Basal ganglia

People are awake the majority of the day, but a large portion of the day is consumed by sleeping. A good night’s rest is essential because without an appropriate amount of sleep, the hours spent awake can become impacted. Unfortunately, sleep disorders can affect a person’s sleeping abilities. Narcolepsy is one example of a sleep disorder that will affect someone at night and through the day. Narcolepsy can be defined as a neurological disorder where the person experiences daytime sleepiness…

can ultimately lead to life of criminal involvement. So how does maternal smoking relate to later life problems? Well, maternal smoking greatly interferes with the fetal brain development (Beaver, 2005). In more details, smoking impairs the basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, cerebellar cortex and brain deficits that have…

Huntington's disease was first ever discussed in a letter by Charles Oscar Waters in 1842. It was then described by Charles Gorman in 1846. Symptoms of the disease were described by Johan Christian in 1860. In 1872 George Huntington gave the first complete description of the disease based on his research and so the disease was named after him. In 1993 the huntingtin gene was located. Today in the USA there are approximately 30,000 people with Huntington's disease or approximately one in every 30…

Don’t Medicate! Stay Healthy and Great! Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a disease that cannot currently be cured and effects a lot of elementary aged children. That is not to say that stimulants do not aid in some of the treating of the symptoms. Children are very different in their means of reacting to the way they are helped with such symptoms. Some children take it in a way that others do not. That means that proper doctor’s visits are needed to ensure their own ways of adapting…

My Neuropsychological Journal Emotional Functioning As someone who was diagnosed with PTSD three years ago, and has experienced symptoms for the past five years, I have experienced various deficits in emotional functioning. Reflecting back, my emotional functioning has varied over time. For instance, before I started treatment, my emotional functioning was quite poor. I was unable to regulate emotion and was constantly in a flight or flight mode. For example, in high school and my…

Researching the correlation amongst brain anatomy and physiology is a primary pursuit of neuroscience. Simplistic in its composition the brain is astoundingly the most complicated machine known to man. This mass of protein and fat in addition to being responsible for maintaining homeostasis also encompasses attributes that not only make us unique, creative, empathetic, moreover human. Overview of structure & function The brain of humans is primarily composed of two general classes of…

strained or strangled voice which usually low pitched. Articulation problems like range of movement, tongue strength, speech rate and voice onset time for stops are reduced are other features. 3. HYPERKINETIC DYSARTHRIA This is due to lesions in basal ganglia. The symptoms are involuntary movements, harsh and strained voice. Hypernasality is another common feature. 4. HYPOKINETIC…

to help cure strokes. Also, this organ has a helmet like structure called the skull or the cranium, this is the outer layer that protects the organ from any damage or injury. The structure of the brain is made up of cerebellum, cortex, cranium, basal ganglia, brain stem, spinal cord.[www.m.webmd.com] The…

Bulimia nervosa is becoming an all too common eating disorder . It is characterized by the desire to lose weight or to control the individual’s current weight. Those who suffer from this condition use abnormal methods to control or lose weight. The victim may restrict their diet, binge eat and or purge to rid their bodies of the calories. In some individuals, diuretics and laxatives are used in combination with purging while others may exercise in excess. None of these methods is a safe or…

INTRODUCTION The human brain has a remarkable ability to manage the body functions, and process the information that allows us to act on a changeable external environment. To achieve these functions, during evolution, it developed a large computing power, and specialized functions, such as cognition, emotion and consciousness. With approximately 86 billion neurons (Herculano-Houzel, 2009), each neuron has approximately hundreds up to thousands of synapses, it has high structural complexity, and…