Screaming refers to a sound utterance at a high volume. Strong emotional feelings are usually associated with crying, and depending on the age of the person, crying has a different communicative meaning. What is shouting? Yelling refers to a sound expression at a high volume. Screaming is usually associated with strong emotional feelings. A cry … Screaming: Function, Task & Diseases
Any psychologist would confirm that the subconscious plays an important role in major decisions. This insight is not new to most people, because almost everyone knows the somewhat indefinable “gut feeling”, that intuition that is often felt when it comes to important decisions. In the meantime, it has been scientifically proven: Careful consideration is not … The Subconscious Mind: How does it Influence Our Decisions?
Not surprisingly, the word anger in Latin is “furor”, which means frenzy, passion or madness. Behind it is a violent, even exaggerated impulsive emotion that is often accompanied by strong aggression. What is anger? Not surprisingly, the word anger in Latin is “furor”, which means frenzy, passion or madness. Anger is more serious than simple … Anger: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases
The formatio reticularis form a nerve plexus in the human brain that consists of gray as well as white matter (substantia alba and substantia grisea) and traverses the entire brainstem. It extends to the spinal cord and consists of extensive, diffusely connected neuron networks. The formatio reticularis controls, among other things, waking and sleeping states, … Formatio Reticularis: Structure, Function & Diseases
During all of these aforementioned trials, the brain steered the behaviors unconsciously. As Schreier and Held put it, the brain switched to “autopilot.” Since this is trimmed for efficiency, it stores automated programs that are activated by certain triggers called “implicit codes” and thus control our behavior. The “pilot,” on the other hand, is our … Advertising in the Brain: Pilot and Autopilot
A brief excursion into the human head: the brain of an adult weighs 1,300 to 1,400 grams. Yet it has an estimated 100 billion nerve cells – called neurons – each of which has about 10,000 connections to other neurons. This ensures that the human being can send, receive and forward signals non-stop. Every second, … Advertising in the Brain: Predominantly Unconscious
Companies send a good 6,000 advertising messages to people every day. Only a fraction of these actually get through. However, the unconscious mind plays a pretty big role, for example in purchasing decisions. Even if we don’t want to admit it: Advertising works! The “Pepsi problem” In a 1983 experiment, one group of people was … How Advertising Works in the Brain
Character is the nature of a person and determines how they act, what they dream about, and what they fear. Modern medicine localizes character to the neural circuitry of the frontal brain region. Therefore, in the degenerative decay of these regions in the context of Alzheimer’s disease, for example, there is also talk of ego … Character: Function, Tasks, Role & Diseases
“She only likes music when it’s loud, when it hits her in the stomach” sang Herbert Grönemeyer in 1984, making it clear to many people for the first time that deaf people pick up and perceive vibrations through their bodies. However, the perception of vibrations is only one facet of music as therapy – the … Music Therapy: Entering the World of Sound
Photopic vision refers to normal color vision via the so-called M, L, and S cones, which are photosensorically optimized for the green, red, and blue regions, respectively. Photopic vision requires a minimum brightness of about 3 to 30 cd/sqm and occurs mainly in the fovea centralis, a small area in the retina. The fovea centralis … Photopic Vision: Function, Task & Diseases
The term “limbic system” refers to a functional unit localized in the brain that serves primarily to process emotional impulses. In addition, the limbic system controls the development of drive behavior. The processing of essential components of intellectual performance is also attributed to the limbic system. In connection with these complex processes, however, the limbic … Limbic system
Fornix The so-called fornix consists of a pronounced fibrous cord that connects the hippocampus with the mammillary corpus above the third ventricle. As part of the functional circuit known as the “limbic system“, the fornix is also involved in the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory. Corpus mamillare The corpus mamillare is a … Fornix | Limbic system
