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Introduction. During puberty, the young body undergoes transformation not only within the reproductive and hormonal systems, but also significant changes in the central nervous system (CNS). Matured neural connections improve the integration of distant brain regions, the plasticity of neurons increases, and thus specialization of the brain occurs in the performance of specific tasks. During these transformations, both neurons and the accompanying neuroglia are sensitive to all toxic factors, among which ethanol occupies a special place. It causes an increase in the activity of glial cells, which by directing pro-inflammatory cytokines directly contribute to the death of apoptotic neurons. A long-lasting and irreversible impairment of brain function, especially in the hippocampus occurs as a result of alcohol abuse during the period of development. Aim. This paper presents an overview of current knowledge about the effects of alcohol on neuroglia in the developing brain and in adults. Materials and methods. The literature review of the following databases has been conducted: EBSCO, PubMed, Science Direct, Springer Link. Conclusions. The results of alcohol research have shown that it affects the neurotransmission and fluidity of cell membranes, changing the activity of neurons. By binding to GABA receptor (GABA) and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDA receptor for glutamate), ethanol suppresses brain function. In addition to increased sensitivity and susceptibility to the addictive effects of ethanol, the neurogeneration activity is intensified followed by the induction and release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, which in the first stage disrupt the cortical function hindering logical thinking and disrupting the limbic system, directly affecting the memory and learning processes. Next, the cerebellum is attacked, which results in the impairment of balance and motor coordination, and consequently acts on the brain stem, directly affecting the respiratory and circulatory control centers.
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Regulatory RNAs in the brain

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Nervous system is characterized by its uniqueness in cells origin, their variability, electrical properties of the nervous cell membrane, response to external signals, neuronal network and changes in synapses activity that are the basis of higher brain functions, such as learning and memory. Brain is a superior organ of human body with an extremely efficient regulation system. Apart from protein and small-molecule regulators, ribonucleic acids (RNAs), especially noncoding proteins (ncRNAs), play a crucial controlling role in the brain. They are present in every cell, from bacteria to primates and have regulatory, catalytic as well as structural function. Many specific ncRNAs have been identified in human brain, responsible for development and functioning. Disturbances in ncRNA synthesis and mechanism of action are connected to diseases such as autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer disease, Prader-Willi syndrome and others.
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In this paper the research of art perception by people with hearing disorder has been presented. This study has been performed from the perspective of special pedagogy and neuroesthetic. The encephalography technique and QEEG analysis has been performed with usage of Mitsar-EEG-202 head. This device is controlled by WinEEG software which allows qualitative and quantitative analysis many aspects of EEG signals integrated with two physiological sensors: rhythm of heard and amplitudes of blade pulse and breathing. The results of this study shown usability of the proposed research process for identification new research topics in area of special pedagogy. They also illustrated as many important information about influence of disorder on functioning disable person may be collected by such study. This related in this case to neurological aspects of art perception by by people with hearing disorder.
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Does Brain Stutter?

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Currently, stuttering studies focused on central nervous system pathology are one of those which develop most dynamically. Stutterers display various disorders within the anatomy of centres which control realization and abnormal lateralization of language functions, as well as functional disorders. Abundant research has proved that stutterers display disturbed functional brain asymmetry. The left hemisphere speech representation in a stutterer’s brain is marked less clearly than in the case of fluent speakers. Speech fluency comes from realizing the motor plan, which is abnormally synchronised in a stutterer’s brain. Similarly, stuttering people display incorrect cooperation between the language program and its motor performance. Dysfunctions are observed not only in the expressive speech areas, but also in the hearing centres, whose proper functioning is vital for normal course of speech. Research has showed the disturbed auditory feedback control of speech among stutterers, which is thought to be caused by anatomical and functional abnormalities within the brain hearing area. Results of studies concerning stutterers’ brain structure and functioning point to numerous abnormalities observed in the whole functional system of speech. Importantly, these functional differences occur among stutterers during actual speech and even when speaking is only visualized in the stutterer’s mind.
