1. Niki Hosseini-Kamkar Greydon Gilmore Jordynne Ropat Nellie Kamkar
Neuroscience
Niki Hosseini-Kamkar
Greydon Gilmore
Jordynne Ropat
Nellie Kamkar

2. The Brain… Thoughts Memories Actions Feelings Sensations Perceptions
Describe to them what their brain is doing right now! Neurons in the visual system are making sense of the visual input. Neurons in the auditory system are picking up on sound waves etc…

3. The Case of Patient H.M.
Cured his epilepsy. BUT…he was unable to form new (long term) memories and he also had an inability to recall memories from a few years prior to the surgery. However, his working memory was intact and so was his procedural memory.

4. Patient H.M. and Brenda Milner forever changed our understanding of memory
Brenda Milner (awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience) This demonstrated that although he was not able to remember new events, we was able to learn new skills.

5. Phineas Gage
American railroad construction foreman. Fired from his job within ten weeks for being so mean and vulgar.

6. Prosopagnosia (“Face Blindness”)

7. Capgras Delusions
A disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a spouse, friend, or relative has been replaced by an identical-looking imposter.

8. BUT… BUT… EMOTIONAL RESPONSE! EMOTIONAL RESPONSE!
PROSOPAGNOSIA VS. CAPGRAS DELUSIONS
BUT…
BUT…
EMOTIONAL RESPONSE!
EMOTIONAL RESPONSE!

9. PROSOPAGNOSIA VS. CAPGRAS DELUSIONS

10. SYNESTHESIA Hear Colours Taste sounds

11. The McGurk Effect

12. NEURO MYTH OR FACT? FACT MYTH MYTH MYTH FACT
The human brain does not have any pain receptors and cannot feel pain
FACT
The bigger your brain, the smarter you are.
Listening to classical music makes you smarter
MYTH
MYTH
Brain damage is always permanent
MYTH
Humans have more brain cells at the age of 2 than at any other time in their lives
FACT

13. Other areas of research…

14. Brain Bee