Ramadan: Does anybody happen to be good in Calculus or Psychology?

When compared to psychology generally neuroscience is relatively new, however we have identified many areas of brain to the cognitive process. There is advance research being conducted at many universities including the one I attend U.C.L.A. In neuroscience we use information from brain imaging to learn about the mental process. You must pose a specific question for me to answer. Calculus is not my field. Psychology is:

Here is some general information about what neuroscience is as related to human behavior.

Cognitive Neuropsychology

"...Cognitive Neuropsychology maps the connection between brain functions and cognitive behaviour. Patients with brain damages have been the most important source of research in neuropsychology. Neuropsychology also examines dissociation (“forgetting”), double dissociation and associations (connection between two things formed by cognition). Neuropsychology uses technological research methods to create images of the brain functioning. There are many differences in techniques to scan the brain. The most common ones are EEG (Electroencephalography), MRI and fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and PET (Positron Emission Tomography).

Cognitive Neuropsychology became very popular since it delivers good evidence. Theories developed for normal individuals can be verified by patients with brain damages. Apart from that new theories could have been established because of the results of neuropsychological experiments. Nevertheless certain limitations to the approach as it is today cannot be let out of consideration. First of all the fact that people having the same mental disability often do not have the same lesion needs to be pointed out. In such cases the researchers have to be careful with their interpretation. In general it could only be concluded that all the areas that the patients have injured could play a role in the mental phenomenon. But not which part really is decisive.

Based on that future experiments in this area tend to make experiments with a rather small number of people with pretty similar lesion respectively compare the results from groups with similar syndromes and different lesions. In addition to that the situation often turns out to be vice versa. Some patients do have pretty similar lesions but show rather different behavior.

One probable reason therefore is that the patients differ in their age and lifestyle. With better technologies in the future one will be better able to distinguish the cases in which really the various personalities make the difference or in which cases the lesions are not entirely equal. In addition to that the individual brain structures which may cause the different reactions to the lesions will become a focus of research. Another problem for Cognitive Neuropsychology is that their patients are rare. The patients which are interesting for such research have lesions of an accident or suffered during war. But in addition there are differences in the manner of the lesion. Often multiple brain regions are damaged which makes it very hard to determine which of them is responsible for the examined phenomenon. The dependency on chance whether there are available patients will remain in future. Thereby predictions concerning this aspect of the research are not very reliable.

Apart from that it is not possible yet to localise some mental processes in the brain. Creative thought or organisational planning are examples. A possible outcome of the research is that those activities rely on parallel processing. This would support the idea of the modification of the information processing theory that will be discussed later on. But if it shows up that a lot of mental processes depend on such parallel processing it would turn out to be a big drawback for Cognitive Psychology since its core is the modularization of the brain and the according phenomena. In this context the risk of overestimation and underestimation has to be mentioned. The latter occurs because Cognitive Psychology often only identifies the most important brain region for the mental task.

Other regions that are related thereto could be ignored. This could turn out to be fundamental if really parallel processing is crucial to many mental activities. Overestimation occurs when fibers that only pass the damaged brain region are lesioned, too. The researcher concludes that the respective brain region plays an important role in the phenomenon he analyses even though only the deliverance of the information passed that region. Modern technologies and experiments here have to be developed in order to provide valid and precise results..."

Definitely. It appears like its the one factor that maintains me sane. Getting a holiday from this loopy international and simply be capable to wish to my Lord for a couple of mins via out the day. It quite is helping me plenty. Like the way you stated, on annoying day it does me well and offers me a peaceful feeling.

As a guy who fails at school, i always wanted to be a Psychologist, do you think i can help

I think Somber is.. He has a TC badge in Psychology, anyway.

i majorered in psychology in college maybe i could help pm me let me know

lol ask Somber he always does this

I am good at calculus.

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