Basal ganglia

Education is instrumental in preparing new parents on what to expect during pregnancy and after birth. It is important to teach parents how to care for their infant inside and outside of the womb. The nurse will need to educate parents on lifestyle changes that will promote optimal health in their infant. The nurse will determine education based on the parents’ lifestyles and habits such as cessation of smoking and drinking of alcoholic beverages. The teaching will include what fetal alcohol…

definite medical facts and research which help find the connection between mental disorders or abnormalities and a diagnosable problem in the brain’s chemistry or anatomy such as the connection of Huntington’s disease and the loss of cells in the basal ganglia and cortex. The cognitive approach is based on the belief that an error is made in the cognitive process. Both models of abnormalities are popular with researches and psychologists for their interesting viewpoints. Another difference…

Question 1 Analysis impact on Mercury Element (Summary of information) The purpose of the summary is to study the impact of the Mercury element on the environment, the effect that this contaminant has on humans as well as on animals. Different specialists have conducted many studies cases and tests and each of them come up with a different conclusion of the effects. A few percentage of this experiments give as conclusion no harm from the Mercury (Hg) but the majority showed danger and…

Biological view on ADHD views this disorder by tests ran by imagery research that shows how children with ADHD typically have several brain regions that tend to be smaller. The brain regions and structures include the pre-frontal cortex, striatum, basal ganglia, and cerebellum, and typically the overall brain size is about 5% smaller for children with ADHD. The biological view also focuses on the chemical differences in the brains of people with ADHD. Low levels of dopamine are typically found…

work with Johan von Gudden, assisting Gudden in the creation of “Gudden’s microtome”, a microtome able to house the entire human brain (3, pp 92). This allowed Forel to study the anatomy of the thalamus in-depth, along with its connections to the basal ganglia (3, pp 85). Gudden also taught Forel the degeneration method of studying connections in the brain, a technique pioneered by Augustus Waller in 1850. Waller would cut nerves to various areas and observe decomposition of nerve “tubers” to…

Inside out Developmental Psychology Paper The brain is the most complex part of the human body. The brain can be divided into three basic units, the forebrain, midbrain and the hindbrain. The hindbrain includes the upper part of the spinal cord, the brain stem and the ball of tissue is called the cerebellum. The hindbrain controls the body’s vital functions such as heart rate and respiration. The cerebellum coordinates movement and is involved in learned routine movements. The upmost part of the…

Because implicit memory is unconscious and explicit memory is conscious, there are different mechanisms and anatomical locations involved. Explicit memory is known to be centered in the hippocampus whereas implicit is located in the striatum or basal ganglia (Packard & Knowlton, 2002). The mechanism of storing and losing long-term memories has been extensively studied.…

1. A new mother and father find out that their child is diagnosed with phenylketonuria (PKU). You are asked to counsel them regarding the treatment of their child’s disease. What would you say? She would first need to know that PKU is treatable. Treatment of PKU consists of restriction of phenylalanine from the diet in order to maintain toxic levels and some common foods are milk and eggs (Newborn Screening, 2013). Supplementation with other amino acids is essential. Treatment is lifelong and…

OCD is short for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Shelton 1). People with OCD worry about the little things. They live with endless doubt, trapped by uncontrollable fear. (Kato 1). “This disorder can affect every part of someone’s life emotionally, sexually, professionally and mentally.” (Shelton 1). This causes severe anxiety in those affected. “If it becomes severe enough, it can destroy a person’s capacity to function in the home, at work or at school.” (Hendrix 1). OCD is a worldwide disorder…

Paul Pierre Broca talked about ‘le grand lobe limbique’ in 1878 or the great limbic lobe and used the term “limbic” (from the Latin limbus for border) to the rounded rim of the cortex which also has the cingulate and the parahippocampalgyri. However, its supposed role in emotion was elaborated by the American physician, James Papez in 1937 in the influential paper titled ‘A proposed mechanism of emotion’. This anatomical model is called the Papez circuit.[2] In the year of 1948 scientist…