Detail Rewiring the brain.   Oleh:  Kluger, Jeffrey Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: Time Magazine vol. 170 no. 10 (Sep. 2007), page 24. Topik: Brain Damage; Brain Operation; Wire Ketersediaan Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: T7 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel A little bit of current may calm tremors of Parkinson's disease, ease depression and epilepsy, and awaken those with terrible injuries. It's harder than you think to say hello to your mother--at least in terms of the work your brain has to do. A glimpse of Mom must first register on your occipital lobes as a pattern of light and shadow. From there it is relayed to your memory center, where it is identified by comparisson with every other face you've ever seen. You must then summon the speech centers in your frontal lobes,which recruit your breath and muscles and at last allow you to utter the words Hi, Mom. The fact that recognizing and acknowledging a familiar person is such a complex thing made it all the more remarkable in early August when scientists ammounced hat a 38-year-old man had managed to pull it off. The man, whose identity was withheld, had suffered severe brain damage in 1999 mugging and spent the past eight years in the dark cognitive well hat neuroscientists call a minimally conscious state. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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