teenagers

Parents have to be more coprhencive all time. we have lots of things in our brain occuring at the same time and they are putting much more pressure in us. i learned that us as teenagers we must get at least nine hours at night to sleep. if we get to sleep the right amount of time at night our body will be awakend and we will be more active. most of our frontal lobe in our teen years is still developing andimproving from time to time. i really learned many things from this video. most of the times i get angry with my family membres is beacuse i think they do not understand me at all and they just want to bother me. but actually all they are trying to do is to help me because they have already been in the teen years. being teenagers is a very difficult stage in my opinion because we have to keep up with many things like friendship or school, ven though our brain is still developing. also trying to avoid peer pressure is very hard, alcohol becamoes a huge problem during this years. time to time our brain will be fully develop and we will understand  and see the world in a different perspective. after teen years parents could become your best friends forever. This video say many true things occuring to every teeanger in the world. Less homework would let us rest even more! :)

How our BRAIN works.

1. the word hemisphere referes to our brain because of the two sides of our brain. htere is the left hemisphere and the right hemishpere, each side with their own responsibilties and duties.
2.the major things that difffer the left side with the right are that the left side of language and process in a logic and sequeltial oreder. and the right side is more as a visual and process intuitive, hollistically and randomly. they both have different job to carry out acticities for your body.
3.corpus collosum is part of the brain that conncets the left and right side cerebral hemispheres which facilitates the comunication.
4. Paul Broca was a very smart french physician. He discovered the Broca area that it is located in the frontal lobe in our brain. After his studies they figured out that it is the part of the brain that makes us speak. He was not only a physician, he was also an anatomist and anthropologist. he made many researched and then named this part of the brain after his last name.
5.Roger sperry was a succesful neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and nobel laureate. He even won a noble medicine prize because of his research about the split brain. he did many research and expiriments before his final answer. he was a very hard working man, he figured about the split brain occurs when the corpus collosum connest to the two cerebral hemispheres.
6. karl Wernicke was an German man that was an physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. he researched on brain damage especially with language and speech. He figured out that the daage for that results came from the Broca area because his discovery this region is called the wernicke area.
7.The occipital lobe is responsible for the vision.
8.the temporal lobe is responsible for hearing and language.
9. the frontal lobe is reponsible for the math calculations
10. the frontal lobe is most responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse control?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broca
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/articles/sperry/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wernicke
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/kinser/Structure1.html

PHINEAS GAGE

1.phineas gage was agreat and nice man everyone like to be around. He was an American railroad construction foreman, which had a huge accident one day.

2. Phineas had a huge accident ne day while working hard. a very large iron rod passed through his eye passing part of his brain. the frontal lobe was the part of his brain destroyed. this was caused because of the type of work he did.

3. after this injury occured to Gage he was not the same person everyone liked to be around. He was now a very mean guy. Becasue of his frontal lobe was destroyed his whole personality change a lot and was very mean and rude to everyone at all times. He was a whole new person everyone avioded now.

4. Gage because of his accident was tested and expirimented and help them understand what actually was occuring because of his frontal lobe destroyed. we all learned that without the frontal lbe you an't control your emotions, and your whole personality changes. many people may get really mad because of the harsh and mean thisngs told; because of the frontal lobe destroyed. all brain parts are important and a small mistake in one part may change you to a new person.

5. the idea of brain localization is to know what is incharge of each functions made. every part of your brain has their specific job they have to complete to be a normal person with normal functions of the brain. that way doctors or other specialists know which part of the brain is not working well, and can give you an accurate explanation.

6. brain letarization is saying that the brain is divided in 2 parts, each one with different functions. the left and right part of the brain are not exactly alike.

http://www.neuroskills.com/tbi/bfrontal.shtml
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~bbrown/psyc1501/brain/loclat.htm
http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/brain.html

Athletic Ability

Why are some people more athletic than others? There could be many reasons explaining that, some athletes just come from a big family that are active in sports and are good at it, they are born with that great ability to make the sport look easy at first sight. Even though some people are very perseverant and practice a lot to make the best and finish accomplishing it. In my opinion having an athletic ability has both nature and nurture. I think this way because of the situation I live, both of my parents have never been good at sports, and neither my brothers are that good for the first instant. For some reason I find sports really easy and I am good at every sport I have tried, so in this case athletic ability is not connecting with nature. I have also seen that my cousin one year younger than me is great at swimming and both of her parents were great at swimming also, my uncle went to the Olympics once, and now my cousin is starting to train for the next Olympics and she is only 14. Genetics plays a lot in this example. So who knows exactly which of them is more accurate in athletic ability? Is it nature or is it nurture.

According to Darrell, "The nature verses nurture issues of sports is very controversial". His examples are based on real and excellent athletic people. As a nurture example he uses the great basketball siblings the Miller’s, if they are both at the same sport meaning they have the ability and the height too play the sport, in that case genetics is somehow connected with the athletic ability. Also genetics is passed by a parent to a son as Ken Griffey Jr. and Ken Griffey Sr. that are “probably the most famous father-son duo in baseball history, both big stars.” Darrell also thinks the opposite of the athletics ability. He also thinks that because of training in a good and way you can create a fabulous athlete. As a great soccer player called Laureano Ruiz says “that 80% of soccer can develop into great athletes with proper training. He also believes that reaching the top is a marathon, not a sprint. In order to develop your true potential, you must work as hard as you can, and commit every bit of your spare time training, striving to become a better player.” So according to Darrell based on his personal research and comments from many athletes, in this case nature and nurture are really important. I you are a great athlete it might because of your genes, but your still have to perfect and fix and tiny you may have.

In conclusion, my hypothesis or thought about the athletic ability was correct according to the research I looked at. Being a person good at sports does not make you skip you practice, practice will make you better, and realize the mistakes, because nobody is perfect. Every single athlete in the world is good because of their trainings even though some have an easier ability to understand and to get things quicker. I came to my conclusion that nature and nurture play a strong role in every athlete of the world.

Darrell, "Expert Football." nature vs Nurture in Sports. N.p., 2009. Web. 8 Sep 2010. <http://expertfootball.com/training/naturevsnurture.php