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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Adhd
1,998 wordsAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder without the Hyperactivity (ADD) is a condition of the brain that makes it difficult for children to control their behavior in school and social settings. This condition is also called by various names: hyperactivity, minimal brain dysfunction, minimal brain damage and hyper kinetic syndrome. In 1968 the name was changed to hyperkinectic, meaning wildly fast-paced or excited, reaction of childhood. The focus was on Hype...
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Prefrontal Cortex Identical Twins
1,269 wordsSchizophrenia is a disease that has plagued societies around the world for centuries. It is characterized by the presence of both positive and negative symptoms. (Positive symptoms-altered behaviors ie excited motor activity, hallucinations, incoherent thoughts and speech, negative symptoms - the lack of behavior ie emotion lack of speech, and lack of emotion. Not all schizophrenic patients will exhibit all of these symptoms. There has been much debate as to the causes of schizophrenia. While so...
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Prefrontal Cortex Intimate Relationships
980 wordsThis article is from the April 2003 issue of Psychology Today. In chapter 2, behavior is the main topic. Behavior is a bit unexplainable, but it can be put into form of patterns or predictions. Also, behavior is uncontrolled, but can be changed to a small degree with the use of medicine or a good diet. This article "Fighting Crime One Bite At A Time" tells how a good diet can maybe decrease the number of rule breaking by prisoners in jail. This article relates how changing ones nutrition can cha...
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Frontal Lobe Prefrontal Cortex
1,936 wordsRunning head: SEXUAL PREDATORS BRAIN DAMAGE AND CHILD ABUSE Sexual Predators - Brain Damage and Child Abuse August 04, 2008 Sexual Predators Brain Damage and Child Abuse Introduction Despite numerous theories of sex offending, there is no generally accepted scientific substantiation of why sexual predators behave so. It is very likely that there are a number of independent and different causes, including those caused by brain impairment and brain damage. In case it is true, it suggests that a va...
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Prefrontal Cortex Sexual Predators
1,920 words... the New Jersey Medical School in Newark, claims that there is a high probability that violent impulses originate in the hypothalamus, amygdala, and periaqueductal gray area (Foreman, 2002). As this occurs, different parts of the hypothalamus are likely to be involved in different types of emotions and/ or violence (premeditated type, cold type, or impulsive actions). In addition, some new studies present more detailed conclusions. Thus, for example, according to Dr. Ronald Schouten, a psychi...
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Prefrontal Cortex Stephen Kings
1,720 words... in the brain that result in changes in behavior as well. Stress increases the size of the amygdala (as evidenced by the increased display of fear in rats) and causes shrinkage of another part of the brain called the hippocampus. Brain changes can also be observed in studies of patients with major depression. Stresses early in life such as low birth weight, low socioeconomic status, a negative home environment, and physical or sexual abuse can influence an individual's physical response to st...
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Frontal Lobe Prefrontal Cortex
2,875 wordsHave We Learned Anything New About The Have We Learned Anything New About The Functions Of The Frontal Lobe In The Last Five Years? Discuss The frontal lobe is thought to be the latest area of the brain to develop and is largest in humans. It is therefore suggested that the area plays a key role in differentiating humans from other hominids (Crespo-Facorro et al 1999; Faster, 1997). For well over a century research has investigated the functioning of the frontal region of the human brain (Della ...
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Cycles Per Second Thought And Action
4,671 wordsINTRODUCTION Psychology Psychology INTRODUCTION The study of the way people think and behave is called psychology. The field of psychology has a number of sub-disciplines devoted to the study of the different levels and contexts of human thought and behavior. Social psychology, for example, deals with human thought and action in a social context, while physiological psychology is concerned with thought and behavior at the level of neurology. Another division of psychology, comparative psychology...
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