Zombies are corpses that have risen from the grave and are in varying degrees of decomposition.
Zombies are monster that are focused on eating human flesh, though most of the time they are portrayed wanting brains.
A zombie is controlled by rage and hunger (making for some hangry undead dudes).
Damage to a zombie's frontal cortex, ventromedial hypothalamus, and the amygdala can occur while the zombie is decomposing.
The ventromedial hypthalamus tells your body when you're full, creating the hungry part of zombification.
The amygdala controls emotions and memory, making a zombie forget their friends and family, while also making them angry.
The frontal cortex is responsible for problem solving, morality, and inhibiting impulsive action. This creates for an impulsive, non-guilty, dumbed down dead person.
All of these parts of the brain help with keeping someone human and when they are damaged, which can happen alive or dead, lead to some radical consequences.
Now, the part where a zombie comes back to life.
A zombie can come back to life through a lot of supernatural means, most commonly through spells.
A witch, not to be confused with a wiccan as we know from an earlier part, can cast a spell to reanimate the decaying corpse.
Most of the time, this is for evil.
Also, considering the witch reanimated the corpse, the witch can most likely control it.
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Yay! Another update!
This wasn't really coming to me, considering I knew practically nothing about zombies when I first started.
It was only when I started this term paper I had for a science grade did I start to learn more about zombies and what can create a zombie-like person.
It's a pretty weird project.
But anyways, that's the zombie part! Finally finished!
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