brain lesions

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4 - Biological Mind Map on brain lesions, created by db56hse on 14/05/2013.
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brain lesions
  1. any kind of damage to brain - accident or surgery
    1. corpus callosum integrates information throughout the brain
      1. cut through to inhibit epileptic seizures
      2. electrical stimulation of temporal lobe elicits childhood memories
        1. important for providing a basis for biological theories of memory
        2. gage damaged left prefrontal lobe and became emotionally unhibited
          1. problems of interpreting damage as one-off - affects several areas - no control group - plasticity
            1. selective lesions made on laboratory animals - more precise information but ethical problems
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