Review Of In The Brain That Changes Itself By Norman Doidge

One of the themes in Exhalation by Ted Chiang is the scientific method can reveal truths about existence. The scientific method is like a fortune teller. It can give us the answers that we did not have before. In the short story, the world is filled with a race mechanical beings. Curiosity builds as time appears to be moving faster even though there is no malfunctions with the clocks. One scientist decides to take upon the task to figure out what is going on and dissects his own brain. Through the scientific method, the scientist discovers that because the atmospheric pressure rising that the air passing through their brain is slower. The slower the air passing through their brain, the slower their brains perform. This discovery led to the

As Stated by Kleim, and Jones, Neural plasticity is “believed to be the basis for both learning in the intact brain and relearning in the damaged brain that occurs through physical rehabilitation and is the relearning of skills in the damaged brain” (Kleim, J., & Jones, T). Neural plasticity is also defined as the ability to continuously change with experiences. Brain plasticity allows the brain to respond to environmental changes or changes within the brain itself (Kolb, B. (1995) pg 4-5).

The video Severed Corpus Callosum by the Scientific American Frontiers describes the case of a split-brain patient Joe. The recording starts on the campus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where Dr. Mike Gazzaniga, one of the leading scientists of this place has been working with Joe, a man with two brains for over a decade. Doctors have to perform brain surgery to correct his epileptic problem and to stop the daily seizures that were affecting his life. The procedure severed the connection between the two halves of his brain cutting the corpus callosum to prevent the spread of the electric storms that causes seizures. Yet, it also stopped the communication between the left and right halves of his brain.

John B. Watson and his assistant Rosalie Rayner conducted an experiment called the “Little Albert” experiment. It was a psychology experiment performed to demonstrate the effects of behavioral conditioning in humans. John was influence by the studies of Ivan Pavlov, where he used conditioning process in dogs. John want to prove that taking Pavlov’s research a step further could show how emotional reactions could be classically conditioned in humans.

Brain science is hard to understand. Very hard. However, Dr. Norman Doidge describes the current understanding of brain plasticity by using relatable examples and comprehensible diction instead of arduous textbook style writing. In The Brain that Changes Itself, Doidge challenges the age-old belief that the brain's structure is concrete by providing countless experiments that prove the brain to be malleable.

‘It has been argued that two events led to the development of the modern discipline of Psychology: the foundation of Wilhelm Wundt’s Institute of Experimental Psychology, and the introduction of a new theory of evolution, described in Darwin’s Origin of Species. Critically assess the impact of these events on Psychology and society.’

Learning enables you as an individual, to gain more knowledge about something which you have never learned about. Learning also has to do with past experiences which are influenced by behavioural changes (Weiten, 2016). There are different types of ways to learn; through, classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning which will be discussed and analysed in the essay.

Since the beginning of science the brain has been a mysterious curiosity to man. The term “neuroscience” only dates back to the 1970’s, but the study of the brain began not too long after figuring out what science was. As technology has progressed over time, neuroscience has undergone significant changes to become what it has today. New findings and discoveries are always changing what we know, or what we think we know, about the brain. In the collection of stories by Oliver Sack entitled, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, we see those with neurological diseases suffering, with their attempts to cope these diseases and the conclusions that Dr. Sacks makes on their conditions. Dr. Sacks is the physician in all the narratives that tell about his studies of patients with the neurological deficits. Sack’s is not

Dr. Carol Dweck explain the two forms of mindsets, fixed and growth, through experiments and examples through her own life. These two types of mindsets shows the short-term and long-term benefits. A "growth mindset" illustrates the positive benefits, showing how our relationships, education, and way of life can be change through the way we think. Through the chapter Dr. Dweck explains the proof of both mindsets, through examples of how people react through different scenarios and how people 's lives changed through a certain mindset.

The human mind is one of the most intricate structures that God has ever created. Understanding that each and every individual holds their own thought pattern with varying degrees of complexity is difficult. Nothing has more influence over a person greater than the influences of the mind. It is responsible for behavior, which then turns into characteristic habits. Psychology as we know it today has only been in practice since the early 1900’s. Before this science came to fruition several authors delved into the theories of how the mind worked. At the top of that list of authors is Edgar Allan Poe, the founder of the “short story” and the mystery murder story. Poe seems to have been overly aware of how the nuances of the mind worked and what

Chapter one is about introducing psychology. In this chapter we learn about the the history of psychology and how it came to be. Since psychologists belonging to specific ethnic groups or cultures have the most interest in studying the psychology of their communities, these organizations provide an opportunity for the growth of research on the impact of culture on individual and social psychology. While psychology typically focuses on the immediate causes of behavior based in the physiology of a human or other animal, evolutionary psychology seeks to study the ultimate biological causes of behavior. Other organizations provide networking and collaboration opportunities for professionals of several ethnic or racial groups working in psychology,

Split-brain concepts have been explored for almost a century. The study has opened up many new frontiers of brain research. These new frontiers have uncovered hemispheric specialization and provided more focus on brain regions. The initial research into split-brain was due to neurologists trying to find new ways of solving neurological disorders. The first sign of split brain was in the 1940s. Dr. William P. van Wagenen introduced a technique of corpus callosotomy for treatment of refractory epilepsy. He discovered that the removal of the corpus callosum was a viable method of reducing convulsive seizures that was presented from supportive observations. He tested this theory on 10 patients that underwent the surgery. Seven of the patients that underwent treatment had satisfactory results and all patients had improvement in seizure control. However, he only partially removed the corpus callosum in his treatments. This was due to the unknown side effects of the complete removal of the corpus callosum. After Wagenen 's research, more than 20 years passed before the next clinical series. There was a revival of interest of corpus callosotomy in 1960. Roger W. Sperry and Micheal S. Gazzaniga discovered the full removal of the corpus callosum alleviated seizures. As a result of the corpus callosotomy, it had an unfortunate side effect called split-brain syndrome. This syndrome has been the cornerstone of research in hemispheric differences and is constantly being studied to this date.

In this essay, I will argue that identity theory, which is the view that the mind is the brain based on a posteriori, is not true using the multiple reliability argument (77). A posteriori refers to the philosophical theory that truth is based on having an experience (85).

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Psychology has had a huge impact on how we study behavior, and how we treat any problems related in any way with the brain, psychologically,and physically. Back in the nineteenth century however, any means of studying an active brain was nearly impossible due, to the lack of technology and proper equipment. However, on September 13, 1848, a young man by the name of Phineas P. Gage, suffered a very severe Injury, in which an iron rod pierced through his head, when unexpected explosion occurred while he worked on a American railroad construction site, with his fellow workers. The damage he sustained from the incident included the destruction of his left and right frontal lobe, also losing his eye, regardless of the injury, he survived the incident. This was the first case, that anyone was able study an active, live brain. The incident , deeply