Autonomic nervous system

GABA is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter. Having a deficiency in GABA can be a big factor contributing to stress and anxiety. It is a chemical that the brain uses to communicate with each other. It is something that slows down the body’s activities. If you have too much of it, then it will lead to being too relaxed. If you have too little of it, then that may cause eating disorders, you can’t relax, and other symptoms. Not only are these some factors of having too little or too much GABA, but…

A system that connects to the organism is the mall. The mall also has 5 parts that makes it up, just like the human body. The subparts of a mall are product, shelf, aisle, store, and those all make up the mall. The first subset of the human body are cells, and the first part to a mall are the products. Cells are similar to the products because they are both the smallest part to the whole, but they are necessary for the whole system to work. Cells in the human body are similar to the products in…

My favorite neurotransmitter is serotonin because it involves sleep, mood, anxiety, and appetite. Serotonin is found in the lower part of the brain it can either be excitatory or inhibitory, meaning it can produce excitement or to prohibit you from doing anything. Tryptophan is an amino acid that is found in cheese and nuts and once consumed it is turned into serotonin. Therefore, if one wants to know how to boost your serotonin levels up, one can go outside and be exposed to the sunlight or…

Introduction Hirschsprung disease is a rare condition in which nerve cells that control contractions are missing from part of the large intestine (colon). The colon absorbs fluids and holds stool so that it can be passed out of the body with movements called contractions. In Hirschsprung disease, the colon has trouble moving stool out through the rectum. This leads to constipation. This condition is most commonly diagnosed at birth or shortly after. What are the causes? The cause of this…

human disease. Observing C. elegans’s neurotransmission and its defects is optimal for understanding the nervous system in other organisms. In this experiment, strains of C. elegans, NM440, NM1233, and RK001 were…

This research suggested that the system called the glympathic system which was named by (Nedergaard ,M.,& Goldman, S.A.(2016). They proved that beta-amyloid were disposed of during the sleep cycle at a much faster rate than when the body was active during the wake cycle. While the body is in the sleep cycle mode, the movement of fluids from cell to cell in the brain is being controlled and the process of disposing harmful proteins are properly channeling through the synapse however if the…

analgesic compounds, cannabis is not physically addictive. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease that turns the immune system against the body’s own brain and spinal cord which results in disconnect throughout the body. MS is one condition that shows promise of the medical implication of cannabis to treat neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, and overall protection of the central nervous system from demyelination of neurons (Baker, D., Jackson, S. J., & Pryce, G., 2007). As stated by Zajicek…

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the most important cause of blindness in industrialized countries. The onset of macular neovascularization in AMD defines an advanced form of the disease characterized by exudative retinal changes due to an abnormal growth of newly formed vessels within the macula. This neovascularization has been divided into three types. Ref gass e ref freunf Type 1 and 2 neovascularization arise from the choroidal circulation and are refered to as choroidal…

growing evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in a whole group of degenerative brain diseases in adults especially the elderly. These diseases include Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, ALS and more disorders of the nervous system. What all these diseases have in common is a slow destruction of brain cells that are specifically sensitive to excitotoxin damage. For example, disorders such as strokes, seizures, migraine headaches, ADD, ADHD, and even AIDS dementia have…

THE SEVENTH CRANIAL NERVE Testing the Function of the Facial Nerve VII Anatomy & Physiology 203 November 15, 2014 Introduction: The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve of the peripheral nervous system that is the chief motor nerve of the face. It exits the brainstem between the pons and the medulla. The primary motor function is the control of the muscles of facial expressions and conveys impulses of taste sensations from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and mouth…