science...

Is a Man with a Brain Tumor Who Commits Murder Guilty or Not Guilty?

In five pages this essay considers whether or not a jury should find a man who committed murder while suffering from a brain tumor...

Recreational Art Therapy Benefits

In six pages the uses of recreational art therapies and benefits for those individuals that are either suffering from a traumatic ...

Fight Between Mr. Covey and Frederick Douglass

In five pages this fight as presented in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is examined as evidence of the freed slave's ...

Juvenile Delinquency and TBI

In seven pages traumatic brain injury is examined in terms of types, treatments, and also the relationship between TBI and juvenil...

Learning's Theoretical Components

from personal experience, including elements of culture; 3. the development of learning through the function of the brain is relat...

Cognition, Memory, and Reading Neurological and Biological Processes

In seven pages this paper discusses how the brain functions in this neurobiological consideration of comprehension, memory, and re...

Emily Dickinson's Poetry and Themes of Nature and Death

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the poet's views of nature and death are represented in such poems as 'Twas jus...

Astrocytes and Depression

each passing year the average age of sufferers continues to drop. "...Depression in young people is on the rise" (Anonymous, no d...