Brenda Milner was known as a person who contributed to the psychological study of the brain. For six decades of studying and contributing, to our understanding of how the human brain works, even while in her nineties Brenda continues to research at the Montreal Neurological Institute. She has received over 20 honorary degrees and many influential awards that include Gairdner Foundation International and the International Balzan prize Award.
Brenda was born in England, Manchester in July 1918. She was the only child of her parent Samuel Longford and Leslie Doig. Her early years were filled with music and language arts. Her father, who was a music critic and piano teacher decided to homeschool her in German, mathematics, and in the arts.
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She decided to switch to psychology, even though her mother was upset with her daughter ambitions because psychology was unknown outside the university environment. She received a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Cambridge in 1939 where her supervisor Dr. Zangwill taught Brenda the value of studying brain lesions.(which is a region in an organ or tissue that's been damaged through injury or disease.) He showed her to Analysis disordered functions to gain insight into the functioning of normal brains.
When Brenda earned her master's degree in 1939, once world war II began instead of studying response to sensory misinformation. Brenda and her colleagues were put to distinguish pilots from bomber pilots in aptitude tests. Where she meant her soon-to-be-husband Peter Milner, who was an electrical engineer, that was recruited for the war effort. Peter and Brenda got married in 1944. Just before they left England Peter was invited to Canada to research at atomic-energy in Montreal; however, in order to succeed in academia in North America, people needed a
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Seoulville, he chose to undergo an experimental surgery, for his temporal lobes on both sides that got removed. After the surgery of epilepsy, help to stop a number of seizures he had before. While helping with his seizures, the after-effects of not being able to remember; long-term memories and capacity to learn. Although with a series of experiments Brenda learned that he was able, to train his brain with difficult learning tasks; even if he couldn't remember doing them. This gave many opportunities for treatments for illness such as brain cancer, dementia, and epilepsy. Dr. Scoville and Brenda's research were published in 1957 and came to the most cited information in the history of neuroscience. People later realized the brain was not a solitary memory system. But could change the memory research for
Jennie Wade was the only civilian to die in the battle of Gettysburg. Jennie Wade was born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and died there just twenty short years later. The battle of Gettysburg was then known as one of the bloodiest battles in the American civil war. This caused a single civilian to lose their life, Jennie Wade was that person to die at Gettysburg. Many other civilians died in the war itself, but only she died at Gettysburg.
Dr. Correia believes that if you want to be psychology make sure you like it enough to stick with it. Starting early and learning psychology as soon as possible and continuing with it would be the best advice if you want to be a psychologist. For Dr. Correia he greatly enjoys his job as a neuropsychologist. His future ambitions are to do more research on the brain. Dr. Correia made neuropsychology sound difficult but an extremely interesting and rewarding career.
Helen Frankenthaler was an American born painter, sculptor and printmaker. Frankenthaler, with two fellow artists, led the way into the development of Color Field painting, a component of Abstract Expressionism. Frankenthaler is recognized as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century as a result of her contribution of great talent and the ability to deliver beautiful and innovative works on canvas and paper. "Frankenthaler's radiant canvases are known and admired all over the world, her intimate and equally powerful works on paper are as yet unfamiliar to the majority of museum audiences (Wilkin 6)." Frankenthaler created these paper pieces with the same vivaciousness as she did with her larger works on canvas building a large collection of water colors, gouache, and mixed media pieces.
Degree from Vassar a year after working under E.B. Titchener where she was his only first and only major graduate student. She also got her Ph.D. from Cornell which was the first Ph.D. that E.B. Titchener had ever recommended. She went onto Wells College and, being the first woman to get a doctorate in the field of psychology, was a professor of psychology, philosophy, and ethics. Washburn eventually went on to be the only woman staff member at the University of Cincinnati, but quit that job and moved back to where she started at Vassar College and became a professor of Psychology there. As a fairly distinguished and well known member of the field, she was appointed as an editor of the American Psychology Association and recognized as one of the most important "men of science".
In the Ted Talk, “My stroke of insight”, the speaker Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist had undergone a stroke affecting her left hemisphere. During this process she was able to experience her brain deteriorating slowly and she was able to study it. She explains how she wanted to become a brain researcher because of her brother’s brain condition, schizophrenia. During the TedTalk she also explained her whole experience, including what it felt like, her emotions, and the world around her while having a stroke as well as the difficulties that she had encountered. Jill explains this experience as a tremendous gift.