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Nadciśnienie tętnicze (hypertension, HTN) jest jednym z najbardziej rozpowszechnionych przewlekłych problemów zdrowotnych wśród osób dorosłych w społeczeństwach uprzemysłowionych. Ponad 68 milionów ludzi na świecie ma zbyt wysokie ciśnienie krwi i jedynie 50% spośród nich znajduje się pod kontrolą lekarską. Na uwagę zasługuje obszerność literatury potwierdzająca wpływ czynników behawioralnych, psychologicznych i społecznych na częstość występowania i utrzymania choroby wieńcowej oraz nadciśnienia tętniczego. W ciągu minionych 50 lat szeroko zakrojone badania udokumentowały wpływ stresu i czynników dyspozycyjnych w etiologii obu chorób. Ponadto, coraz częściej podkreślane są te następstwa nadciśnienia tętniczego, które w sposób bezpośredni oddziałują na ośrodkowy układ nerwowy (OUN), a w konsekwencji na szeroko rozumiane funkcjonowanie poznawcze. Niestety przegląd obszernej literatury przedmiotu skłania do wniosku, że problemy neuropsychologiczne osób z HTN rozpatruje się często w nadmiernie wycinkowy sposób. Artykuły w głównej mierze koncentrują się na tradycyjnych aspektach psychosomatycznych choroby, takich jak emocje czy stres, a pomijają potencjalne konsekwencje poznawcze HTN. Funkcjonowanie ośrodkowego układu nerwowego rozpatruje się wyłącznie na tle chorób naczyniowych mózgu. W rezultacie niedocenia się negatywnego wpływu HTN na funkcjonowanie ośrodkowego układu nerwowego, a tym samym na przedwczesny proces starzenia się mózgu, którego wyrazem są naczyniowe ograniczenia poznawcze. Z tego powodu treść niniejszego artykułu koncentrując się przede wszystkim na współczesnych badaniach, podsumowuje bieżącą wiedzę na temat behawioralnych, psychologicznych i mózgowych korelatów chorób układu sercowo-naczyniowego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem nadciśnienia tętniczego.
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Hypertension (HTN) is one of the most prevalent chronic health problems among adults in industrialized societies. More than 68 million people worldwide have high blood pressure, and only 50% of them are under medical supervision. Noteworthy is voluminous literature confirming the impact of behavioral, psychological and social factors on the incidence and maintenance of coronary artery disease and hypertension. Over the past 50 years, extensive research has documented the impact of stress and dispositional factors in the etiology of those both diseases. The consequences of high blood pressure, which directly affect the central nervous system, and thus the cognitive functioning, are emphasized. Unfortunately, a comprehensive review of the literature leads to the conclusion that the neuropsychological problems of patients with HTN are insufficiently highlighted. Articles mainly focus on the traditional aspects of psychosomatic issues, such as emotions or stress, and ignore the potential cognitive consequences of HTN. The functioning of the central nervous system is considered in context of various cerebrovascular diseases. Consequently, the negative impact of the HTN on functioning of the central nervous system as well as premature ageing of the brain reflected by vascular cognitive impairment are underestimated. The content of this article focuses primarily on contemporary research. It also summarizes the current knowledge about the behavioral, psychological and brain correlates of dysfunctions of the cardiovascular system, with a particular emphasis on hypertension.
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In recentyears, we have witnessed an intensive development of many New areas of research and scientific research, to chich undoubtedly belong those referred to as neuroscience, thatis, focusing on the study of the human brain and nervous system. In my speech I would like to review opinions on possibile attempts to relate brain research results to school conditions as well as teaching and learning concepts. The following concepts will be analyzed: neurodidactics, neuropedagogy and neuroeducation. I will also present my proposition of under standing neuroeducation as anactivity focused on: 1) development of cognitive processes of learners and awareness of the existence of these processes; 2) education of learning process management, 3) getting to know and better understanding of the learning process through the prism of functioning: brain, mind and education. Neuroeducation understood in this way is, in my opinion, a chance for a new perspective of in sight into learning processes and, in the longer term, teaching. It can therefore be addressed to pupils and students, but also to teachers. The direction of neuroeducation thought outlined in the article, in my opinion, fits in with the thinking about constructivist variation, objectivist today (according to Dorota Klus-Stańska) paradigm of neurodidactics.
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In this paper the research of art perception by people with hearing disorder has been presented. This study has been performed from the perspective of special pedagogy and neuroesthetic. The encephalography technique and QEEG analysis has been performed with usage of Mitsar-EEG-202 head. This device is controlled by WinEEG software which allows qualitative and quantitative analysis many aspects of EEG signals integrated with two physiological sensors: rhythm of heard and amplitudes of blade pulse and breathing. The results of this study shown usability of the proposed research process for identification new research topics in area of special pedagogy. They also illustrated as many important information about influence of disorder on functioning disable person may be collected by such study. This related in this case to neurological aspects of art perception by by people with hearing disorder.
