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Melina Hale (fl. from 1998), neuroscientist studying zebrafish to understand how the brain communicates with muscles to generate movement; Marnie Halpern (born 1956), molecular and systems biologist who has focused on studying how differences are established between the right and left sides of the developing brain
Left-brain interpretation is a case of the lateralization of brain function that applies to "explanation generation" rather than other lateralized activities. [5] Although the concept of the left-brain interpreter was initially based on experiments on patients with split-brains , it has since been shown to apply to the everyday behavior of ...
Language functions such as grammar, vocabulary and literal meaning are typically lateralized to the left hemisphere, especially in right-handed individuals. [7] While language production is left-lateralized in up to 90% of right-handers, it is more bilateral, or even right-lateralized, in approximately 50% of left-handers. [ 8 ]
Patient P.S. was a teenage boy in whom it was shown that language comprehension was possible in the right hemisphere. When the word “girlfriend” was flashed to his left visual field, and thus his right hemisphere, he could not verbally say the name of his “crush”, but he then spelled out the name “Liz” with Scrabble tiles.
Daphna Joel (Hebrew: דפנה יואל; born January 20, 1967) is an Israeli neuroscientist and advocate for "neurofeminism". [1] [2] She is best known for her research which claims that there is no such thing as a "male brain" or a "female brain".
This isn’t your typical quiz filled with random facts—this is a logic, common sense, and outside-the-box thinking challenge, inspired by questions from The 1% Club TV game show.
Poster of the documentary film My Love Affair with the Brain by Dr Marian Diamond. My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond is a 2017 documentary about Diamond's life as a pioneering woman of science, her curiosity and passion for the human brain, as well as her research and love of teaching. Producer-directors ...
Schizophrenia is a complex long-term mental disorder that causes hallucinations, delusions and a lack of concentration, thinking, and motivation in an individual. Studies have found that individuals with schizophrenia have a lack in brain asymmetry thus reducing the functional efficiency of affected regions such as the frontal lobe. [21]