When acetaldehyde reacts with chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine then there is a strong chance that psychoactive alkaloids such as salsolinol will be produced (Sullivan et. al 2010). ... After a person dies, their brain goes through a process in order to preserve the brain structure, which in turn enables studies to be done (Sullivan et. al 2010). ... This translates into alcoholics still being able to do tasks that require hand-eye coordination, it just seems to take them a longer amount of time to do so (Sullivan et. al 2010). ... The average person uses the part of th...

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As stated "The advances in the field of behavior genetics have begun to identify specific genes that are involved in the development of complex disorders such as schizophrenia" (Gerber et al., 2003; Hashimoto et al., 2003; Williams et al., 1999) and autism (Lamb, Moore, Bailey, & Monaco, 2000; Nurmi et al., 2003). ...

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The researchers conclude that these two hypotheses are related but focus on two different questions (Marcusson-Clavertz et al., 2016). ... "(Marcusson et al., 2016, p. 453) The method used to prove their hypothesis was a series of tests administered by the experimenters. ... The second session consisted of "the second version of the Stroop task, followed by the Dissociative Experiences Scale and the SART" (Marcusson-Clavertz et al., 2016, p. 456). ... (Marcusson-Clavertz et al., 2016) In an article entitled "Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain," from The New York Times, w...

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Owen et al. (2010) concluded that in all three groups, the results provided no clear evidence to support the belief that regular use of computer programs using brain training tasks, improves overall cognitive function in healthy participants, beyond the tasks that were actually provided. ... From this Smith et al. (2009) gathered 487 applicants all 65 years or older with substantial cognitive damage, they were then arbitrarily assigned into age groups, the age groups were then randomly put into either an experimental group or a control group. ... Smith et al. (2009) concluded that the result...

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According to Adler et al. (2015), hearing is the physiological ability to perceive the presence of sounds in the environment, while listening occurs when the brain reconstructs these electrochemical impulses into a representation of the original sound and then gives them meaning. ... Rapid thought is when someone's mind wanders while the speaker is talking due to extra "mental spare time" as Adler et al. (2015) likes to call it. ... Task-oriented listening, according to Adler et al. (2015), is "designed to secure information necessary to get a job done". ...

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There may also be other contributors such as environmental factors that lead to Parkinson's when the substantia is damaged, and not just solely because of a decrease in dopamine (Nairne et al., 2001). ...

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Treisman et al presented a theory (with experiments to test their speculation) that said that only objects within 'focused attention' - which I take to be equivalent to the small cone of achievable detailed vision[1] - would be analysed first for 'correct perception' and that this analysis would then serve to 'fill-in' the understanding of the rest of the view in a top-down process. ...

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