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Art and the notion of beauty related thereto are both disciplines and states which are quite unobvious and thereby requiring us to ask the question: Why is it that human beings have in their minds an inherent need to witness the beauty along with - resultant - need to create and receive art? The author of the text - by devising some neurobiological tools - attempts to elicit relative laws of beauty reception, and simultaneously she utilises the instruments of neuroaesthetics, which is a field of science that investigates the impact of art on processes taking place in the human brain. She explores, among other things, mechanisms put to use, consciously or otherwise, by artists in order to make their works a peculiar stimulus. The author describes a series of “tricks” used by visual arts creators who model the particular ways the visual perception processes function.
Logopedia
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2017
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vol. 46 EN
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One of the most interesting problems concerning human speech is the complicated two-way correlation between language and the brain. The present article attempts to answer the question how multilingualism is represented in people suffering from aphasia-spectrum disorders. What are the results of a brain stroke on speech centres? It should be noted that monitoring patients with aphasic speech disorders plays a significant role in understanding brain dysfunctions and is a source in creating models of learning processes and brain functions. The latest research into aphasia constitutes one of the few possibilities of getting answers to the question concerning the representation of language activity occurring in the brain. Does the theory postulating separate representation of various languages in different regions of the brain in a polyglot still find its supporters? The article explains the terms of multilingualism and aphasia, together with its causes. The remaining part of the article analyses the factors that play a significant role in the process of language restitution.
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Human consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the brain but also in an external network, a symbolic system. This symbolic system is defined as an exocerebrum. The exocerebrum is a system of artificial cultural prostheses that substitute functions the brain cannot carry out through exclusively biological means. The exocerebrum is a symbolic system that substitutes the cerebral circuits that are incapable by themselves of completing functions that are characteristic of human mental behavior. The brain is not capable of processing symbols without the help of an external system essentially made up of speech, symbols, the non-discursive forms of communication (such as music, dance, and painting), and the exterior artificial memories (from writing to the Internet). We are in the presence of a continual spectrum, one in which there is no need to draw a dividing line between the brain and the exocerebrum, between the neuronal circuits and the cultural prostheses.
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The article aims at presenting the description of the category of ‘animal’ in the human brain, mind and language. The article reports the results of linguistic, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research.
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Despite intensive studies of a large number of fossils discovered during the 20th century there is no consensus as to the interpretation of the process of hominin evolution. Some authors see as many as six genera and some 17 species, while others argue for a single lineage from Plio/Pleistocene until today. Such diversity of interpretations of the same facts indicates lack of a uniform theoretical basis underlying studies of human evolution. Debates can be resolved using basic principles of scientific inquiry - parsimony and falsification of null hypotheses. Hypothesis testing is now possible with respect to the evolution of basic hominin characteristics such as brain size, body size and the size of the dentition that have sample sizes of a few hundred individual data points each. These characters display a continuous change with time. Analyses of variance do not falsify the null hypothesis of the existence of only one species at any time - variances around regression lines on time do not differ from the variance observed in the single species of Homo sapiens - distributions of residuals are normal. Thus, splitting of the hominin lineage into coeval species can only be based on descriptive characteristics that are liable to errors of subjective judgment.
