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…One possible cause of dyslexia is that it emanates from neurological (brain) factors. This is a biological explanation. There is some evidence that dyslexic people share a group of genes on part of chromosome 6 which is close to the MHC genes…

…What you see is not always what you get. We learn to perceive or understand what we’re looking at, and we get used to how things are supposed to be. Sometimes our brains get the clues all wrong. Other times, our brains fill in the missing…

…on one side of the body. A stroke is also referred to as cerebral apoplexy and cerebrovascular accident (CVA). It is a cardiovascular disease that affects the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. It is also called a brain attack. A stroke occurs…

…that it is one of the following, a slow virus, an auto immune reaction (the body attacks itself), or a biochemical imbalance in the brain. By looking at the brains of Alzheimer patients under the microscope, researchers have found that they have abnormal deposits…

…INTRODUCTION Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is an imaging technique that plays an important role in determining brain functions and some brain disorders. It is most used by neuroscientists and psychiatrists. The purpose of this report…

…to exist without the body, but it may be impossible to exist without the brain. In his essay, Where Am I, Dennett states that “it was clear enough, then, that my current body and I could part company, but not likely that I could be separated from my brain…

…of the brain interact with memory, and finally will describe a mental illness and its ‘Biological' solution. The Nervous System The nervous system, as described in Taber's Cyclopedic Dictionary, is"a system of extremely delicate nerve cells, elaborately…

…is A) is the body directly connected to the physical (brain) events, or B) mental events are separate and through the separateness cause brain events to change their course. To understand the mind/body issue as the positivist seen it one first needs to understand what…

…possible consequences. This is why we must study and be aware of optical illusions so that we may be better prepared should we encounter one at a critical time. To better illustrate the origins of optical illusions I will review some parts of the brain…

…Anthropology- Hominids In the studies that have been done on primate and early human evolution, there is strong evidence that eating meat played a large role in increased brain size. Early plant eating hominids had a cranial capacity of about 300 cc…