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…in today’s Middle East). An animal living 2.4 to 1.6 million years ago. Relatively half the body size of a modern man and also brain size to body ratio was about half. I am not sure whether to believe the “brain size to body ratio” theory. Homo Habilis were…

…around to make sure an accident didn't happen. This happens when a person has a diagnosis of OCD. About one million kids and teens, both boys and girls, have OCD in the U.S. <Tab/> "In OCD, it is as though the brain gets stuck on a particular…

…. The slitter has become numb to killing the cows to the point where he doesn't even hesitate to kill the cows. Like the German soldiers who called the Jews units, the workers never call the animals cows. The reason for this is that the brain makes it easier to kill…

…has shown. Most of the ability to make and use tools and other objects comes from the large size and complexity of the human brain. through human evolution the size of the brain has tripled. The increase in brain size may be from changes in hominid…

…: A disease in which people learn to act in immoral ways. A drug is any chemical agent that affects biological function. Some act in the brain, others in organs, and some in several parts of the body at the same time. A psychotropic drug is one that acts…

…occur many years after the first infection. The Bio-Chemical Theory suggests that schizophrenia is caused by mixed up signals to the brain. When something acts upon one of our senses, electrical impulses are sent to the brain. These impulses allow us to feel…

…for examining brain structure in vivo were introduced in the late 1970s that schizophrenia was thought to be due to 'organic' brain changes. Previously it was a "general feeling that...it was considered a purely 'functional' disease" (Strange, 1992). The initial…

…was even described as “Alzheimer’s in fast forward (Wlalzek).” The symptoms and pathology of both diseases overlap. There can be spongy changes in the brain (a classic effect of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) in Alzheimer's disease, for example, and senile…

…Males and Females have the same structures within the brain, though particular structures differ in size, one structure, the Third Inistitial Nucleus of the Anterior Hypothalamus (INAH 3) is generally larger in the male population (LeVay, 1991) except…

…. The superego is the part of the brain that holds a person back from committing an action. Both the action and consequences are thought about before the act is done. These three mental states occur in all people, but especially within Hester Prynne from The Scarlet…