Narcolepsy

          "Science Daily" published an article in October 2010 recording and informing about a new discovery about sleeping disorders. Scientists have come to realize that sleeping problems are not influenced only by your neviornment but by ypur genes. This gene that some people carry is the cause for Narcolepsy. This desease makes itharder for people to be able to sleep. Narcolepsy is a disorder in which if you get too excited or altered your brain immediately shut down. I think that this article is very interesting because it informs people that it is not only the enviornemt but how you are bron with that causes trouble durnig some people's sleep. this article should show people that they shou;dnt complain about having too little time to sleep but be thankful that they are healthy and have the ability to have a good night sleep while others cant.

30 more minutes of sleep Make a difference

            Science Daily published an article in July 2010 about teenager’s sleep and how they are affected daily. The studies have proven that lack of sleep cause mood changes, fatigue and daytime sleepiness. In order to conduct the studies they asked diverse schools in Rhode Island to delay that starting school hour fro just half an hour. The results they got from this time change was that the teenagers had a better mood and they went through the day in school better and with less fatigue. I think that this article is also good but I think that half an hour doesn’t make much difference but it does help. I think that an hour would be much better because it is more sleep than what they would usually get with all the studying. I think this system should be applied in schools all around the world.

Teens Need MORE Sleep!

A Science Daily article which was published in the year 2008 stated that students were having daily life troubles because of having too little time to sleep. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine began a research in the year of 2007 to see whether students had a hard time in school for sleeping or if it was for other reasons. The major part said it was because of lack of sleep. In the year of 2008 schools changes their schedule and started one hour later than the usual. The academy of sleep medicine made another survey in 2008 and what they found this time was that the teenagers had an easier time during school and they were more rested. I think that this article is really good because it shows the people how sleep influences teenager’s lives and how they affect our school work. I think that parents and teachers should consider this and think about how hard we work and the amount of sleep we need is not being slept because of too much homework or our parents wanting us to wake up early.

Teenage Brain

     Watching a video in my psychology class has helped me learn why we teenagers act the strange way we do. It is said that throughout studies psychologists have learned that teenagers act like they do because their frontal lobe is still developing so this makes the teenager have a difficult time controlling his or her emotions. It has also come to my interest that studies have lead to the conclusion that teenagers need more hours of sleep that adults do. If teens do not sleep the amount that is required which is 9 hours, then they will have a difficult day or time. What most came to my attention was that parents don’t realize what we teens are going through and many have been informed and still don’t understand. My opinion is, that our parents see us no longer as kids but as “mature and developed people” but we are not, and they have to understand and be considerate. We teenagers see things differently as adults do. We exaggerate things but this is because of the same reason that our brain is still developing and we have to wait and try to control our emotions and thoughts until our brains get to that mature stage and that might be the stage where our lives become easier.

How Our Brain Works

      The brain has two hmispheres which means there is the left hemisphere of the brain and the right hemisphere of the brain. The major differences in between the lestf and the right side of the brain are that: first, the left side of the brain uses logic and the right side uses randomness. second, the left side is rational and the right is intuitive. third, the left looks at parts and the right looks at wholes. Fourth, left side is subjective and the right is objective. The corpus callosum is a huge bundle of nerve fibers found in mammalian brains. It connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, and is responsible for most of the communication between the two.
       The production of language has been linked to the Broca’s area since Pierre Paul Broca reported impairments in two patients. They had lost the ability to speak after injury to the posterior of the brain.^[2] Since then, the approximate region he identified has become known as Broca’s area, and the deficit in language production as Broca´s aphasia.
    RogerSperry discovered in two of his pacient epilepsy. During this time there was no cure for this but Roger and his colegues found a cure which was to remove the corpus collosum so that the problem wouldnt spread into the other hemisphere of the brain.
     After a small time that after Borca came up with is theory Carl Wernicke came up with another theory of how malfunctioning in language or speech happens in the brain.he found that damage to the left posterior, superior temporal gyrus had effects in deficits in language comprehension. This region is now called Wernicke´s Area, and the associated syndrome is known as Wernikes affacia, because of his discovery.
     The occipitl lobe is most responsible for vision. The temporal lobe is responsible for hearing and language, but not only that it also controls memory, emotions and learning. The Angular Gyrus is responsible for answering mathematical problems or metaphores. The HindBarin is responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control. It is also the oldest part of the brain.

*Phineas Gage*

          Phineas Gage was a railroad construction foreman who is famously remembered because of his accident he had once while working. He was working with a metal rod to pinch the sand into the earth so that the explosive inside the earth would not escape throught the hole. Unfortunately he was distracted while executing his work and the explosive went off making the metal rod fly directly into his face and out. Phineas gage was still alive after all and his friends huried towards him to take him to a paramedic.

        Phineas had all his frontal lobe distroyed and yet he was alive. What changed was his personality, he became a grumpy and filthy man. This case turned very famous because it was the first time that someone survived from an injury that bad and it helped doctors understand the functions of the brain and they learned that the frontal lobe controlled the way you act. They also learned that there are cirtain parts of your brain that can be damaged and yet you can survive.

        Brain Localization has to do with the localiszation of parts of your brain and their functions.

                              Below you will see a detailed picture with the localizations:



           Brain Lateralization means that some functions are carried out exclusively on one side of the barain (ex. speech, wich is on the left side of the brain for most people). The brain is devided into two sides thgat are alike in some ways and very different in others. each side carries out different functions and control different parts of your body. The left side of the brain controls the left side of the body and the right brain controls the right side of the body.

Nature VS Nurture Debate (Criminal Behavior)

It is believed that we inherit many things from our parents and that we gain certain characterisitcs from our enviornment. Nature VS nurture are the two debated sides in which one side believes that the majority of the things we inherit are ffrom Nature and another from Nurture whoch is what we learn when we grow up. I personally believe that we inherit things from our parents and then when we are growing we also learn them. The topic i am going to debate is Criminal Behavior. I think that criminal behavior is NOT inherited from our parents, but learned from them or others. We have been taught not to say bad words near small kids because they will do watever we big kids or adults do, its the same thing with violence. If a child sees their parents using violence or doing bad things then they will think its right and do the same.

      According to the research i have made Criminal Behavior has been categorized as Nurture. Many of the criminals are violent because they have been molested when little. Many of the criminals that were sexually horrassed or violently treated when they were little come to be criminals because it is a way to draine their anger to life. Another reason is because when they were violently treated they ahd some brain damage. N example my psychology teacher gave my class was thatv when kids were shaken when they were kids, their brain would hit the boe and get damaged which made the brain develop wrongly and create a discontroll of emotions. Criminals usually tend to kill, but they kill in a very violent way. They usually dont get enough just to kill the person and then leave. they stab variouse times and do discusting things with the person. This is because the part of their brain that is damaged´is the part that controls your body and that tells you when to stop watever you are doing.

    in conclusion, i think that the Criminal behavior comes from nurture. Children learn what they see very quickly and if they see things that create a very tense atmosphere then they will get interested and if they see things being done by their parents or other adults then they will think it is right. Children need to be shown the irght things so that these things that are happening in the present wont happen in the future. Children need to be treated paciently so that their personality can be the same way they have seen since children.