Question

• What are three (3) facts you learned about the brain that you didn't know before? Please be sure to provide examples.
• Why do you personally think that learning more about the brain is helpful in studying psychology? Please be sure to provide examples.
• If you could choose any nervous system disorder to study, which disorder would you choose, and why? Look up three (3) facts about your chosen disorder to share with your classmates.

Answer 1

The three facts i learned about brain are written below

Different types of memory - In the beginning I thought memory is a single type of phenomena. But now I have learned that it is more complex and is divided into three types .

• Sensory
• Long term
• Short term

Emotional region - I learned about the emotion powerhouse of the brain that is hypothalamus and how it controls and generates emotions .I learned that it is associated with emotions such as pleasure or pain. aversion , unsatisfaction .

Cerebral localization - One more important thing I have learned is how the different parts of the brain contribute to different functions . An injury to the one part of the brain does not affect the other as neurons get conditioned to the situation . This I have learned from the famous Phineas Gage case in which an iron rod went through his brain .

It is very important to study brian in the field of psychology as it helps us to understand the complex behaviors which individuals show . It helps us to understand how individuals perform different functions in everyday life and which part of the brain is involved in it. For example a person suffering from mood disorder can be analyzed by examining the hypothalamus region of the person as it is associated with emotions .Similarly a person suffering from short term memory loss . For example, the frontal lobe can provide answers for this condition .

Alzheimer's disease

• It leads to losing the sense of smell
• If you suffering from heart disease then you're at great risk of AD
• AD is more common in women because brain shrinkage takes place much faster in women .