Your Roommate Is Taking an Anatomy Class and Has Noticed

question 105

Essay

Your roommate is taking an anatomy class and has noticed differences in the brains of younger and older rats. She knows ethical reasons prohibit euthanizing humans to examine their brains, and asks you how we learn about adolescent human brains. What can you tell her about how human brains are studied?

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Definitions:

Group Therapy

is a form of psychotherapy in which a therapist works with a group of patients simultaneously, leveraging group dynamics to foster healing and personal growth.

Person-centered Therapist

A therapist who practices a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the client's self-discovery and actualization, and involves creating a non-judgmental, empathic, and accepting therapy environment, as developed by Carl Rogers.

Transference

In psychotherapy, the process by which emotions originally associated with one person, typically from early life, are unconsciously shifted onto the therapist.

Psychosurgery

Surgical procedures that alter brain tissue to treat mental disorders; a form of neuroscience treatment.