THE Human Brain
...lti-step tasks such as making coffe or putting together a module airplane (this is known as sequencing), Inability to focus on a task such as writing a paper (known as attending), Difficulty with problem solving, Loss of spontaneity in interactions with others, Loss of flexibilty in thinking, Persistence of a single thought (Perservation), Inability to express language, Mood changes, Changes in social behavior, and changes in personality. Damaging your Parietal Lobe could cause such things as: Inability to attend to more than one object at a time, Inability to name an object (known as Anomia), Inability to locate the words for writing (known as Agraphia), Problems with reading, Difficulty drawing objects, Difficulty distinguishing left from right, Problems with mathematics, Lack of awareness of certain body parts and/or surrounding space that leads to difficultys in self-care, Inability to focus visual attention, and Difficultys with hand to eye coordination. Damaging the Occipital Lobe could lead to: Defects in vision, Difficulty locating objects in current environment, Difficulty identifing colors, Hallucinations, Visual illusions - inaccurately seeing objects, Inability to recognize words, Difficulty recognizing drawn objects, Inability to recognize movment of an object, and difficulty reading and writing. If you were to damage the Temporal Lobe you would get symptoms such as: Difficulty recognizing faces, Difficulty understanding spoken words, Disturbance of selective attention - visual and hearing, Difficulty identifing and verbilizing about objects, Short-term memory loss, Changes in sexual behavior, Inability to categorize objects, Right lobe damage can cause persistent talking, and Increased aggresive behavior. The effects of damaging the Brain Stem are: Decreased vital capacity for breathing - important for speech, Difficulty swallowing food and water, Difficulty of orginization and perception of environment, Problems with balance and movment, Dizziness and Nausea (known as Vertigo), and sleeping difficultys. The Cerebellum when damaged causes: Loss of ability to coordinate fine movements, Loss of ability to walk, Inability to reach out and grab objects, Tremors, Dizziness, Slurred speech, and Inability to make rapid movements. The first brain related disease I would like to talk about is Cerebral Palsy. This is a disease that affects thousands of babies and children every year it is a life time disease that can not be cured. It slows a childs first steps movement or speech or all of them. It is not contagious. The word Cerebral is used to identify that it is a brain dissorder and the word palsy identifys that it is a weakness or a problem. The part of the brain that this efects is the brain stem and parts that control muscle movement like the Cerebellum. The next diseases I would like to talk about is Dementia, this is the chronic loss of memory capacity due to an organic cause. The most common known Dementia is known as Alzheimer's disease. It is also not contagious but can be passed on the genes. This can occur because of blood supply behing cut off to the brain. Encephalitis is a disease that literaly means inflamation of the brain. This is caused by a virus. Epilepsy is the next disease I would like to speak of. Thsi cause convulsions of the body and is caused by electrical discharges in the Central Nervous System. The last disease i would like to speak of is Tuberous Sclerosis which is a genetic disorder that causes benign tumors on various organs, including the brain, kidneys, heart, skin and lungs. Seizures also occur in some people with TSC, as does mental retardation. I would like to spend a little bit of tim talking about why I choose to do this topic and what interested me about it. I choose to do this topic because I think that these are very interesting and unique things in your body that you use everyday and never even stop and take time to relize that you use them or take the time to relize that they are even there. I also would like to be some kind of surgen or sceintist when i grow up and I think this is very good information to know in those fields of study. Without knowing this kind of stuff you could never hope to take the M-cats and pass with a high grade. I also know that i may be missing certain parts of the brain in this paper that I should have put in or some serious diseases that I really should get to know about but I think that I may learn new things from my science teachers in the future that has somthing to do with ...