Hypothalamus

Psychological stress is related to the onset of a spectrum of diseases (Cohen, Janicki-Deverts, & Miller, 2007), but the underlying pathways linking stress with disease are not fully understood. Recently there has been increasing interest in exploring low-grade peripheral inflammation as a potential pathway, especially considering that inflammation is reliably induced by psychological stress and directly affects various organ systems in the body (Rohleder, 2014). Previous studies showed that…

Schizophrenia Assignment This essay will be focused on a mental illness known as Schizophrenia, which Jonathon is experiencing in the Case Study. It will outline its symptoms, the brain structures of Schizophrenic patients, how neurochemistry may be a possible causative factor in it and how medication can affect the brain structure and neurochemistry to manage symptoms in diagnoses of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a serious chronic mental disorder which is described chiefly by defalcation in…

In the video Managing Menopause, by Kathryn Macaulay, M.D. she explains what Menopause is, the causes, symptoms as well treatment that is offered to the women who are going through this stage in life. The video opens with explaining that menopause is not a disease, but in fact is a natural process women will experience in their later adulthood. Menopause as defined by Macaulay is “the permanent cessation of menses for 12 consecutive months,” usually this natural process can begin around the age…

Diet Myths And How To Over Come We are so obsessed with losing weight particularly women. There are a plethora of dieting materials from books to pills and more are coming out. Unfortunately, whether it be the lay or medical professionals, there are a number of myths and false science behind dieting. What I want to do is to take a look at a few of these myths and bring them out into the open and at the same time make suggestions on what you can do to be successful with weight loss. Weight…

The phallic stage is the most important when it comes to gender. In the phallic stage, boys develop the Oedipus complex and girls develop the Electra complex. This is where they reject their desires for the parent of the opposite sex and this rejection forces them to identify with the same sex parent. The identification is more powerful for boys because they have castration fear if they don’t reject attraction for mother. They realize that their father stands in the way of the satisfaction of…

Blood Pressure Blood pressure , as a physiological variable of humans, is a hydrostatic pressure, utilized by blood on the walls of blood vessels.(Tortora and Derrickson 2011). It is caused by the contraction of the ventricles and the amount of blood in the whole cardiovascular system. The mean blood pressure (the average pressure in the cardiac cycle) is coordinated in order to provide adequate blood transfer to the tissues.(Saladin,2001). The decrease of blood pressure is followed by an…

Breakthroughs in the way in which we understand the purpose of the amygdala come from identifying peculiarities in behaviour and linking them to areas of the brain where lesions/abnormalities are found. Such is the case when examining Patient S.M. and her diminished exhibition of fear (Adolphs, 1997 & Feinstein et al., 2011). When breaking fear down into it’s simplest physiological properties we can identify it as an increase in heart rate, breathing rate and skin conductance response (Globisch…

Consciousness What do the word consciousness mean? The word consciousness can be defined from the dictionary as subjective experience of perceiving oneself and one’s surroundings. However, psychology do not have a logical definition for the word consciousness. Psychology said that consciousness is occasionally confused with the conscience. Your conscious does not stay in one place but it’s changing every second. This may seem like a chaos but it actually happens very smoothly and easily.…

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…

Eating a proper diet does not only apply to the elderly. The practice of eating healthy throughout the life of the human body begins as a child. The eating habits of children strongly influence adulthood behavior and food choice. Additionally, Wu & Arto stated overweight and obesity in children has negative consequences for self-esteem, social behavior and cognitive development. (2012). Prolonged unhealthy eating continues to effect the body long after childhood. As an adult there are numerous…