What is VS Ramachandran known for?

What is VS Ramachandran known for?

Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is an Indian-American neuroscientist. He is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box.

Which area of the brain does Ramachandran from the video believe is largely responsible for existence of phantom limbs?

As Ramachandran pointed out, in the parietal lobe, the dynamic body image was then compared to the actual sense impressions. The co-existence of these two bodies, the internal dynamic body image and the external physical body provided a framework for explaining phantom limbs.

What did Ramachandran do to solve the problem of the pain in a phantom limb?

In the 1990s Ramachandran used a ‘mirror box’ to ‘resurrect’ phantom limbs and thus to treat the pain that often accompanied them. The experimental success of his mirror therapy led Ramachandran to see mirrors as a useful model of brain function, a tendency that explains his attraction to work on ‘mirror neurons’.

What is Dr Ramachandran’s theory about why touching a man’s face would cause him to feel touch on his phantom hand?

Sure enough, when touching a patient’s face on the same side as an amputated limb, the patient reported that he could feel the sensation in his phantom missing limb. What this proved, he explains, is that the brain is constantly remapping itself as we age.

What is the advantage of possessing a convoluted ie folded cerebrum as seen with a human brain compared to a sheep brain that is smooth and round?

There is a clear advantage to such cortical folding. Having a thinner, folded cortex means information transfer from one point in the brain to another covers less distance and can happen far more rapidly.

What is the brain plasticity theory?

Neural plasticity, also known as neuroplasticity or brain plasticity, can be defined as the ability of the nervous system to change its activity in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganizing its structure, functions, or connections.

What explanation does Ramachandran give for the disorder?

Given that the right brain hemisphere is damaged, Dr. Ramachandran has proposed a theory that each hemisphere has different coping strategies and that these may eventually explain the neural basis of many sorts of self-deception.

Can you be a psychopath and an empath?

People who score high in “dark triad” personality traits are able to empathize.

Do psychopaths lack mirror neurons?

Research has indicated that psychopaths might have an impaired mirror neuron system — that is, difficulties with the neurons that, in a healthy brain, activate both when we perceive someone else doing an action and when we do that same action ourselves.

How does the sheep brain compare to the human brain identify at least two differences?

The sheep brain is similar to the human brain in that they both have two brain stems, two optic nerves and two hemispheres; but they differ in size and in functions. 2. The human brain is heavier and longer than a sheep’s brain.