Healthy humans use all of their brain. There is no part of the brain that goes unused. Certain tasks work certain parts of the brain more, but they all play important roles, as explained by neurobiologist Dr. Eric Chudler. Brain maps, as found in modern anatomy books, indicate that each part of the brain has a specific function essential to a healthy human. Such a wonderful article about brain use. Debbie Post Author 3 years ago Reply. Thank you, Santosh!
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Excellent article. Alana Gilbert 4 years ago Reply. Hasta 4 years ago Reply. In summary, you should describe in detail the behavioral consequences that the damage would have for you. You will be broken up into groups of six.
Each of you will be assigned a brain part. Just count off and see which brain part you get to have damaged. Use the table below. Read the textbook description of these structures and their function. Be sure to cite any external sources you use. Note to teachers: There is nothing sacred about this set of brain structures or this set of video resources.
Feel free to alter either. Your written responses are due by class time. On that day, you will explain what you have found with the members of your group. Bring copies to share with them in addition to the copy you will turn in to me. Your answers should be based on information from credible sources. A good answer will reflect a thorough understanding of concepts, critical reflection and clear, coherent, persuasive arguments.
Clarity, organization, and writing style count as well as references and content. Taylor is at a party. Although normally easy going, the drug causes Taylor to become loud, aggressive, and violent. Taylor gets into an argument with other partygoers and assaults a couple of them before being subdued.
Taylor is arrested, but once the drug wears off Taylor is appalled by the violence and deeply remorseful about the incident. Should Taylor be arrested and tried for the assault?
Why or why not? If yes, would you vote to convict if you were on the jury? If Taylor is convicted, should Taylor be incarcerated for the assault and for how long? Explain your reasoning at each step. Taylor is normally easy going but over a period of months, becomes progressively more violent and aggressive.
Finally, Taylor gets into an argument with other people at a party and assaults a couple of them before being subdued. Taylor is appalled by the violence and deeply remorseful about the incident. Did you react differently to the two scenarios?
How is the first scenario different from the second one, or are they fundamentally the same? Your answers to these questions bear on key questions of human nature. Do people really have free will or are they bound by their brain activity? It bears on how we view the causes of crime and other kinds of antisocial behavior. It has important implications on the question of personal responsibility in society. Do we always hold people personally responsible for their actions? The brain is extremely good in compensation.
Other nerve cells are able to take over the tasks of damaged nerve cells, like in a soccer game: If one player gets the red card, the other players take over his role and compensate for his absence. Thereby the team probably might not play as well as before, but it can still play and go for goals.
It might also look as if the played with the red card or the damaged part of the brain respectively actually was not used at all. So far, electrical stimulation of parts of the brain during neurosurgery has failed to reveal any dormant brain area where no perception, emotion or movement can be elicited through the application of these tiny currents.
This can be done with patients under local anaesthetic, because there are no pain receptors in the brain. Furthermore, neuroscientists were able to localize psychological functions to certain brain areas with the help of other methods, like EEG electroencephalography , MEG magnetencephalography , PET Positron Emission Tomography or fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging. Hence, no inactive areas have been observed in the brain. Even during sleep, no brain area is completely inactive. On the contrary, desiderative activity in certain brain regions would be indicative of a serious malfunction.
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