Brainstem

Having a loved one pass away can be a traumatic experience, but it is also an opportunity to help someone struggling to hold on to their life. Not only can they continue to live on through someone else, but they could save many lives. Not only could they save many lives, but they could improve up to 50 people’s lives (Consumer Health). One of the newest medical procedures is organ transplants. Rather than making patients wait three years for a transplant, hospitals can utilize this technique.…

Argumentative Paper: Artificial Intelligence in Music There is something about music that seems inherently human. It can make people cry or laugh; jerk their bodies or stop them in awe; and even motivate them or put them to sleep. For the most part, humans have been the only ones to create and use music for recreational use for millennia (Armony and Vuilleumier, 2013). With that being said, it is difficult to imagine music being made by anything else. Truly powerful, moving music, not simply a…

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…

Language Processing Disorder Symptoms Table of Contents What Is Language Processing? 1 When Things Go Wrong 2 Symptoms of Language Processing Disorder 2 Children with Language Processing Disorder 2 Language Processing Disorder in Adults 3 Next Steps 3 What Is Language Processing? Language Processing is a term used to describe the series of tasks our brain carries out when we hear and utilise language. Before we can understand what Language Processing Disorder is, we need a basic awareness of…

The Effects of Mefloquine (an antimalarial pill) on Mice Cognitive and Deficits in Olfactory Bulb. Mena Mekail Introduction to Scientific Research December 8, 2015 Introduction Worldwide air travel has seen a great increase in recent years, in fact it is projected that 1.45 billion people are expected to travel by air in 2016 (Huang and Tatem 2013). The increase of travel rate from malaria free and endemic countries has led to the increase of antimalarial drug resistance consumption…

Dear Roger Goodell and the NFL Players association, How are you going to turn football into a safer sport in the eyes of the players and the eyes of the public? There has been a lot of criticism on the NFL stand with concussions, and it is well deserved. In 2015, there were 199 players that were concussed and had to take participate in the concussion protocol. The number was a huge increase from 2014, where there was 123 players that had a concussion during the 2014 NFL season. I’m writing…

It is an inflammation of one part of the spinal cord sheath that covers the nerve cell and allows the nerve impulses travel from the spinal cord and throughout the body. Another complication is acute brain stem syndrome which is a stroke of the brainstem. Moreover, when all these single episodes in Multiple Sclerosis are combined, they form clinical isolated syndrome (CIS). After CIS patients with MS subsequently develop many incidents of immune system attacks on myelin sheath. At this point,…

Most people have awakened from a euphoric dream and have tried to fall back asleep to continue the dream. Others are awoken as they jerk themselves awake from a nightmare. Patients with PTSD often claim to have relived traumatic events through their dreams. People are constantly reading books and websites that claim to interpret their dreams because it continues to fascinate the reader. The first dream analysts argued that dreams were meant to tell the future. Sigmund Freud disagreed, however,…

Chapter One Universal Serpent Power The Snake has always been my totem. The Snake is my muse in dance and is intimately connected with my own personal and spiritual journey. Serpent energy connects me to the consciousness of the Earth, as well as the none-physical realms. The Snake is an animal, but it is also a symbol, that represents rebirth, healing and the mysterious feminine. By the metaphor of their being, snakes demonstrate the cyclical nature of life. The shedding of the snake’s skin is…

Important Vocabulary (highlighted in the handout): Stimulus, neurons, dendrites, neurotransmitters, axon, myelin, action potential, graded potential, transmembrane potential, neuroglia, cerebrum, spinal cord What is the central nervous system? It’s a system which consists of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord. This system only makes up about 3% of a human’s body weight but serves a vital function, gathering information about and reacting to its environment and any stimulus. Don’t Shoot the…