Brain Essays and Research Papers

The patient is a 21-month-old male who presented to the emergency department in full cardiac arrest after “choking” on a cookie earlier that day on October 15, 2018. Return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) occurred after thirty minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) and three rounds of epinephrine. When the ambulance arrived at the scene they found…

Abstract Traumatic brain injury leads to millions of deaths globally each year. The chances of better outcomes and prognosis for patients diagnosed with TBI increase when the injury is identified at early onset and treatment is initiated. Even with proper assessment, management, and treatment, the effects of TBI can be experienced throughout the life-span and…

Music has been a major force in almost every culture on earth, both today and throughout much of our history as a species. An increasing number of studies have sought to shed some light on how this universal constant in human society around the globe impacts the brain. This paper will begin with a basic…

In the video “3 clues to understanding your brain,” Vilayanur S. Ramachandran discusses three clues to understanding your brain. The three major “clues” are Capgras delusion, phantom limb, and synesthesia. Ramachandran uses life event examples while explaining each clue to help the audience better understand. The Capgras delusion is when the patient cannot recognize what…

A brain tumor is characterized by uncontrollable cell division and growth of tissue in the brain that cause brain dysfunctions. Some genes control when our cells grow and divide, or die by apoptosis, but mutations in DNA can lead to cancers. For instance, proto-oncogenes help cells continually grow and divide whereas tumor suppressor genes, such…

Biomedical engineering is a very broad field which means that they do not work in only one particular area of the medical or engineering field. The main focus of biomedical engineering is to improve health and healthcare through technology and engineering. The area of biomedical engineering and health that currently has a problem is different…

Even with years of schooling and training under their belts, doctors are still puzzled and looking for the overall cure to all cancers including the brain. The hardest part about brain cancer, aside from a cure, is that it’s unlike any other cancer in the body. The brain is encased in the skull and so…

There are many principles of development relating to a child’s brain that have been explored and debated throughout the decades. Some principles debated were, how much of our cognitive intelligence was determined by genes and how much is environmental, and effects of toxic stress in the child’s brain development process. I will be exploring these…

Introduction I have always been fascinated by how our environment effects how our mind works; so when I was given the opportunity to choose a book to read and review, Brain Rules: Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina caught my attention. Developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, wrote this book to help…

The brain is such a complex thing in which most people would like to know the full understanding of it. Why is it that the brain is so small, yet has so many functions? How do people view what is actually going on in our brains? What kind of activity goes on in the brain…