Wrapping up The Brain--Reflection

This film was very interesting and answered a lot of questions, but also posed many more. There were some positive and negative implications. The knowledge that was acquired in this film could lead to other scientific discoveries about the brain. One example would be how we could use the knowledge that in a pyschopath's brain, a certain part is smaller that affects their emotions, specifically remorse. We could use this information to try and maybe help the people with brains of psychopaths and possibly stop all the killing. Another implication could be found in the base jumping example. The high wears off and the brain needs a different or more dangerous cliff to have a better high. We could use this information to maybe make a pill that keeps that same high so that it would be less dangerous and the jumpers don't have to go out and find new cliffs everytime.

The knowledge from this video came from many different sources. The navy seals information came from observations and different situations. Information about the most amnesiac man in the world was found by observation and also experiments. Mostly all the knowledge was found through experiments to see where activity in the brain is. The film showed where all the different emotions occurred in the brain, or where the activity occurred. There was some problems with parts of the experiments that happened in this video. For example, the experiment of the orgasm could have had some faults because they couldn't get all of them to have an orgasm. It was difficult because they were in an experimental room and it's hard! Also, what was the point of that experiment?

Overall, I really liked this movie. It was very interesting, and I learned new things I never would have known before. What do the other parts of the brain control? Does everyone get a high from base jumping or is everyone different and have their own way of getting a high? Is that considered an addiction?