The following article was published by Reuters and contains a serious methodological flaw. "WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Brain scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth‚ U.S. researchers said on Monday. The study‚ using functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI‚ not only sheds light on what goes on when people lie but may also provide new technology for lie-detecting‚ the researchers said. "There may be unique areas
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We briefly touched on the topic of the Fusiform Face Area (FFA)‚ the Parahippocampal Place Area (PPA) and the Extrastriate Body Area (EBA). We were introduced to the effect of damage to the FFA‚ which results in prosopagnosia‚ an impairment in the ability to recognize faces‚ but she didn’t really talk about damage to the other areas. This led me to wonder what people with damage to the EBA would feel like and how their perception of the world would differ. Majority of my dreams involve people and
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Risk taking adolescents It is a well-known fact that risk taking behavior increases during adolescence. Adolescence occurs between the ages of thirteen and nineteen (Santrock‚ 2012). Research has shown that risk taking activities are most consistently seen between the ages of twelve and fifteen (Smith‚ Chein‚ & Steinberg‚ 2014). And new studies have shown that our brains continue developing until at least age twenty. We usually start to understand the concept that there is risk associated with
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In this paper‚ I will discuss the brain and its functions as related to the movie 50 First Dates. The paper will discuss the three main characters and the cause-effect relationships that have affected their brains‚ as well as an analysis of what portion of the brain has been affected. In the romantic comedy‚ Lucy is the main character who suffered a brain injury in a car accident. Her main symptom was loss of short-term memory. This is caused by damage to the hippocampus‚ inside the temporal
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Case Study #1 James M. Bufford Liberty University Online 11/18/12 This week’s case study was very interesting from a developmental standpoint. It seems to be a rather blanket statement of our legal system to say that children under 7 are not held responsible for crimes and that a 6 year-old cannot form criminal intent. My personal opinion is that children differ in their maturity levels (some may act older‚ others younger‚ developmentally). However‚ with that opinion‚ I can see the
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Adolescent Brain Maturation and Cortical Folding: Evidence for Reductions in Gyrification Daniel Klein1‚2‚ Anna Rotarska-Jagiela1‚ Erhan Genc1‚2‚ Sharmili Sritharan1‚2‚ Harald Mohr3‚4‚ Frederic Roux1‚2‚ Cheol E. Han5‚ Marcus Kaiser5‚6‚ Wolf Singer1‚2‚7‚ Peter J. Uhlhaas1‚2‚8* 1 Department of Neurophysiology‚ Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research‚ Frankfurt am Main‚ Germany‚ 2 Ernst Stru¨ngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society‚ Frankfurt am Main‚ Germany‚ 3
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The Brain Development and Violence Juanita S Farmer DeVry University Victimology Professor: Jeannine Quear What causes a person to become violent? Is a person born to be a killer or do social pressures cause a person to lash out? These are questions that scientists have been searching for answers to for decades. Though there are many theories about biological influences‚ there is no set rule that applies to everyone that explains what makes a person turn violent. There are three events that
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The Brain Left vs. Right Spencer Wright College 100 American Military University Drucilla Russell The Brain Hemispheres Left vs. Right: How does this impact learning The brain is a continually researched part of the human anatomy. With advances in technology‚ medicine and psychology it has been continually researched. The current science we have now reveals many things about the brain‚ such as there are two hemispheres in the brain‚ the left side and the right side. How much truth
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Part I Option B The case of Phineas Gage is one of the most often cited in biological psychology. Explain what we can learn about the relationship between brain and behaviour from this and similar cases and describe techniques used by biological psychologists that can supplement our knowledge of this relationship. This essay explains what can be learnt about the relationship between brain and behaviour using the case of Phineas Gage and imaging techniques. It starts by briefly describing neurons
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Frontotemporal dementia is a group of disorders caused by progressive cell degeneration in the brain’s frontal lobes or its temporal lobes. The cell damage caused by frontotemporal dementia leads to tissue shrinkage and reduced function in the brain’s frontal and temporal lobes‚ which control planning and judgment; emotions‚ speaking and understanding speech and certain types of movement. In those younger than age 65‚ FTD may account for up to 20 to 50 percent of dementia cases. People usually develop
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