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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Food, Obesity, and Psychology
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"Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we’ve built around them.” -Jamie Ol...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Schizophrenia
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(This image is from here !) These days when most people think of this mental disorder would probably jump to the movie "...
Hippo + Campus = Hippocampus
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(this image is from here !) The hippocampus is an area of the brain that is for storing and retrieving memories, or it's a ...
Monday, April 23, 2012
Wernicke's & Broca's Aphasia
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Wernicke's Aphasia is a language deficiency that is the cause of left-hemisphere damage. The area of the brain where this occ...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Contralateral and the Corpus Collosum
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(This image is from here .) The corpus collosum is a bundle of fibers that connects the left and right hemisphere of the brain....
Oxytocin, the love hormone
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Oxytocin, as described by James W. Kalat, is a hormone that is released within the brain that is also a neurotransmitter which is impor...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Memory, oh sweet memory!
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There are various types of memories that psychologists refer to and they are episodic, explicit, implicit, semantic, short-term, lo...
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