In the study by Leon-Carrion et al. (2003), a comparison was made of the school and head injury histories of violent and non-violent prisoners. ... However, it was found that "what differentiated the violent from the non-violent group was a history of having suffered head injuries that were never treated- (Leon-Carrion et al., 2003, p207). ... Furthermore, it has also been shown that some individuals "had no trouble with the law until they became head-injured well into adulthood- (Sarapata et al., 1998, p831). ... They concluded that "dysfunction in the limbic system [has] been implicated i...

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The word is derived from the Greek word tera, meaning monster (Little et al., 1991). ... The results of the Jones and Smith study led to the 1989 United States Public Law number 100-690 being implemented which required warning labels be placed on all alcohol beverages sold in the United States alerting all pregnant women of the potential harm alcohol has to unborn babies (Streissguth et al., 1991). ... (Little et al., 1990). ... These children often are bedwetters, have erratic sleep patters, minimal sense of self-protection, are wildly impulsive, and often respond to minor frustration...

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(Caffrey, et al, 2003:282) Pain can also be categorised in regard to a pathophysiological cause: nociceptive as somatic or visceral and neuropathic pain. ... Some common presentations of children in hospital are procedure-related pain and abdominal pain which most of the time fall into the acute pain category (Schechter et al, 2003). ... Pain causes autonomic, physiological and psychological responses in individuals which is very unique to that individual (Seeley el al, 2003). Furthermore, pain can be described as a multidimensional experience which needs to be confronted with a holistic mul...

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In 1984 the group of Hugdahl et al, (Hugdahl 2012) began research on auditory laterality, using a variation of the dichotic listening technique. ... Hugdahl et al. (2003), investigated dichotic listening performance and frontal lobe function in no aphasiac patients with left and right lesions compared to healthy controls. ... It has been hypothesized in Green et al. (1994) that hearing imaginary voices involves the same physiological processes as those involved in hearing real voices, but this hypothesis has not been conclusively confirmed. ...

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1.  Discuss the major brain structures involved in hearing analysis/comprehension. Explain for each major structure what problems in hearing and/or analysis/comprehension would arise if they were damaged. The central auditory system has several brain stem nuclei: cochlear nuclei, superior olivary...

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Assignment Critically discuss the different ways sex differences in intelligence are influenced by biological and environmental factors. Response The sex differences in intelligence between men and women have been argued by many researchers over the past decades. However, there is not much substan...

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