Temporal lobe epilepsy Essays

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (BDV)

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    Biological déjà vu affects less of the population than ADV, but is more studied by psychologists. Biological déjà vu (BDV), specifically epileptic déjà vu, is also a significant form of DV that affects those who experienced seizures. Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a disorder that is argued to affect the hippocampus and is associated with the most common form of BDV. BDV is déjà vu caused by biological signals in the brain. In TLE, epileptic patients report feeling a sense of déjà vu prior to having

  • Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Literature Review

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    Christi library through electronic search of temporal lobe epilepsy. Four primary research and one review article were used to complete this literature analysis. The articles discussed are condensed in Table 1. Regarding EI in patients with TLE and patients with extra temporal lobe epilepsy was a case-control study that had three groups. Group 1 consisted of forty patients with TLE. Group 2 consisted of thirty patients with extra temporal lobe epilepsy. Group 3 consisted of thirty healthy control

  • Seizures and the Sight of God

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    from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Apparently the increased electrical activity in the brain resulting from seizure activity (abnormal electrical activity within localized portions of the brain), makes sufferers more susceptible to having religious experiences including visions of supernatural beings and near death experiences (NDEs) (9). Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) sufferers also may become increasingly obsessed with religion, the study and practice of it (1). Why is it that this form of epilepsy results

  • The Terminal Man Sparknotes

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    suffers from a severe personality disorder which causes him to believe that machines will take over the world. He also suffers from ADL syndrome, also referred to as acute disinhibitory lesion syndrome (a fictional mental disorder similar to temporal lobe epilepsy), which causes him to have dangerous seizures. During these seizures, he acts violently and brutally harms people, but he doesn’t remember doing so. It turns out that Benson is a prime candidate for a procedure known as stage three, in which

  • The Difference Between Deja Vu and Coincidence

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    that seem so strangely and intensely familiar. I hope my paper can help put a stop to that and give people some insight to what exactly this phenomena is. Déjà vu has been mistaken for many other associations ranging from reincarnation to temporal lobe epilepsy. So many so, that the people who study it would like to do away with the term 'déjà vu' and draw attention to the 3 more specifics forms which are: [1] Déjà Vecu, [2] Déjà Senti, and [3] Déjà Visite. Being that the first to investigate these

  • Epilepsy

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    Epilepsy Epilepsy is a condition characterized by recurrent seizures which are unprovoked by any immediately identifiable cause (Hopkins & Shorvon, 1995). It is also known as a seizure disorder. A wide range of links and risk factors are associated with the condition, but most of the time the cause is unknown. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting approximately two and half million people in the US and about 50 million worldwide. Though seizures can occur at any

  • The Temporal Lobe and its Effects on Language

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    The Temporal Lobe and its Effects on Language My paper has to due with the duties of a Neuropsychologists when examining damage or abnomalities to the Temporal lobe of the human brain and the various impairments that can happen to language. The temporal lobe is a vital area of the brain for many of the humans abilities such as memory and auditory processing, an also language. The neuropsychologist responsibility is for evaluating problems in this area when dealing with a client and

  • Mental Rotation Essay

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    just like actual music does. Just like a mental image has properties of distance and spatial relation- ships, the idea here is that the mental representation of a tune in your head has the property of existing in time, and the property of having temporal relationships (notes can be nearer or further apart in time). Put another way, you can’t randomly access any

  • Lizzie Borden

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    died of uterine congestion. In 1865, Andrew Borden wed Abby Durfee-a short, shy, obese woman who had been a spinster until the age of 36. Abby's family were not as well off as the Bordens. 	Lizzie suffered from psychomotor epilepsy, a strange seizure of the temporal lobe that has one distinct symptom: a "black-out" in which the patients carry out their actions in a dream state, aware of every action without knowing what they are doing. Lizzie Borden seemed to have two entirely different personalities:

  • Essay On Prosopagnosia

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    fusiform gyrus, and the superior temporal sulcus. The lateral fusiform gyrus is involved more with the formation and ideas we associate with identity. The superior temporal sulcus processes changes in the face, such as the position of the mouth to indicate a smile or wrinkling of the forehead to indicate frustration. Researchers pose that the location of the inferior occipital gyri suggests that it provides data to both the lateral fusiform and superior temporal sulcal areas (Haxby & Hoffman 2000)

  • Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran's Movie, Secrets of the Mind, Vision Is Divided into Two Part, Our Eyes and Our Mind

