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…"LATERAL ASYMMETRY IN INTENSITY OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION" People have always been puzzled by the functionality of the human brain. However, it was only over a century ago, that after the discoveries of French surgeon Broca (1860) -examining brain damage…

…will examine the aspects of the brain relating to the physical attributes that some insist make a human mind different and therefore unattainable by a computer. Anything that occurs in the brain requires a firing of synapses. This can be understood by thinking…

…Autism is not a disease, but a developmental disorder of brain function. People with classical autism show three types of symptoms: impaired social interaction, problems with verbal and nonverbal communication and imagination, and unusual or severely…

…What is autism? Autism is not a disease, but a developmental disorder of brain function. People with classical autism show three types of symptoms: impaired social interaction, problems with verbal and nonverbal communication and imagination…

…in the past would perform frontal lobotomies, which permanently disconnected several sections of the brain. Then in 1938, shock treatment was invented. Although not as effective as medication, this treatment is seldom used to treat schizophrenia today. Individuals…

…and negative symptoms. Any given individual with schizophrenia may have one or more of its major symptoms, yet there is not one single symptom or brain abnormality shared by all people with the disorder (Wood). Positive symptoms or "psychotic" symptoms, including…

…Cerebral (Cerebral- Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum) Palsy (Palsy- A weakening or debilitating influence) is a disorder usually caused by brain damage occurring at or before birth and marked by muscular impairment. Often it is accompanied…

…. It has been many continuous observation that during sleep when the nasal passages get blocked due to the degree that one can not breath and the oxygen intake to the brain is then reduced to a dangerously low level, the sleeping brain will go first…

…that the continuity can be created by in some way recording all my my memories, ideas, personality traits, and thoughts and then putting all the information into the clone's brain. This sort of recording was done with Lister in the television show Red Dwarf, and at first…

…common or most important characteristics of dyslexia. Experts say dyslexia has little to do with recognizing the visual form of words; rather, the brains of people with dyslexia are wired differently, making it difficult for them to break the letters…