HDP 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Amygdala, Occipital Lobe, Brainstem
9 Oct 2016
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Brain and the mind are not equal. I think, therefore i am- rene descartes. Roper v simmons: a 17-year old abducted and killed a 46-year old woman, but some institutions said that he should not be held accountable because his brain was not fully developed yet. Charles j whitman: he was a prodigy but he killed his mother and wife and shot many students at texas university. He had a brain tumor in the region that is responsible for emotional actions. Utah supreme court: ms. nielson was babysitting a boy who was four years and nine months old; the boy threw a toy rubber dolphin at her, striking her in the eye. Ms. nielson had previously received a cornea transplant, and, tragically, the impact caused her to lose all vision in that eye. We don"t know enough to establish age limits for when our brain develops certain skills. Cell nucleus, dendrites, cell body, axons, myelin sheaths, neural impulse, axon terminals.
