Central nervous system

person. “Barbiturates were introduced in the early 1900s (for medical use) as sedatives, hypnotics, anesthetics, and anticonvulsants.” “These drugs cause depression or slowing down of the central nervous system – made of your brain and spinal cord.” (PAMF, 2015). Barbiturate drug acts as a central nervous system affecting the body to make you feel drowsy or temporary unconsciousness and was used as a sleeping pill to treat anxiety or insomnia. These drugs have been divided into four different…

Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, is an autoimmune disease that primarily affects the central nervous system, which consists of the optic nerve, the brain, and the spinal cord. If you break down the term, multiple means many and sclerosis means scar tissue, ergo many scar tissues. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes, “it is uncertain exactly how many people have MS. It is believed there are currently 250,000 to 350,000 people diagnosed with multiple…

I strive to enhance the quality of human life. The human race is plagued with disease, disorders and societal plights that treatment with traditional medicine would cease to assuage the recurrent issues. For example, diabetes is currently one of the top health challenges in the United States. The influx of diabetic patients will not decrease with insulin treatment alone, one must alter their injurious diet. Physicians are expected to treat patients based on symptoms. The analysis is then capped…

autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is where the immune system attacks its own tissue. MS is thought to be responsible for environmental factors and genetics. It affects many body systems such as the immune, skeletal, and digestive systems. It affects the immune system by attacking healthy nerve tissue, the skeletal system is affected from bones being weakened and you have a higher risk of obtaining osteoporosis, and the digestive system is affected from bowel problems, which causes…

The nervous system is broken down into two major systems: Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System. We’ll discuss the Central Nervous System first. The Central Nervous System consists of the brain and the spinal cord. The Cerebral Cortex, which is involved in a variety of higher cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor functions is more developed in humans than any other animal. It is what we see when we picture a human brain, the gray matter with a multitude of folds covering the…

Biomphalaria glabrata is a freshwater snail that originates from Central and South America. The NMRI strain of Biomphalaria glabrata exhibits albinism. The snails’ albinism makes them transparent, which provides the opportunity to observe their circulatory anatomy and physiology. They lay eggs in masses, with 2-30 eggs per mass. The eggs go through several developmental stages. First, they are fertilized. Each egg contains a single embryo, which then begins to grow. Each embryo measures…

paragraph (200 words or less), describe the general structure and function of the nervous system. II. Why is the study of “sleep” important in a psychology course? What benefit does sleep provide to the nervous system and to the body in general? The Nervous system is divided into two main parts: the Central Nervous System (CNS), which consist of the spinal chord and the brain, and the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS), which connects the CNS to the rest of the body. Together, they…

Around 10% have Primary-Progressive MS (PPMS), there is also Secondary-Progressive MS (SPMS), and Progressive-Relapsing MS (PRMS). The least common type is PRMS. In MS your immune system mistakenly attacks the myelinated axons of a nerve fiber in the central nerves system, over time this leads to scarring and hardening of nervous tissue in the brain, spinal cord and eyes. Every hour of every day someone in the United States is diagnosed with MS. Most people do not know they have the diseases;…

In similar ways that neonicotinoid affects the central nervous system of bees, it also does similar harm to a human’s brain (Kuroda, 2012). The pesticide affects the neurons in the brain and slows down a human brains development (Kuroda, 2012). This is most dangerous in children because their brains are still developing (Kuroda, 2012). Through several studies done on rats, neonicotinoids have been known to induce the release of dopamine in the system (Kuroda, 2012). It affects mammals just like…

reading about the mind/body problem in class, I really took to the monism perspectives. I believed that the mind and the nervous system are not different. I just did not understand how the mind could not be connected to the nervous system. I pictured the mind and the body as one sphere and not two totally different spheres, as dualists would argue saying that the mind and the nervous system are different. However, when reading Oliver Sack’s different tales/cases, I realized different instances…