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Mimo bogactwa materiałów zgromadzonych w ubiegłym stuleciu, wśród autorów zajmujących się antropogenezą brakuje jednomyślności w rozumieniu tego procesu. Niektórzy z nich utrzymują, że w ciągu ostatnich 5 milionów lat istniało 17, lub nawet więcej gatunków homininów, inni twierdzą, że było ich znacznie mniej - może zaledwie 2, a nawet, że ewolucja człowieka przebiegła w obrębie jednej, niedzielącej się, linii rozwojowej. Różne są także interpretacje pojawienia się dwunożności i przyczyn wzrostu względnych rozmiarów mózgowia. Nadal toczą się spory o rolę neandertalczyków i pochodzenie ludzi o współczesnych cechach morfologicznych. Taka różnorodność interpretacji tej samej bazy faktograficznej wskazuje na słabość podstaw teoretycznych, jakimi posługują się zwolennicy rozmaitych koncepcji. Słabość ta wynika najprawdopodobniej z tego, że badacze antropogenezy rekrutują się spośród absolwentów wielu dyscyplin, zarówno humanistycznych jak i przyrodniczych (rzadko biologii) oraz stosują heterogeniczne paradygmaty i niejednolite definicje podstawowych pojęć, takich jak gatunek, gen czy specjacja. Przy tym, ze względu na światopoglądowe znaczenie wyjaśnienia naszego pochodzenia, istnieją uwarunkowania pozanaukowe - ideologiczne, którym różni autorzy ulegają świadomie lub podświadomie (ryc. 1).W tej sytuacji trzeba zmierzać do rozstrzygnięcia istniejących sporów stosując podstawowe zasady postępowania naukowego - falsyfikację hipotez w oparciu o odpowiednio liczne, jednolicie mierzone lub opisywane, materiały. Takie podejście jest możliwe w stosunku do licznych już obserwacji dotyczących podstawowych cech hominidów, takich jak wielkość mózgu, rozmiary ciała i uzębienia. Cechy te zmieniały się w ciągu ostatnich 3-4 milionów lat w sposób ciągły, nie wykazując rozszczepiania w procesach specjacji. Analiza wariancji rozkładów tych cech w poszczególnych okresach chronologicznych nie pozwala odrzucić hipotezy zerowej, stanowiącej, że rozkłady te nie różnią się wielkością wariancji wewnątrzgrupowej od rozkładu charakteryzującego pojedynczy, i jedyny żyjący obecnie, gatunekHomo sapiens(ryc. 2). Rozkład indywidualnych rozmiarów mózgów 210 homininów wokół linii ich regresji na czas geologiczny nie różni się istotnie od rozkładu normalnego. Podobnie, rozkłady wielkości ciała po usunięciu efektu czasu (datowania) nie odbiegają od normalności (ryc. 3). Wielkość uzębienia rozmaitych postulowanych gatunków homininów, z wyjątkiem masywnych australopiteków, waha się w granicach nie przekraczających różnic pomiędzy rozmaitymi populacjami człowieka współczesnego (ryc. 4).Nie da się zatem, w oparciu o te podstawowe cechy, sfalsyfikować hipotezy, że w ciągu ostatnich 3-4 milionów lat istniał w każdym momencie tylko jeden gatunek człowieka (lub jego przodka). Akceptacja hipotezy alternatywnej, o wielogatunkowości, może być rozważana tylko w oparciu o cechy bardziej szczegółowe, mierzone (opisywane) mniej obiektywnie, których próby mają mniejszą liczebność, a interpretacja wartości przystosowawczej nie zawsze jest jasna. Badania antropogenezy winny w tej sytuacji skoncentrować się na wyjaśnianiu ewolucji przystosowań ludzkich, a nie na formalnej opisowej klasyfikacji poszczególnych znalezisk.
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Neuropsychologia jesieni życia

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Psychologia Rozwojowa
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2012
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vol. 17
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Contemporary debate on human aging is intensive and multifaceted in nature because of agerelated transformation in many contemporary societies, i.e. a rapid increase of mean life expectancy (increasing numbers of healthy old people). The aim of this article is to discuss changes in brain and behavior that occur in later life. Life-span developmental neuropsychology emphasizes a close relationship between cognitive problems in later life and age-related loss of large neurons in some parts of the brain. Large neurons shrink into smaller neuron classes. The most pronounced atrophic changes have been reported in the prefrontal area, hippocampus, ubstantianigra and locus cinereus. This article presents also common clinical conditions of later life, such as differential diagnosis of age-associated behavioral changes and dementias. There may be multiple causes of neurogeriatric disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. There has been considerable interest in the possible causative role of cognitive and brain reserve which differs among individuals. Therefore between-individual heterogeneity related to normal cognitive aging is signifi cant. Namely, if cerebral pathology occurs (e.g., neurodegeneration with dementia), persons with a greater reserve may not demonstrate the same cognitive impact as others with the same pathology (e.g. lesion size) but less reserve. It is also widely believed that mental difficulties in lder adults cannot be easily attributed to psychomotor slowness which may reflect a loss of white matter tissue, i.e. dysmielinisation of nerve fibers. This article emphasizes an importance of ecologically valid assessment of older adults, whose everyday activities and real--world abilities cannot be predicted by the traditional tests and sophisticated procedures emerging from purely experimental investigations.
