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…. Good cannot exist without the presence of evil. 3. The body cannot function without the mind, and so forth. e. Materialism i. Psychologists say that our mental activity is rooted in the brain. ii. Dominant perspective with modern psychologists. iii. Tends…

…Dopamine, an inhibitory neurotransmitter, travels across the synapse and affects brain processes that control voluntary movement, emotional response, learning and memory, and the ability to experience pleasure and pain. There are several ways…

…Personal Identity There are many different theories on personal identity. Some say that identity lies in memories; others say it lies in the brain; while still others say it lies in the body itself, DNA, and so…

…Alzheimer's, the disease of the degeneration of the brain, was identified in 1907 by German physician Alois Alzheimer. Four million Americans suffer from the disease which deprives the victimof the ability to remember, think, reason, and eventually…

…Dreams Dreams, why do we dream. I thing we dream because we are thinking while we are sleeping and our brain puts those thought into a weird movie in our head. Some people think dreams are the keys to lifes problem. They say…

…a piece of information is encoding. It is the process of translating information into neural codes that will be retained in memory. In other words, it is first getting the information into one's brain. The brain encodes sensory information (sound, visual, touch…

…and adolescents with autistic disorder also have mental retardation or other problems with their brain function or structure.         Recent studies estimate that as many as 14 children out of 10,000 may have autism or a related condition. About 125,000…

…can understand. 5) "Mental" states and their resulting actions are products of the center of activity (brain). 6) To understand, thoughts must be produced by the brain. 7) A computer's mental states and events are controlled by a program…

…to the biological systems and functions of the brain. There is more to this such as, cultural surroundings and economic advantages that have a role in the way that society views men and women. Differences between men and women go as far back as infants. Female babies…

…Alzheimer's disease is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain that causes increasing loss of memory and other mental abilities. The disease attacks few people before age sixty, but it occurs in about twenty percent of people who live to age…