THE TEENAGE BRAIN

          The movie that we saw during class was about teenage brain. Teenagers see thing differently than adults because there frontal lobe is growing. Teenagers normally are thinking that parents want to bother them and they do not know anything. It is no like that teenagers are seeing think differently because they are developing their brain, normally it stops to developed when you have 20 years. Teenagers do not receive too many hours of sleep; they should be receiving at lets 9 1/2 hours of sleep. 

        When you are a teenager you should be focus in school and doing think that are right for you because this is the stage where what you do is going to be someone that you can do well in your life. For example, if you read a lot then you are going to be an excellent reader and have a lot of knowledge. If you have a teenager that only plays videogame then he will be good at it but he will have some difficulty in other things that will help him in life. In other words you have to do what is right for you like playing sports and reading books. 

       The most important thing to do when you are a teenager is to sleep and to read and play sports. 

HOW DOES OUR BRAIN WORK?

The cerebral hemisphere is divided into two hemispheres, the right and the left. Each side specialized in some behavior.

The difference between the left and the right are the left controls speech, language, math, logic and all the movements on the right side of your body. The right controls the abilities, visual imagery, face recognition, music and the muscles on the left.

The corpus collasum is the communication between both the right and the left hemispheres. The thinking band are in about 200-250 million nerves fibers.

Paul Broca discovered the "Broca´s Area", is a language area also called the "speech motor area."  It has to do with the left side. He made an experiment on 2 patients to help him figure out this area of the brain. This area is located in the frontal lobe, in the middle cerebral artery and in the superior sagittal sinus vein. This area can be damage with a brain tumor.

Roger Sperry discovered the "Split Brain". "Split Brain" has to do with the corpus collasum. It the brain splits is cannot communicate and it losses the communication between the cerebral hemispire. For example if you have the "Split Brain" you will not be able to name the object that you are seen. This is because the left controls the talking and the right the visualize, then the hemisphere will not be able to communicate and you will not know what the other side of your body is doing.

Karl Wernicke discovered the "Wernicke Area". This area also has to do with language. It is located in the temporal lobe on the left side of the brain. This area is mostly related to the "Broca´s Area" both have to do alot with speech. This area can be damage by language development or usage being impaired.

The lobe that is responsible for the vision is the occipital lobe. The Temporal lobe is responsible for language. The Parietal lobe is responsible for performing math and the frontal lobe is responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control.


http://psychology.about.com/od/windex/g/def_wernickesar.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/broca´s-area
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/split.html

PHINEAS GAGE!

    Phineas Gage was born in July 9, 1823 he was an American railroad construction foreman. Handsome...well dressed and confident, even proud." He was remembered for his survival in an accident which a large iron rod that pasted though his head, it destroyed most of the frontal lobe. This affected his personality and his behavior. He also lot the ability to speak and to follow directionsHis friend described him as "no longer Gage".

      On September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage was 25 years old; he was building the Ruthland and Burlington Railroad in Vermont. Gage work consisted on putting blasting powder in the body of rock. The power exploded, it made the iron rod pass through his head it was an inch and fourth in (diameter), and three feet and seven inches length. The iron rod entered threw one side of his face, passing through the back of the left eye and put at the top of the head.

        We learned that each parts of the brain have a function, it showed the way the frontal lobe works and  that we can survive with a damage in the brain.

        The localization of the brain are the motor is the control of voluntary movement. Somatosensory is the bodily sensations, including heat, cold, pain, pressure, and body position. Vision is the ability to see. Auditory is the ability to hear. Speech production ("motor" speech) is the Ability to produce speech sounds. Speech planning and comprehension ("sensory" speech) is the Ability to plan and understand speech. Biologically-based motives is the Control of drives to satisfy basic biological needs, such as hunger and thirst. Limbic functions is the Regulation of emotions.

                  "The left hemisphere specializes in analytical thought. The left hemisphere deals with hard facts: abstractions, structure, discipline and rules, time sequences, mathematics, categorizing, logic and rationality and deductive reasoning, knowledge, details, definitions, planning and goals, words, productivity and efficiency, science and technology, stability, extraversion, physical activity, and the right side of the body. The left hemisphere is emphasized in our educational system and in our society in general, for better or for worse; as Marshall McLuhan speculated, "The day when bureaucracy becomes right hemisphere will be utopia.' "

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~bbrown/psyc1501/brain/loclat.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/the-incredible-case-of-phineas-gage/
http://www.nvcc.edu/home/elanthier/methods/case-study-samples.htm

CRIMINAL MINDS.....

                Criminal is generally referred to as offenses against the state.” Criminal can be divided in two parts it can be nature or nurture. Nature is genetic and nurture is environmental and it comes from your surroundings.

                “There is, in short, a scientific consensus that criminal and antisocial behavior has genetic as well as environmental, sources.” “Scientist also found that the genetic traits such as gender, muscularity and extra Y chromosome can increase the risk of criminal behavior. Some disagree, they say it is genetic like for example this articles that says “There cannot be a gene for crime because ´crime ´does not exist as an entity and definitely does not exist as a biological entity.” There are different opinions of this being nature or nurture because you never know where it really came from. There are also other discoveries like for example if you are being put to an adoptive family and your parents have been part of a criminal you have a higher risk of having criminal behavior. Normally fathers are the ones that are convicted for crimes. When parents are convicted many times it increases the chances of a kid to become like his father. Also if you have a twin that is diagnosed with criminal behavior it is possible the other twin could also have this risk. “As the destiny of poverty increases in cities throughout the world, so will the destiny of joblessness, crime, family dissolution, drug abuse, alcoholism, disease, and violence.” Poverty can increase your possibilities of becoming criminal. Black has a greater violent crime rate then white because of poverty and the type of neighborhood they have. It has to do a lot with how it dominates the neighborhood; they say that if it is black people than it increases the chances of poverty and of criminal. Also the neighborhood where there are more poor people because they are not educated correctly to show them how to become successful in life.


                I think that criminal minds are more of a nature thing because it how your parents behave and the people you hang out with. It also depends on the type of neigh hood you live in meaning the level of education people have. For example, if I hang out with people that do drugs more likely I’ll be just like them. I also think that this fits in nature because you are made up of DNA. That DNA is a mixture of your mother and father meaning everything they are and they do will be reflected in you some way. For example, if your father is white the probability is that you are going to be white.


                 There are many different sides to this but you can only know if you investigate and see people´s emotions and way of acting.


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"What is criminal law?".http://www.quizlaw.com/what-is-criminal-law/. September 9,2010.