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during that time, and it almost killed her. She pulled through, but her left leg was paralyzed from

In Eric Kandel's Aplysia experiment, Kandel showed that a slug lost sensitivity in its gills, after repeated contact to which Carr states "the brain...change[s] with experience, circumstance, and need". Both, Kandel's and Merzenich's, experiments lead to the same conclusion of the physical body adapting in real-time to the environment. Carr briefly writes how a man named Bernstein regained movement in his hand and leg after damaging his brain which regulated movement and how through the use of technology analyzing neural activity, Carr tells how violinists had increased cortical areas of their right hand compared to nonmusicians, and compared to their own left cortical areas. Carr's final example for the brain's plasticity is with Pascual-Leone's experiment. Pascual-Leone mapped the brain activity of a group of people playing certain notes on a piano, and a group imagining themselves playing the notes. He concluded that their brains had both changed in response to the experiment, both in playing, and imagining playing. Pascual-Leone's work showed that the human brain can change itself neurologically without physical activity. Carr summarizes, "We become, neurologically, what we think". Carr asserts through these scientific experiments that not only were Freud, J.Z. Young, and William James, correct , but "the adult brain...is not just plastic but...'massively plastic.'" Carr

whatsoever. Even when she arrived at the hospital, the doctors were no help. She survived her

She realizes that she is left defenseless and that her philosophy and education can not help her in times of great intense physical struggle and difficulty, such as trying to get back home without her other leg and no glasses in order to see (Whitt 78).

hit by a 2 lb lead weight on her forehead. From then on, she suffered visions and temporal lobe

crushed her skull and left a huge scar. Ever since then she's suffered from seizures and instantly

Her parents then found out her chance of survival was 30% and as shocked and discourage her parents were they then found out that she could have been paralyzed.

Throughout history, a human being was always reliant on the primary sensory areas. An ability to communicate and contract languages is considered to be a unique ability of human nation as no other species show an equal amount of complexity in terms of the structure and sound combination. On the other hand, primary visual cortex provides a skill set in order to identify the objects presented in the world, the distance towards them as well as to design a set of actions in order to incorporate some items such as a stone or a pen. The understanding of these systems is crucial, especially for those who suffer from strokes and tumors and as a result lost the ability to visually recognize objects or hear other people. This work will focus of the structure

Rochester, Mn - May 1, 1965. Charlie Gordon, age 37, just had a life changing operation for his mentally challenged brain. Mr.Gordon is the first human to ever be given this operation. This experimental operation has been tried on animals, and the one animal that the operation that has promised to execute is a white mouse named Algernon. The reason that Mr. Gordon was chosen for this operation is because he was one of very few people whom were The brains behind this operation are Dr. Strauss and Dr.Nemur. The operation was given on March 15th, 1965 in Strauss’ and Nemur’s laboratory here in Rochester. After the operation Gordon was told to do hypnopedia. Hypnopedia is the art of learning by

Gibson’s and Gregory’s theories of perception both suggest that eye-retina is important for perception. The both believe that without eye-retina, a person will not be able to see. This is a common view of both of the theories of perception. The idea is supported by the case of SB. SB was a man who had been blind from birth due to cataracts. When he was 52, he had an operation which restored his sight and hence he could see. Thus, this case has shown the importance of eye-retina for things to be perceived. And therefore, supports both of theories of perception which eye-retina is essential for perception.

Oliver Sacks demonstrates the ability for the brain to make new connections within its synapses which is an

Imagine waking up one in total darkness. Your eyes are open but you can’t see anything. All you smell is medicine and all you can hear is machines. Calling for somebody to explain what’s going on, you sit up, feeling the rough hospital bed. At last you hear your mom telling you what happened, you had an emergency surgery and now you're permanently blind.

cope with the events in her life because she was so adapted to being told how to think and

Though she is in good health, she couldn’t escape her age, and inevitable changes that come with it. She couldn’t escape the fact that he life was passing and there was no going back to change anything. She would no longer be able to have children, and would not be able to re–do her life and have children. She would eventually have to accept her life as it is now, to accept things that have passed, and let them go or keep her pain and sink into an abyss.

This accident also affected her for her entire life, in the long run. While in bed, she painted. In my opinion, this was self-medication to her. Her paintings