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…EPILEPSY EPILEPSY, A CHRONIC BRAIN DISORDER THAT BREIFLY INTERRUPTS THE NORMAL ELECTRECAL ACVTIVITY OF THE BRAIN AND THEN LEADS TO SEIZURES. SEIZURES ARE CHARACTERIZED BY MANY DIFFERENT SYMPTOMS INCLUDING, UNCONTROLLED MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY…

…The Enlightened Machine Brain Science, also known as nerve science, has been classified as an adventure. It mostly deals with our behavior, as well as speech, movement, coordination, and basically any part of our life in general is associated…

…sleep. Since the beginning of time history is filled with people fascinated with sleep. Does anybody ever think about why we sleep or what goes on to our brains while we sleep? Well before the twentieth century sleep was thought of as just a period of restful…

…on the brain that people drink (Jones 92). After one or two drinks of alcohol a person can feel the effects. Its effect on the brain is different at a low concentration. It can serve as a stimulant of some functions at a low concentration but, as the concentration…

…Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness like awake, asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating…

…Nerve Cell <Tab/>The human body has over 220 cell types. One type lies in the brain and nervous system, the neuron. Nerve cells help with cognitive functions and help control automated functions in the body, without them your abilities…

…). Functionalists believe that we will be able to understand the brain on the nature of the theoretical interface between neuroscience and psychology (Churchland). Pojman says that functionalism is the “heir to behaviourism”. Pojman also states that behaviourists either…

…In Hilary Putnam's, "The Nature of Mental States", he deals with the question of whether or not pain is a brain state or "Is the property of having a pain at time t a brain state?" (Putnam). Throughout the article, Putnam goes on to argue that to claim…

…direct route to the brain than an injection and gives what is commonly referred to as a 'quick high'. The olfactory nerves will receive some of the cocaine particles and mistake them for smell-producing particles. The cocaine will enter the nerve and eat away…

…to the brain, perminant damage to the tissue occurs within 3-4 minuites (Bickerstaff 1987). Connsequently, the effects of a stroke may range from recovery to perminant damage to an area of the brain (infartion ) or may even result in death. Intracranial accidents…