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A half-birthday is a day approximately six months before or after the anniversary of a person's birth. It is sometimes marked by people whose birthday either falls on major holidays, near major holidays, or both, the celebration of which may overshadow celebration of the birthday. [1] It may also be marked by students whose birthday does not ...
Hemispatial neglect is a neuropsychological condition in which, after damage to one hemisphere of the brain (e.g. after a stroke ), a deficit in attention and awareness towards the side of space opposite brain damage (contralesional space) is observed. It is defined by the inability of a person to process and perceive stimuli towards the ...
The human brain has an overall leftward posterior and rightward anterior asymmetry (or brain torque). There are particularly large asymmetries in the frontal, temporal and occipital lobes, which increase in asymmetry in the antero-posterior direction beginning at the central region. Leftward asymmetry can be seen in the Heschl gyrus, parietal ...
The neuroscience of free will, a part of neurophilosophy, is the study of topics related to free will ( volition and sense of agency) using neuroscience and the analysis of how findings from such studies may impact the free will debate . As medical and scientific technology has advanced, neuroscientists have become able to study the brains of ...
The hippocampus ( pl.: hippocampi; via Latin from Greek ἱππόκαμπος, ' seahorse ') is a major component of the brain of humans and other vertebrates. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in each side of the brain. The hippocampus is part of the limbic system, and plays important roles in the consolidation of information ...
The lateralization of brain function (or hemispheric dominance[ 1][ 2] / latralisation [ 3][ 4]) is the tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be specialized to one side of the brain or the other. The median longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres, connected by the corpus callosum.
Neuroblast. In vertebrates, a neuroblast or primitive nerve cell [1] is a postmitotic cell that does not divide further, [2] and which will develop into a neuron after a migration phase. [3] In invertebrates such as Drosophila, neuroblasts are neural progenitor cells which divide asymmetrically to produce a neuroblast, and a daughter cell of ...
The brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system. The brain consists of the cerebrum, the brainstem and the cerebellum. It controls most of the activities of the body, processing, integrating, and coordinating the information it receives from the sense organs, and making ...