women my age, so the doctor asked many probing questions and concluded they wanted to do some additional test. This was the evening that I received my very first spinal tap. The spinal tap concluded that I had excessive cerebral spinal fluid on my brain. After spending three more days in the hospital I was introduced to my new neurologist. Before going home I was educated on my new diagnosis of intracranial hypertension. The doctors gave me a lot of reading material, and a follow up appointment with
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Meningitis is one of the fastest spreading diseases as it is an infection on the lining and fluid around the brain and spinal column. The cause of this disease may be bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic. The most often of these is viral meningitis, which causes hearing loss. The hearing loss caused by meningitis is the body’s reaction to the disease during the
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3 Thinking Techniques to Improve Your Intellectual Horsepower Here are 3 simple thinking techniques I tend to use each day. There are some more advanced thinking techniques, but here I’m boiling down to a set of 3 you can use today. In fact, you can even use them while you read this post. I’ll go through the thinking techniques in order from simpler to more complex, so you can use them right away. For the sake of this exercise, let’s think of "thinking" as simply asking and answering questions
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Cord 3.2 Cells of the Nervous System 3.5 Five Major Divisions of the Brain 3.3 Neuroanatomical Techniques and Directions 3.6 Major Structures of the Brain ISBN 0-558-78571-9 Biopsychology, Eighth Edition, by John P.J. Pinel. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. 3.1 ■ General Layout of the Nervous System I n order to understand what the brain does, it is first necessary to understand what it is—to know the names and locations
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Study Guide Essentials of Psychology By Robert G. Turner Jr., Ph.D. About the Author Robert G. Turner Jr., Ph.D. has more than 20 years of teaching and education-related experience. He has taught seventh-grade science, worked as a curriculum developer for the Upward Bound Program, and taught sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and honors seminars at the university level. As a professional writer, he has written nonfiction books, journal and magazine articles, novels, and stage plays
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BRAIN ABSCESS Definition -an infection in the brain that is encapsulated (confined within its own area) and localized to one or more areas inside of the brain -a collection of immune cells, pus, and other material in the brain, usually from a bacterial or fungal infection -occur in all children, but are more common in young school-aged children and occur twice as often in males than in females -usually associated with congenital heart disease in young children Etiology -Direct extension
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B12, I'm getting Shrink-brain." In a discovery by Oxford University recently their findings revealed that there is a clear link between low quantities of vitamin B12 and brain shrinkage. Scientists who were using physical checks, memory tests, and brain scans to examine 107 people from the ages of 61 to 87. The same group of volunteers were later retested and the researchers found that those with the lowest levels of the B12 vitamin were also found to have smaller brains, conclusively confirming
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Not Proud.” Gunther entails the wondrous accomplishments Johnny made, along with his terrific fight against a brain tumor. Throughout the whole book, Gunther describes Johnny’s attitude as positively upbeat and wittily sarcastic, even though Johnny seemed to already have accepted his death early on. Gunther starts the memoir by informing the reader that Johnny dies after fighting a brain tumor for fifteen months; then, goes on to describe Johnny’s life as a whole. Johnny was sixteen years old, attending
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Psych 100, Notes Sept. 6, 2012 History and Perspectives * Definitions of Psychology * The science of mental life (William James, 1890) * “The study of human or animal behaviour” (Webster’s Dictionary 1988) * “The scientific study of behavior and mind” “The scientific study of behaviour and its causes” (Passer & Smith) * Roots of the Word * Psyche – Greek for soul * Logos – Greek for the study of a subject * Related Fields * Philosophy
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Biopsychology The brain is the control centre for the body and it sits in the skull at the top of the spinal chord. The brain is so complex that doctors and scientists still don’t know what some parts do. The brain is made up of different sections consisting of the frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes. Memory Part of the brain that is responsible for memory is also known as the hippocampus, it is located within the temporal lobes, adjacent to the amygdale. The hippocampus is involved
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