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brain
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| phineas gage context | working on new railway, vermont 1949. poured gunpowder into hole and jmmed with 6kg 1m pole, it exploded and went through his cheek and out his skull. survived. lost his job & personality |
| phineas gage affect | Was able to talk sensibly and regained full strength his personality changed completely - he went from being a polite pleasant hard-working man to one that woas loud impulsive and dishonest. He couldnt organise himself |
| phineas gage what we learned | the front part of the brain is important for planning, self control and personality see the effect of people who have had strokes. It causes brain tissue to die. A stroke in right hemisphere effect left side of body |
| Split brain studies context | • These are people who have had surgery to reduce severe epileptic seizures • In this surgery, the corpus callosum is cut to stop the brain activity associated with seizures from spreading from one hemisphere to the other Sperry and Gazzaniga |
| Split brain studies what we learned | discover that the left hemisphere of the brain is dominant for verbal tasks and the right hemisphere is dominant for non-verbal tasks - if a corpus callosum was cut, visual information could not be sent from the right to left hemisphere and vice versa |
| Split brain studies result | If the picture was projecteed to her right visual field the patient would be able to correctly identify and answer. But if the object was projected to her left visual field she could not say what she had seen |
| • Corpus callosum | a band of neural fibres that connect the hemispheres |
| Split brain studies result continue | If she was asked to pick out what she had seen from the bunch of objects using he left hand she could do so |
| Walter freeman lobotomy context | Frontal lobotomy is an extinct procedure. It was historically performed in cases of psychiatric illness. The aim was to interupt the long tracts of the prefrontal cortex via blunt mechanical trauma |
| Walter freeman lobotomy method | a patient would be rendered unconscoius by electrooshock. Freeman would then take a sharp ice pick like instrument insert it above the patients eyeball through the orbit of the eye into the frontal lobes of the brain moving the instrument back and forth |
| Walter freeman lobotomy result | small percentage no change or improve. majority negative effects on personaltiy, empathy, ability to function. impulse inhibition, long-term planning most connection to & from prefrontal cortex & anterior part of brain severed |
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