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What is the role of hippocampus in making memory sticks?
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Short term memory passes through hippocampus before becoming long term memory.
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Are synapses significant in making memory?
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Short term memory stimulation allows synapse to temporarily strengthened, and long term memory makes the synapses permanently strengthened.
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What is CREB?
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CREB is an important factor that leads to gene activation, which is essential in making long term memroy.
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What is Protein Kinases?
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Protein Kinases is a kind of enzyme and is activated when calcium enters cytoplasm.
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What is Phosphorylation?
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It is the process when Protein Kinases turns on other enzymes in cells.
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During stressed condition, which nerve gives the body the proper reaction?
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Sympathetic Nerves
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Why do the venoms of spiders or snakes make the human body numb when they bite?
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Some venom can cause massive release of neurotransmitters, so there'll be none when the action potential arrives. And some blocks the pre-synaptic terminals or post-synaptic receptors
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What is the effect of drug such as Amphetamine to the human body?
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It inhibits the recycle of certain neurotransmitter, so sometimes there would be a delusion for people taking the drug.
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How is memory protein produced?
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The DNA inside the cell nucleus will becomee a portable form called mRNA which has the encoded instruction that can be translated to a protein.
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How do the memory proteins find the right synapse to connect to?
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They could be broadcast through all the cells and only affect the synapses that are already temporarily strengthened, and to make it become permanently strengthened.
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