by Basel Varsally

Created on: July 01, 2010   Last Updated: July 07, 2010

Psychology is looking at the Human mind with its other differing aspects. The basics of the mind are its exposed and hidden faculties. Known names in psychology such as Sigmund Freud and Ivan Pavlov all held their unique view about how people behave and why. As curiosity drives our minds to think, as a parent have you ever wondered why your daughter matures faster than your son? Have you ever wondered why we appreciate music and hold it as sacred and important and why we enjoy it? Can we stay young forever? And why do teens behave the way they do?

Its very strange that we possess very complicated things yet know nothing about them. We are familiar with our bodies; they’re no different in many ways. But our minds have two parts: the physical and the mental. They’re always working together. One thing remarkable about the brain though is its plasticity. One company treats children who are not fast at processing a response to a produced sound such as speech with unique software called “Fast ForWord” developed by Scientific Learning Corp. Nicole Davis, a patient of the software managed to spring her speech abilities and reading abilities through a six week period and with some effort of work. What is the lesson here? The brain’s nature is truly something out of the ordinary. Its uniqueness makes a promising approach and makes ways for new solutions to be possible when encountering and fighting ailments thanks to its ability to learn new tricks. No one can create a comparison between a computer and the brain. One is fixed towards something, the other isn’t. You break a computer chip (the brain of the computer) and it’s gone. You injure your brain, and with time and training, it rewires itself. Our job is this “how do we repair the impairments of mankind?”

Certainly, my favorite thing about psychology and what really made me into it was the study of how music affects our brains. Turn your favorite song, and feelings of adrenaline trigger you to kick it on the floor or maybe vivid images come up in your mind or emotions spring up, really music puts us in another world. But why does music play such a big role on the psyche? Music by definition is a form of complex human behavior. The only problem on why its least understood is we don’t study it as much as most of us don’t really know that’s a kind of behavior like any other and should be researched. Our right hemisphere of the brain in which

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