Essays on Brain

With the advent of social media the variety of digital media is growing exponentially. The sole purpose of media is to introduce a sense of joy among users. Multimedia customization and recommendations depend on emotional traits of the content a user is watching. The levels...

The cognitive approach to behavior is the study of processing information within the human brain. The mental activities that involved thinking and remembering is known as cognition. Within the cognitive memory was the schema theory which claimed that our knowledge regarding the world is organized...

The underlying association between brain activities and personality types can be difficult to ascertain given the complexity of the human brain and variance of personality sub-types. For example, introversion and extraversion only represents the polar opposite of a range of personalities. Keeping this in mind,...

Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California, Martin Hilbert, says that, “The amount of information we produce in a day through email, social networking sites and text messages is on average six newspapers worth, compared to two and half pages in the...

The normal function of the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) is largely dependent on structural plasticity. This plasticity can be modulated by a variety of environmental and endogenous factors. Changes in dendrite morphological may be associated with altered region-specific function and behaviour. The hippocampus is...

Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly evident that androgens are powerful modulators of hippocampal neuroplasticity. However, despite most studies demonstrating a trophic influence of androgens on spine synapses there is evidence to suggest these changes contrast with modifications to dendritic arborization. Two...

The CA1 region of the male rat hippocampus has been shown to exhibit a reduction in spine synapse density one-month following GDX (Leranth et al. , 2003). Although this result closely parallels the reduction in spine synapse density seen in females rats following ovariectomy (MacLusky...