The limbic system is responsible for emotions‚ survival instincts‚ and memory and includes structures such as the hippocampus. The amygdala is in control of the perception of anger‚ fear‚ sadness‚ aggression‚ storing memory of events and emotions‚ and decision making. This allows for organisms to recognize similar events in the future and heighten awareness for such events
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disease. This disease affects mainly older people‚ late 50’s to early 60’s‚ and it is one that does not go away with time‚ but‚ instead‚ gets worse. There are three stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The first stage of the disease attacks the hippocampus in the brain‚ which deals with memory. With this‚ a person affected by the disease will start forgetting things. The second stage affects their emotions‚ and with the third stage‚ they will forget how to do things essential to living‚ such as breathing
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have a picture of it on my iPod as I asked my friend for help‚ am I able to type it up again for you tomorrow and get it to you for Thursday? I have completed the four questions; a) Outline the function of the hippocampus as described in Maguire’s study. - The hippocampus is located in the medial temporal lobe and belongs to the limbic system. The limbic system is the set of brain structures that forms the inner border of the cortex. b) Outline one difference between the MRI scans of
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9. Suppose a friend tells you that she thinks that she is psychic because she always has this “feeling” that her professor is going to tell a joke‚ just before the professor actually does tell a joke. Using the principle of implicit learning‚ how would you explain to your friend that she is not actually psychic‚ and that there is a perfectly logical explanation for her “feelings”? (2 points) • I would say she is not actually psychic because over the time she has spent with her professor
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In the dual-pathway model of fear‚ the “high road” leads to the ______ and the “low road” leads to the ______. Answer | | hypothalamus; cerebral cortex | | | cerebral cortex; amygdala | | | amygdala; cerebral cortex | | | cerebral cortex; hypothalamus | | | hypothalamus; amygdale | Curlee has a good ability to recognize emotions in herself and in others. She is also able to effectively manage her emotions. Curlee appears to have high levels of Answer | | emotional intelligence
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become toxic. Repeated exposure to stressful situations during childhood can cause the developing limbic system to release stress-mediated hormones and neurotransmitters effecting development of stress sensitive areas of the brain including the hippocampus‚ amygdala‚ neocortex‚ cerebellum‚ and white matter tracts. Stress response systems can also be affected‚ possibly altering the way the body response to stressful situations through processes such as neurogenesis‚ a process of synaptic overproduction
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MARIJUANA’S SHORT AND LONG TERM EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN Millions are abusing marijuana every day. In fact‚ 1 out of 7 high school students smoke marijuana more than once a day. Marijuana is taken very lightly and is the most highly used illegal drug. For this reason‚ society should know its short and long term effects on the brain. Marijuana can effect these two areas emotionally or physically. Also in some cases physical damages causes the emotional response. Although most public information
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Students tend to overload themselves by overnight study to memorize all the study material. However‚ most of them do not realize that we will have a better result by an adequate sleep than having a three hour sleep before an exam to memorize all the material. This restless lifestyle will significantly reduce health level and in fact reduces our memory consolidation and opportunity to use our unconscious mind to improve the skill that we learn. This theory was first introduced by Muller and Pilzecker
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References: Buzsaki‚ G. (2010). Hippocampus. Scholarpedia‚ 6 (1): 1468. Cherry‚ K. (2012). Memory: An overview of memory. Retrieved on 20 August 2012 at http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/a/memory.htm. Ehrlichman‚ H.‚ & Halpern‚ J. (1998). Affect and memory: Effects of pleasant
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Tutorial: The Brain The brain was a mystery for a very long time. Modern imaging has allowed us to study the brain and locate where important functions are occurring. Please remember that the functions do not happen in just one area of the brain. Many neural layers and areas are found in any one activity that happens. But what we do know though is that some areas do appear to be predominantly involved in certain functions. We will learn about the brain in the three-part model. We’ll first look at
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