Brainstem

depending on what area of the body is affected. One is spinal polio, which as you imagine would be that of the spinal cord. The second type of paralytic polio is bulbar polio, which affects the brainstem. The third and final is known as bulbospinal, this means the infection is causing strain on both the brainstem and the spinal cord. The symptoms of paralytic polio first begin to appear flu like, resembling that of the non-paralytic polio. The only difference is within a week the symptoms worsen…

Music and art are tools that can become a huge impact in a disabled child’s life when they are incorporated in the child’s everyday activities during their development as a child. The use of sound or auditory hearings as well as artistic assignments can be very helpful in order for the child to become more connected with the world through interaction with others. These children gain many new skills that assist them in being more united with others around them. Even though the utilization of art…

hearing screening and further my interest in audiology. Firstly, as a Newborn Hearing Screener, I perform newborn hearing test on newborns within the first 24 to 48 hours of birth. The test procedure that is used is an Automated ABR (Auditory Brainstem Response) that measures the brain nerve responds to sound. A click sound…

second kind of memories are called implicit memories. They rely on the basal ganglia and the cerebellum. Last but not least, our short-term working memory relies most heavily on the prefrontal cortex. The brain is divided into three main parts: the brainstem, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum. The cerebrum is then divided into 4 lobes: the frontal, the occipital, the parietal, and the temporal. Each lobe has a couple very important jobs; for example: Frontal Lobe- Personality, behavior,…

and Sub-Clinical. Types of Polio Infections Paralytic - the rarest and most serious type of Polio - which is the highest chance to leading to full or partial paralysis. There are also three different types of Paralytic Polio (Spinal, Bulbar and Brainstem) Non Paralytic - Does not produce paralysis, affects the central nervous system, only mild symptoms. Subclinical - 95% of polio cases are subclinical, patients might not even experience symptoms, does NOT affect nervous…

15. Hypothalamus: The hypothalamus is made up of neural clusters that aide in regulating thirst, hunger, body temperature, and sexual behavior that ultimately help maintain a normal internal state. More specifically, the hypothalamus helps the brain secrete essential hormones that thus, govern one’s physiological functions, such as the ones mentioned above, by working with the pituitary gland as well as other hormone secreting glands. While people are driving, the hypothalamus makes drivers…

Joel Urdiera Biology 2011L Lab Assignment Many people are diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a unpredictable, sometimes disabling disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that blocks the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and the body. Multiple sclerosis is thought to affect more that 2 million people worldwide. For that many people to be affect to this disease you would think that it might be contagious but it is not and it is not directly…

respiration specifically involved in rhythm generation (Pattison, 2008). Additionally, Opioids effect in the brainstem appears to be linked to their ability to interfere with chemoreception in key respiratory areas (medulla and pons) (Pattison, 2008). For example, there is strong evidence that Opioids block the transmissions between the carotid bodies and the solitary nucleus in the brainstem thus causing slow and irregular rhythms leading to both hypoxia (decreased O2 in the blood) and…

Jean-Dominique Bauby also known as Jean-Do was born April 23, 1952 in Paris, France. He attended school in Paris and worked as a journalist for several years. Bauby was a well known French actor, author, and editor of the magazine Elle. He became the editor-in-chief of Elle magazine in 1991. One of his most notable works is The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, which was published in French in 1997. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly is a story about Jean-Dominique Bauby himself who was in his…

In the brain, there are respiratory centers that are the central control of ventilation. They are located within the brainstem and their job is to adjust ventilation when they receive signals of changes in the chemical composition. Changes in the arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide or oxygen and changes in blood pH have a major effect on ventilation. For example, when the arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide and blood pH are altered, it sends a message to the respiratory control…