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A Dyslexia Overview

and complicated. II. What is Dyslexia? Not too long ago, a committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands met regarding th...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Poem #632

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

Developing Children's Memory by Using Music

planets from the sun for instance memorize this sentence: Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes (thus Mercury,...

Brain Dominance and Various Learning Styles

dominant student (Freed and Parsons, 1997). However, this traditional way of teaching does not take into account -- at any point -...

2 Poems By Emily Dickinson

she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...

Mental States' Presence and Artificial Intelligence

In five pages this paper considers a person with an electronic brain and whether that can be regarded as possessing a mental state...

Benefits of Acquiring Another Language

Recent research has found that parts of the brain grow when adults learn another language, which would make this endeavor very hel...

Disability and Information Processing

This research paper focuses on the topic of information processing and how it is relevant to dyslexia and traumatic brain injury. ...

What Causes Birth Defects

A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects/congenital abnormalities. It could also related to the pregnant woman bein...

To Live or Not to Live? and Coma

This paper deals with the issue of traumatic brain injury and coma, which includes the trauma of families facing the decision as t...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

Biology as it Relates to Loss of Brain Functions

This 3 page paper provides different examples of how Biology can be used to improve memory function after a brain injury. This pap...

Human Explicit Memory and Advancement of Converging Scientific Evidence

this topic, the term "awareness" generally refers to explicit memory (Sigalovsky, 2003). Implicit memory refer to "change in perfo...

Religious Experience and the Brain

understandings, such as the idea that "the role of personal beliefs, expectations and experiences may interject bias into the inte...

Apple as a Religion

up their brand. This is true for the Apple Company in general. The introduction of iPod gadget, iTunes, iPhone and iPad all supp...

The Perception of the Senses

tastes which are described appear to be experienced in similar ways. For example, those who can taste PCT1 and PROP2 all describe ...

Illegal Drugs and Their Impact

a variety of legal prescriptions under false pretenses, one is actually taking drugs illegally. Similarly, teenagers are no allowe...

Traumatic Brain Injury, Remediation

to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...

Death and Brain Death Criteria

In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...

Parkinson's Disease and PT Treatments

In nine pages this paper discusses how Parkinson's disease symptoms can be alleviated through various types of physical therapy ap...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

Gender, Brain Structure, and Sexual Dimorphism

brain volume among primates in her work in the early 1980s, for example, Milton (1981) speculated as to whether lifeways such as f...

Gender Neuroarchitectural and Brain Structural Differences

gender identity, and sexual orientation, but also as they relate to "the prevalence of psychiatric and neurological diseases". ...

Simon Baron Cohen's Autism Theories

who is so totally into his own world, that he literally cannot react to those from the outside. As with any learning disability h...

A Brain Research Article

of Julie through her learning process. Secondary claims presented by Jensen include his belief that neurological functioning and...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

Emotion, Muscles, and the Human Brain

function in the release of hormones, those chemicals which act as messengers between endocrine glands and various cells throughout...

The Connection between Repressed Memories and Brain Lateralization

to suppress the right side which gives an immediate response. One experiment involved the use of chicks and the way that social pe...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

Memory and Brain Effects of Classical Music

two separated mood dimensions - arousal and pleasantness - as they related to mood-dependent memory (MDM), having respondents spea...