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    According to Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, in his movie “Secrets of the Mind,” our vision system is divided into two parts, one with our eyes, and the other with our brain. He also says that there are two different pathways in which our brain uses to “see.” One of these pathways, he calls the evolutionary new pathway (the more sophisticated pathway) in which our eyes see, then the information is sent to the thalamus, and eventually entering the visual cortex of the brain. This pathway is the conscious

  • Pick's Disease

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    cells having died (atrophied) in the specific areas of the brain. In Pick’s disease, the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain are most affected. Changes occur in the cerebral cortex (which is how the frontal lobe is affected.) Pick's disease affects the temporal lobes of the brain in 25%, frontal lobes in 25% and both frontal and temporal lobes in 50% of cases (1). Damage to the frontal lobes leads to alterations in personality and behavior, changes in the way a person feels and expresses emotion

  • Hearing, Listening and Music's Effect on the Brain

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    processes. Hearing is a biological process that involves the ear transferring the physical stimuli of sound to neural impulses. Listening is more difficult to quantify as it takes place within the brain. It is generally thought to occur in the temporal lobe and various other regions of the brain but the exact mechanism by which this occurs is unknown. Music has a lot of impact on the brain. It activates several regions of the brain in order to listen to the sound, interpret it as music, and respond

  • Personality Changes with Frontal and Temporal Lobe Injuries

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    moving towards the temporal lobe, steroids were given to reduce cerebral edema. The tumor weakened her left hemisphere causing numbness, followed by more frequent and strange seizures. Her previous seizures were grand mal convulsions, which she had on occasions. Though, her newly characterized seizures involved temporal lobe seizures that caused her not to lose consciousness, instead she would look and feel more dreamy (Sacks, 1985). Furthermore, EEG confirmed the temporal lobe seizures corresponded

  • Mozart Effect Essay

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    The Mozart Effect: Fact or Fiction? A demographic shift beginning in the middle of the 20th century has lead to rising incomes, more women in the work force, and a decreasing birth rate. This transition has occurred in many parts of the world. A particularly good example is that of China with their one child policy. Unlike before, the parents of the 20th Century were incentivized and recognized the value of investing more in their children. Furthermore, they now had the means to do so. This growing

  • The Effects of Schizophrenia on the Brain

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    The Effects of Schizophrenia on the Brain Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that affects one to two percent of people worldwide. The disorder can develop as early as the age of five, though it is very rare at such an early age. (3)) Most men become ill between the ages of 16 and 25 whereas most women become ill between the ages of 25 and 30. Even though there are differences in the age of development between the sexes, men and women are equally at risk for schizophrenia. (4) There is of

  • Reading: Entertainment and Brain Exercise

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    Reading: Entertainment and Brain Exercise Sitting down to your favorite romance or murder mystery novel does more for you then entertain. Enjoying the best chapter helps with brain connectivity, focus, and language comprehension. Reading anything helps your brain in some way. Whether you are just skimming or are super engaged in the book, your mind is working to improve. Getting involved in a good book can be better for you then you think. Finding something that peaks your interest can be difficult

  • Understanding Recovered Memories: A Neurological Perspective

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    understand to an extent how memory works. The Medial Temporal Lobe is the name we give to structures in our brain necessary for memory, this mainly includes the hippocampus, however the amygdala and the frontal lobe also play important roles. The hippocampus is where our long-term memories are stored in the brain, with age this becomes more dysfunctional. The amygdala and frontal lobe both work to encode our memories into our brain, however the frontal lobe also maintains agendas, refreshes and rehearses

  • Summary of Huntington's Disease

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    Disease Summary Huntington’s disease is of great concern because it is a genetic disease that affects many people worldwide. Huntington’s is described by Wider and Luthi-Carter (2006) as the most prevalent inherited neurodegenerative disorder in humans, affecting between two to eight per 100,000 inhabitants of Western countries. Huntington’s also has a slow onset with an average age of onset around 40 (Wider & Luthi-Carter, 2006). Wider and Luthi-Carter (2006) note the cause of this disease to be

  • My pet and I

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    I regretted what I’ve done; I wish I never had killed him especially when I realized that he was that he is actually is a boy, I would have had named him Benane instead of Cupcake. I really do wish that I never had sacrificed him. But when I think about it, it’s kind of ironic because Tay9s do sacrifices for religion practice. I wonder is that why they need sacrifice as a religion practice? Is it because nothing can be gain unless we sacrifice? He was the most important living being to me after