YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE HOW YOUR BRAIN THINKS

Source: http://www.techdigest.tv

Two people take a test, both studied for the same amount of time and know just the same. But when they both got to a question they don’t know the answer for, that is where they split on their choices. One student takes the safe route and thinks through what they know and gets an answer and hopes its right. But, for the other student, they choose to try their luck with cheating off the person next to him. That is the difference between them, and it could be a sign that student 2 might want to see the doctor, and that is because he might have a brain injury.

1. A person’s mind uses two different pieces that do the job independently then put it together to make the proper decision in the place. When we find out what part of the brain does each, we can help deal with the people that have mental impairments.
2. In a article entitled Making Decisions: How your brain thinks, A study was conducted at the University of Iowa to find out that type of information by reviewing data on brain lesions from scans from the past 30 years to find out just what areas were being affected.
3. Once they finished looking through the data, they came to the conclusion that the two different portions of the brain that are being affected are the vmPFC and dlPFC.
4. They found that impairment to the dlPFC causes problems with people’s choices as well as separating two contradicting ideas such as the word red being colored green.
5. The other impairment to the vmPFC can lead to problems with the actual assessment of the risk of a situation, which they tested for by telling people that two sets of cards have different odds of them winning. For the test, deck 1 had a 80% chance that it would be a right card but would win them 10 dollars, whereas deck 2 would only have a 20% of the right card but would win them 100 dollars. Different people would constantly pick the riskier decision rather than just going with the more safe option.
6. This finding, although it re enforces some information we already had, can lead to helping with finding the roots of different mental disorders, as well leading to new treatments for them.
7. This is finding, in my eyes, is a huge step in the way we can treat and assist those who have gone through some kind of mental issues, such as clinical depression, ADHD, and maybe even autism.

All in all, this discovering can lead to findings in the way we make our choices, as well as finding the causes to some of our common mental disorders. The idea of understanding our choices and how we make them can assist the research of why we purchase what we do. So therefore, student 2 might want to push his check up to a closer date, cause it may just show something bigger that needs to be addressed.

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