BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie
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Even when there are biological factors that contribute to a<br />
problem, the environment usually plays a role as well. Biological<br />
approaches to <strong>de</strong>fining abnormality may encourage people to overlook<br />
environmental factors that are easier to change than genetics or brain<br />
disor<strong>de</strong>rs. A study of adopted children showed that two distinct risk factors<br />
encouraged alcoholism: (1) familial alcoholism (one or both genetic<br />
parents were alcoholic) and (2) drinking in the family environment (the<br />
adoptive parents had drinking problems). Either heredity or environment<br />
could increase risk of alcoholism, and obviously only the environment can<br />
be manipulated or changed after a person is born, if one wants to prevent<br />
alcoholism from <strong>de</strong>veloping.<br />
Specific behavioral disor<strong>de</strong>rs<br />
1. Divi<strong>de</strong>d Brain<br />
This disease is also called split-brain, and the problem the patient<br />
has is that the both brain parts cannot communicate with each other.<br />
The brain has two hemispheres, the right and the left hemisphere.<br />
Those two hemispheres do look like mirror images of each other, but a<br />
closer examination reveals certain asymmetries. When the two<br />
hemispheres are measured during an autopsy, the left one is almost always<br />
larger than the right one. This anatomical difference are related to<br />
differences in functions between the two hemispheres: the left hemisphere<br />
is specialized for the use of language, while the right one is specialized for<br />
mental imagery and the un<strong>de</strong>rstanding of spatial relationships.<br />
Speech and the production of sounds are usually located in the left<br />
hemisphere. But some left-han<strong>de</strong>d people have speech centers located in<br />
the right hemisphere or divi<strong>de</strong>d between the two. Seeing is also<br />
complicated, the two eyes of you give their information to the opposite<br />
hemisphere; your right eye gives his information to the left hemisphere,<br />
and your left eye to the right hemisphere. The brain transforms this<br />
information so we see 'normal'. As a result of this the left hemisphere sees<br />
the right hand in the right visual field, this is correct because your right<br />
hemisphere controls you left body-half and otherwise. When someone is<br />
suffering a split-brain his both hemispheres cannot communicate. In a test,<br />
a person with a split brain is seated in front of a screen. Because of his<br />
split brain he cannot use his right hand to take something he sees with his<br />
left eye. When a word appears on the left si<strong>de</strong> of the screen, the eye passes<br />
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