Assignment Brief HSC Number 1 Task type: Question and answers‚ with reflection where applicable. Pathway: NR Task reference: Task name: Unit 33 Description of Task: Questions to demonstrate your knowledge of the process and experience of Dementia. Scope of Task The following areas are to be covered / discussed / referred to in your answers: Causes of dementia. Types of memory impairment. How individuals process information. Other causes of behavioural changes. Personality changes. Changes
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dysfunction? Jennifer Uekermann & Irene Daum Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience‚ Ruhr-University of Bochum‚ Bochum‚ Germany ABSTRACT Aims Alcoholism is associated with a range of cognitive deficits. These deficits might be explained by the ‘frontal lobe hypothesis’ which suggests a specific vulnerability of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) to the neurotoxic effects of alcohol. Social cognition is thought to be processed in the PFC‚ but so far only few studies have addressed the issue of social cognition
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The Brain and Behavior BEH 225 September 21‚ 2014 Clifford Marsh Behaviors associated with the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe both covers a certain scope of human behaviors. Because every part of the brain controls a certain part of human behavior‚ damage to a certain part of the head will only affect certain behaviors of an individual. In addition‚ damage to certain areas can cause aphasia‚ which is a speech disturbance resulting from brain damage (Coon & Mitterer‚ 2013). As
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Jordan Borgerding Real World Case Study of Brain Injury The Last Hippie is the story of a young male‚ Greg F.‚ who suffers profound cognitive alterations and brain damage as a result of a midline tumor. Greg F. was born and grew in the 1950s‚ in a comfortable household in Queens‚ with both parents. He used to be a gifted boy‚ with an ambition for songwriting. With time‚ Greg started to question the principles and conventions of his life with parents; a teenager in the late sixties‚
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in cognitive psychology is that of Phineas Gage. A man who suffered from an injury to his prefrontal lobes thirty years before the field of Psychology even began (Moulin‚ 2006). However‚ psychologists’ continue to study his brain and the effects of his injury and its role in cognitive functions years later. Phineas Gage was a foreman at a railroad who suffered damage to his prefrontal lobes as a result of an accidental explosion in the year 1848. This explosion caused an iron bar about a meter
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brain that support certain cognitive functions. For example‚ the area in the brain that is more dorsal and anterior than any other area in the brain is known as the frontal lobe. According to Grieve (2010)‚ the frontal lobe supports many cognitive functions. Examples of the cognitive functions that are supported in the frontal lobe are elimination of inappropriate social responses‚ understanding impending outcomes‚ and blunting emotions (Grieve‚ 2010). Another area in the brain that supports cognitive
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This evening we are going to address the subject of associations and how the people that you choose to associate with will affect your life on this earth and in the life to come. We will also discuss how whom you associate with can affect your health and wellbeing. In Messages to Young People pg. 31‚ Ellen White makes a statement about associations‚ and the affect they can have on your life. “O that every one might realize that he is the arbiter of his own destiny! Your happiness for this life
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The Brain and Behavior In the four lobes of the brain‚ temporal lobe is of them. Cerebral cortex the major part of which this lobe is part of. It is on the lower side of both cerebral hemispheres on each side. This lobe has different functions‚ mainly auditory detection‚ keeping memory and emotional perception. The hippocampus happens to be an area of the brain that consolidates information from brain. The damage to this lobe is mainly linked to the impairment of an individual
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and if it did‚ how and what areas of the brain did it affect. In this case‚ if the “miracle” drug targeted the frontal lobe some possible consequences would be problems with motor functions‚ issues with problem solving skills‚ issues with memory and language‚ and changes in emotional control that could cause impulsive and rash behavior. If the drug only affected the occipital lobe it would cause the loss of visual capability‚ loss of ability to identify colors‚ and it could cause hallucinations. If
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frontal lobes don’t fully develop until they are in there twenties. For females‚ they aren’t developed until about twenty-one and for males‚ the frontal lobe isn’t developed until they are about twenty-five. The frontal lobe is what gives a person the ability to determine what is wrong and what is right. It helps people make decisions and helps recognize future consequences resulting from current actions. Basically it’s what makes a person human. At the age of sixteen‚ the frontal lobe is not
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