Good Movie Review About The Mysteries Of The Brain

1.a) According to Ramachandran, patients who are suffering from a delusion disorder known as capgras believe their close relatives are aliens or an imposter. This belief occurs when the brain chemistry experiences changes that results from physical trauma of the brain or mental illness.
b) He believes that he is his mom after recognizing the voice over the phone. This is explained by the fact that our auditory system and visual systems differ in connections to the amygdale.
2. a) Ramachandran argues that an amputed leg or arm to feel the “phantom limb” since there a link between neural plasticity and the phenomenon of the limb in the human brain. After the limb’s amputation, the body image maps continue to be re-mapped.
b) Through learning somatosensory cortex in the brain store body image maps that are remapped during the process.
c) According to Ramachandran, the mirror box enhances the treatment of the “phantom limb” through providing the necessary feedback.
3. a) Synesthesia is a neurological experience or phenomenon where simulation of one cognitive pathway or sensory lead to involuntary experiences that is automatic in a second pathway or sensory.
b) Ramachandran argues that new babies are born with very interconnected brain that later becomes trimmed naturally as they grow. However, some genetic conditions may inhibit this natural trimming resulting to Synesthesia.
c) Yes, I correctly identified the Kiki and the Buba due to cross wiring of my brain.
d) I knew the Martian alphabet because our family has cross wiring that increased my metaphorical creativity and thinking.
e) The cross wiring of the brain improves one’s ability to understand abstract and metaphors concepts.