Hypothalamus

thinking. The basal ganglia organize motor behaviors and the occipital lobe receives and sends visual messages. People with Bipolar Disorder often have a hard time reading, writing, and completing motor skills such as gluing or cutting. Last, the hypothalamus can also be affected because there are more neuropeptides in this structure. The size of the cerebellum (responsible for balance and cognitive functions) is also smaller. According to the article, the researchers state, “The main effects of…

Sexual orientation, what is it? Sexual orientation refers to a person’s emotional, romantic, and sexual attraction to individuals of a specific gender (Sexual Orientation Melinda Ratini DO MS). There are three main types of sexual orientation, heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual sexual orientation. Heterosexual means that one is attracted to the opposite sex(Sexual Orientation Melinda Ratini DO MS). Homosexual is when one is attracted to the same sex(Sexual Orientation Melinda Ratini DO MS).…

Summary In the Article, What Can Neuroscience Tell Us about Evil?, the author Richard Brandt discusses how the advances in neuroscience reveal how the brains of psychopathic or sociopathic people are different. For example, some brain-imaging techniques show that not only do some of the psychopathic or sociopathic minds lack emotions such as empathy, but also, some techniques expose that these certain sections of the brain are inactive (Brandt, 2007). Furthermore, fMRI scans illustrate that in…

The brain stem controls the lungs and heart, so it is essential for human survival. The hypothalamus is in charge of temperature regulation, hunger, and thirst. The limbic system is responsible for emotions like fear and desire. It’s also involved in memory and sense of smell. (Brain Geek; parts of the brain) The brain has traces of 10 different…

Character Background: Alex is an 18 year old boy, by the end of his prison sentence. He is 15 years old at the beginning, when he is first caught and put on trial. He is a teen in 1960 England, in what seems to be dingy and dark but full of scholars and terrific writers. Alex has sociopathic tendencies and seems to fantasize about murder and rape. He even likes to spike his milk with hallucinogenic. However, Alex is a big fan of Ludwig Van Beethoven and takes pleasure in listening to Beethoven…

The study conducted by Benson et al., (1992) focused on patients after their whiplash injury and whether their symptoms were aggravated or alleviated over time. The authors hypothesized that they would be successful in finding a connection between cerebral dysfunction and the symptoms of whiplash trauma. Twenty-six patients were accommodated in the study for a span of seven months, specifically from November 1988 to June 1989. Within the case, there were eighteen females between the ages of…

signals and allow hormones to travel from the body to the brain through the bloodstream. One of the major hormones that are shared by the immune system and central nervous is the corticotropin-releasing hormone, CRH. The CRH is produced in the hypothalamus and other brain regions, and is essential in uniting the immune and stress responses of the body. Once the CRH is released into the pituitary gland, it causes the pituitary to release adrenocorticotropin hormone, ACTH into the bloodstream…

For the chapter 7 Nagami readings we covered a case of a slow virus attacking the brain of a patient. The virus involved was measles which the patient acquired while she was in an orphanage in India. The measles developed into a slow viral infection. In this the symptoms are masked as the patient does not appear to be suffering from the disease. The disease is replicating but it does not overwhelm the body. In this case the disease did not begin to manifest until the patient had finished her…

Mice are commonly used as a model for study of stress and anxiety-related disorders in human patients. Laboratory strains of mice, however, are highly inbred, reared in artificial environments, and do not experience the same selective pressures as wild populations, such as the ability to forage and to elude predators. As a result, biomedical experiments conducted on laboratory strains may not be reflective of processes occurring in naturally reared mouse populations, and indeed, may not be…

right away, it sends nerve signals down to the spinal cord to the adrenal glands. This tells them to release the hormone called adrenaline. Once this adrenaline is released, it raises a person's blood pressure and increases your heart rate. The hypothalamus brings signals to the pituitary gland near the bottom of the brain. This tells the brain to release factors that have traveled through the bloodstream and stimulated the adrenal cortex to make a stress hormone called cortisol. Stress has many…