The Nerve, Fall 2013, Vol 5, Issue 1

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Full Issue: The Nerve, Fall 2013, Vol 5, Issue 1

Editors-In-Chief: Shelbi Ferber, Kameron Clayton
Editors:Tom Meeus, Hailee Reeves, Kayla Epstein, Amanda Carlozzi, Ajay Naik, Kayla Epstein, Lauren Joseph
Writers:Carolyn Ross, Chioma Amenechi, Elizabeth Tingley, J. Daniel Bireley, Katherine Callaway, Alicia Van Enoo, Justin Tepe, Rachel Franklin, Carolyn Michener, Allison Macika
Artists:Rachael Murphy, Tim Castano, Emily Horton, Benjamin Lawson
Design & Layout: Benjamin Lawson

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    Review of "Towards a cognitive computational model of music composition"
    (2013) Clayton, Kameron
    The intersection of music and the brain can be approached in many ways: some researchers would want to know how waves of air pressure are synthesized into a cohesive sound in our brains, others may desire to understand the neural learning processes or innate wiring by which a musician becomes a stunning virtuoso. However, among all the facets of music, there is one aspect upon which the entire musical world is dependent, the role of the composer.
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    Speech in Parkindon's disease
    (2013) Michener, Carolyn
    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, trailing only behind Alzheimer’s disease. PD is caused by a lack of dopamine producing cells, resulting in tremor, rigidity of body, bradykinesia (slow movements), and problems with balance. Degeneration of a midbrain area called the Substantia Nigra leads to inhibition of the motor cortex; the midbrain degeneration “has the effect of a stuck brake on an automobile or a bicycle.” The effect PD has on motor control can affect basic functions such as walking and speech production, which will change the lifestyle of numerous patients with Parkinson’s disease as the size of the elderly population—who have the highest incidence of PD—increases. In particular, PD affects speech quality through associations with several types of speech disorders that cause difficulty in the ability to communicate with others; because no cure for PD exists, these speech effects are permanent, but therapies that allow patients with PD to manage loss of speech control rather are emerging.
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    Song & stroke
    (2013) Macika, Allison
    Five years ago, then eleven-year-old Laurel Fontaine suffered from an ischemic stroke that caused her devastating damage, leaving about 80 percent of the left side of her brain—her language-dominant hemisphere—completely destroyed. Following the stroke, doctors told Laurel and her family it was unlikely that she would recover motor function. She would also likely never walk, talk, or do any other typical motor activities of children her age.
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    Neuroscience and nutrition: how we perceive food and its effecrs on the mind, body, and brain
    (2013) Tepe, Justin
    Our need to eat is more primal than our desire to have sex. We must eat several times a day and our survival depends on it. Our choices of what we eat affect our health and the functioning of our mind and body. We have all heard the expression, “you are what you eat,” but why do we eat the foods we do? How do they affect us? In fact, there are strong psychological and physiological factors that underscore the dependencies we have on food. Nutrition affects the health of the brain and the body as a whole. We use nutrients obtained from our diets to provide energy to our calorie-demanding brains, which require more energy than any other organ in the body.
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    The Nerve, Fall 2013, Vol 5, Issue 1
    (2013) Tepe, Justin; Macika, Allison; Michener, Carolyn; Clayton, Kameron