Considering that the author of this book has the knowledge of no medical information, one question her about her knowledge. How does Patricia Cornwell know numerous facts about the human brain? How much time did she take to learn and where did she learn about medical information? A reader can assume that she has had past experience with the medical field or family members know information on the human brain. One can predict this because previous novels
Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She lived with her mother Anna Anderson, dad John Berkley and her sister’s Alyse and Ethel. She was the oldest out of the three girls. Marian always loved to sing, so when she was 6 years old she joined her church choir. When she was just 10 years old her father died, leaving her mother to raise them alone. But that didn’t stop
Alice Neel’s painting Suzanne Moss was created in 1962 using oil paint on canvas. As the title suggests, the painting depicts a woman’s portrait. Now resigning in the Chazen Museum in Madison, WI, this portrait of a woman lunging is notable for the emotional intensity it provokes as well as her expressionistic use of brush strokes and color. The scene is set by a woman, presumably Suzanne Moss, dressed in dull back and blues lounging across a seat, staring off to the side, avoiding eye contact with the viewer. The unique style and technique of portraiture captures the woman’s piercing gaze and alludes to the interior emotions of the subject. In Suzanne Moss, Alice Neel uses desultory brush strokes combined with contrast of warm and cool shadows
In 1939, Brenda received her Bachelor’s degree under the supervision of Dr. Oliver Zangwill. Dr. Zangwill taught her the value of studying brain lesions and showed her that by analyzing disordered function, much could be learned about the function of the normal brain (Worth Publishers, 2005-2008). As Brenda began work on her Master’s at Cambridge, two things happened: she became involved in a wartime project using aptitude testing to determine fighter pilots from bomber pilots; and she met Peter Milner, an electrical engineer. When Milner was invited to Canada to work with physicists on atomic research, they were married and sailed to Montreal, Quebec.
Some diseases, such as Aphonia, Aphemia, Aphasia, Alexia, Apraxia, Agnosia, Amnesia, Ataxia (Sacks 7). One of the first patients that is observed is a Dr. P, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat, whom was a great musician that had a difficult time with visual images. Dr. P can not recognize items such as his shoe, foot, or even his wife. His problem was so bad that at one point, he graded his wife’s head and tried to put it on his as if it was his hat. One interesting case of Dr. P, whom had great musical intelligence, could do anything when he was singing, but once he stopped singing, he would forget and stop whatever he was doing. In a similar case called The Lost Mariner, a 19 year old boy named Jimmie G, was the radio operator for a submarine. His does not have the ability to recall memories anytime before the 1940s. Due to this damage to his brain, he will always believe he is 19 years old, but one of the interesting parts about this case is that even though he can not remember anything past the 1940s, he has an incredible mind for chemistry and math. This shows how this people that have had traumatic brain injuries or defects can still do amazing things even though parts of their brain does not
“As long as you try, you can accomplish so many things,” Brenda expresses. The young, intelligent, diligent worker, known as Brenda Lizet Hernandez was born January 26, 1995, in Anaheim California. Even as a young girl, Brenda received many challenges, but that didn’t stop her from facing her dreams, and aspirations. These challenges have molded her to the strong, young, beautiful woman she is now. She strives every day to create a successful life for herself and her family.
Nancy Randolph Pearcey, proclaimed as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual", was born in 1952. Nancy met her now husband, Richard Pearcey, in Switzerland. Several years after meeting they married and now have two sons. She is a former agnostic and an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview. Pearcey earned a BA from Iowa State University and an MA in Biblical Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. She also studied philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada and received an honorary doctoral degree from Philadelphia Biblical University. She has written three books: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning, and Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity. This last work was the winner of the 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award for best book on Christianity and Society. Pearcey is also the coauthor of four other books: The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy, coauthored by Charles B. Thaxton, How Now Shall We Live? coauthored by Harold Fickett and Charles Colson, A Dance With Deception: Revealing the Truth Behind the Headlines, and A Dangerous Grace: Daily Readings, both coauthored by Charles Colson. Pearcey is currently the editor-at-large of The Pearcey Report, a fellow at the Discovery Institute, and a scholar-in-residence and professor at Houston Baptist University. She previously worked as the Francis A. Shaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute and as professor of worldview
One of the strongest women scientist/astronomer was born in 1818 as Maria Mitchell whom led an unbelievable life and had an incredible discovery. Maria Mitchell was born when women were not given the opportunity to vote nor did women have the same equal rights as men did, but given her circumstances of her father being a principal, founding his own school and being a distant family member of Benjamin Franklin she was given the same rights as the men did. Given a few obstacles she led an extraordinary life and became the first woman in America to work as an astronomer professionally, which she than later received an award personally from King Frederick VII, for her work and discovery.
Roger Sperry is one of the big Neurobiologists in the 1950’s. Sperry studied the relationship of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. In one of his experiments he flashed the word “Fork” in front of the patient. If the patient was asked to say the word he could not but if asked to right the word he would start to right the word “Fork”. This happed when the two brain hemispheres were disconnected from each other. At an another experiment he placed a toothbrush in the patients left hand and blind folded the patient and was asked to identify it they could not do it. But if placed in the right hand the patient would know right away what it was. That is just one of the types of study he did in his time.
Henry Molaison or known as HM contributes to the deep understanding of memory by previous scientists and until now. His case had been a huge research and discussions among the well known scientists during his time and these results in the study of memories. Henry Molaison is living with a severe epilepsy where he need to undergo a surgery as medications were no longer gave him effects for his disease. So, his surgeon William Beecher Scoville suction out both of his hippocampus and when he got recovered from the surgery, his doctor realised that, Henry was having amnesia and seek him for another doctor. What confusing the doctors is that, even though the surgery was a success where Henry seizures decreasing; he is now facing dense memory loss. Then, once it was realized that the hippocampus plays a crucial roles for memory; the surgery of removing hippocampus was then banned for all and this brings to deep study of memory and hippocampus.