Teenage Brains

As known teenage is a time in your life were your starting to change in all aspects physically and emotionally. This is a stage were you think that since you’re a teenager you feel big and think that parents are simply annoying and they just bug you when they are simply trying to help, but when you are a teenage you do not understand that way. This has much to do with the development of the Frontal lobe because this is the part that controls your behaviors, manners, actions toward others etc., so you can conclude that in a teenage time when you think this way of your parents is that your immature cause still your frontal lobe has still yet not fully developed.  In some occasion parents just do not understand “teenage” and they get angry and then the teenage get angrier and then this big fight starts. But well, scientist have the idea ad think that one of the causes why teenagers ages are like this is because they actually do not have the right and correct time of sleep, and the time of sleep is very important because it influences the development of your brain. to be on time, to be responsible, and to be on task you must sleep. No one other than teenagers could understand, that’s just a time in life that everyone passes through but eventually by the time you grow and the experience life you get more and more mature as well your brain starts to develop even more.

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Nature vs Nuture

            For over many years this topic of nature vs. nurture has been debated. As know nature is something that you bring with you from birth that is caused by your genetics, and nurture is what you form through your life and the environment you grow. Where does your intelligence come from is it nature or nurture? In my opinion I think intelligence has a great part of nature, something you come with, that its an ability to have a bigger capacity to store things in your brain, or even have the ability of learning things faster and that they actually stay in your brain, for example an ability of having photographic memory cause that’s something that I think you develop through your growth. In the other hand I cant leave behind nurture, I also think intelligence my included a small percent of nurture, because through life you learn knew things and makes your brain practice or even just makes you a disciplined person. Its hard to identify were does intelligence comes from.

            After researched of many types of debate and scientist opinions I could come to a conclusion that Scientist have been debated this topic for many years. Some scientist actually state and confirm that intelligence comes from Nature because of what some scientist tested and sated that “On the genetics side, a great deal of adoptive study has provided evidence of a degree of genetic influence to our intelligence. Using studies that involved twins separated at birth, and those separated and adopted, psychologists were able to eliminate many of the confounds that had previously caused other studies to fall apart. These studies found that adopted children tended to have more in common as far as IQ with their biological mother instead of their adoptive parent”, what we can tell about this investigation that yes intelligence may be partially genetic because cause you should can get born with their intelligent of mathematics for example. Not living behind the best example is Albert Einstein which they found a specific part of his brain was larger relating to spatial intelligence, and this made him be higher of intelligence in this designated area. This can support my idea of thinking that intelligence really does come from your genes, but eventually through time your intelligence may get higher or lower depending the type of environment you start to develop yourself since your little, cause its said that your brain captures more when you little than when your older. We have so many capacities in our brain that we don’t even use half of it. All of use have intelligence the difference some of us are born with a higher lever and keep on developing through your growth and other simply are born with a small level and just doesn’t care on getting to practice it.

In conclusion from the research I can conclude that intelligence is from nature but you have partial and short amount added by the nurture and by what you learn from your environment.

Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage was a minor man, who has been a survival of such a brain damage. The story of these famous man consists in that he had this accident in which was performing his usual work when an accident occurred. His routine was to add gunpowder, fuse and sand together then compress the mixture with a large iron rod, Phineas forgot to add the sand one time and the explosive mixture blew to his face resulting in the iron rod piercing his head. It entered the side of his head and went out at the top. The iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior—effects so profound that friends saw him as "no longer Gage." What we can learn from this accident is that the frontal lobe controls your emotions, manners, the way of treating other, etc. I can tell this because before the accident Gage was a kind man whom everyone liked to be around, and after this incident that he damage the frontal lobe his actions toward people started to change as said people couldn’t even recognize him. Brain Lateralization is the idea that the two halves of the brain's cerebral cortex -- left and right -- execute different functions, and the Brain Localization different parts of the brain carry out different functions (e.g., vision, control of voluntary movement, understanding speech, etc.) and, conversely, that not all parts of the brain do the same thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~bbrown/psyc1501/brain/loclat.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function

The Brain

1. What does the word "hemisphere" refer to when talking about the brain?

When talking about the brain “hemisphere” refers to the two different ways the brain is divided the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere.

2. What are the major differences between the left and right sides of the brain?

The Right side:                  

·       Intuition

·       Creativity

·       Art

·       Music

The Left side:

·       Analytical thoughts

·       Logic

·       Science

·       Math

3. What is the corpus coliseum?

Are the two parts of the brain (left and right) that connect to communicate and interact with each other

4. Explain the study performed by Paul Broca in which he discovered "Broca's Area."

The Brocas area is located in the frontal lobe and it is responsible for speech production. language processing, and language comprehension, as well as controlling facial neurons. First discovered in 1861, Broca's area was named after Pierre Paul Broca. Broca discovered the area after studying the brain of a patient with a speech impairment after his death.

5. Explain the study conducted by Roger Sperry in regard to "split brain."

This has to do with the corpus collasum. Robert Sperry was who conducted the landmark split-brain experiments. He discovered that human beings are of two minds. He found that the human brain has specialized functions on the right and left, and that the two sides can operate practically independently

6. Explain the study conducted by Karl Wernicke which led to the discovery of Wernicke's Area."

Wernicke's area is the region of the brain where spoken language is understood. Neurologist Carl Wernicke is credited with discovering the function of this brain region whom he examined a patient after his death. Which is located in the temporal Lobe

7. Which lobe is most responsible for vision?

The occipitial Lobe

8. Which lobe is most responsible for hearing and language?

The Temporal Lobe

9. Which lobe is most responsible for performing math calculations?

The Frontal Lobe

10. Which lobe is most responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control?

The Frontal Lobe

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-brocas-area.htm

http://biology.about.com/od/anatomy/p/wernicke.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain 

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro00/web1/Vasiliadis.html