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The article deals with the role of neuroscience in education. For educational purposes, it is crucial to know how the brain works as learning is a brain-based activity. In the article, the reader can also find the basic brain-based teaching principles
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Intraoperative Electrical Stimulation (IES) of the brain is performed to localise and spare language functional areas before extraction of brain tissue in patients with tumors and epilepsy. The procedure is very precise and highly effective. Yet, it is argued that language tests used during IES are too limited. This article presents new language tests that have a potential of minimising post-operative risk to language function. It is a continuation of a previous study (Połczyńska 2008) and it contains extended versions of earlier presented tests, as well as new tests designed in three sets: (1) Grammar-focused tests for the dominant left hemisphere, (2) Non-dominant righthemisphere tests and (3) Tests for the subcortex. To assure maximum safety and efficiency of the tests before they are used during IES for the first time, it is suggested that they are first used with patients with intractable epilepsy who have a multielectrode subdural grid implanted onto their cortex to trace the source of seizures. The subdural grid gives a chance to carry out an electrical stimulation of those areas of the cortex which are covered with a grid. This type of language mapping is carried out in a ward and is not time-limited.
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Chojak Małgorzata, Neuropedagogika wśród dyscyplin naukowych – próba doprecyzowania nazewnictwa [Neuropedagogy Among Scientific Disciplines – an Attempt to Clarify Terminology]. Studia Edukacyjne nr 56, 2020, Poznań 2020, pp. 369-384. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 1233-6688. DOI: 10.14746/se.2020.56.20 In the last two decades, more and more publications pedagogical and psychological referring to researchin the field of neurobiology. They appear in them new concepts and names of new disciplines such as neuropedagogy, neurodidactics or educational neuroscience and neuropsychology education. The US, the UK and Canada have attempted to standardize terminology and to clarify the scope of research across disciplines. This publication is not only an attempt to present the theoretical concept of the origin and interrelationships of newly established disciplines based on international scientific sources. The author has decided to embed analyses on the specifics of Polish terms to propose names for an interesting and new field known as Mind, Brain and Education (MBE).
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The article shows the growing interest of science fiction cinema in the human brain and related concepts, such as mind or consciousness. Nowadays, when distant space travel seems unreachable, artists find the exploration potential of the brain very promising. Thus, the main thesis of this analysis says that the brain has become for science fiction cinema the new universe. An excellent example of this paradigm shift is Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2010). In the movie, the mind is depicted as a physical and accessible place, where we can find a lot of mysteries to solve. The characters travel to the deepest parts of subconsciousness because the processes inside the brain are the key to understanding and changing the real world. The article also shows how the director uses the achievements of science fiction cinema and, at the same time, that he postulates a new way of considering the issues relevant to modern neuroscience.
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The article presents the character of the zombie popular in the contemporary audio-visual culture by placing it in the context of post humanist paradigm. He concentrates on the brain symbolism representative for the character, which, in the classical understanding of the living dead, due to dissimilar functioning, makes it different from humans and their brain-like traits: the mind and heart. Analysing the recent films such as Warm Bodies and The Girl with All the Gifts, he demonstrates the present inadequacy of such a division. Unlike the classical Night of the Living Dead, they are in line with post anthropocentric and new materialism philosophy, by differently symbolically depicting the role and place of the human in the world. It is presently tantamount to the place of non-humans: animals, objects, artefacts and monsters including the living dead. The change of the cultural and film paradigm observed in zombie horrors indicates a deeper strategy of authors of those popular films.
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The article outlines the development of neuropsychology abroad and in our country, in the former Czechoslovakia, enriched by the experiences from work in neuropsychological laboratory in Psychiatric Centre at Heiloo, Netherlands. The state of neuropsychological diagnostic and ensuing rehabilitation of persons with brain afflictions is discussed and the influence of Alexander Romanovich Luria, who was one of the founders of both clinical and theoretical neuropsychology, is underlined. The author present the model of „a closed circle“ as a model of possible neuropsychological rehabilitation in psychiatry. The article concludes by outlining prospects of the field of neuropsychology.
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Příspěvek nastiňuje přehled vývoje oboru neuropsychologie ve světě i u nás, v tehdejším Československu doplněný zkušenostmi z práce v neuropsychologické laboratoři v Psychiatrickém centru v Heiloo v Nizozemí. Je pojednán stav neuropsychologické diagnostiky a následné rehabilitace jedinců s postiţením mozku. Je podtrţen vliv Alexandra Romanoviče Luriji, který stál u vzniku klinické i teoretické neuropsychologie. Autor představuje model "uzavřeného kruhu" - jako model moţné neuropsychologické rehabilitace v psychiatrii. V závěru příspěvku je načrtnut výhled oboru neuropsychologie.
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