Mirror neuron

The spinal cord transmits information between the brain and the rest of the body. Injury to the spinal cord can cause paralysis and the inability to talk and permanent damage to the brain and legs . The spinal cord is made up of disks that protect nerves that run down the back. A spinal cord injury happens when one or more of the disks in the spine are broken or moved so that they are pinching the nerves. After you have surgery to move the bones off the nerve the problem is still not…

My favorite neurotransmitter is serotonin because it involves sleep, mood, anxiety, and appetite. Serotonin is found in the lower part of the brain it can either be excitatory or inhibitory, meaning it can produce excitement or to prohibit you from doing anything. Tryptophan is an amino acid that is found in cheese and nuts and once consumed it is turned into serotonin. Therefore, if one wants to know how to boost your serotonin levels up, one can go outside and be exposed to the sunlight or…

intact noradrenergic system is neuroprotective on nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons, and endogenous NE…

Alzheimer’s Association is nothing but facts. It is nothing to joke about. This ad is purple, the association’s main color. Within the main color, there are three other colors, blue, orange, and yellow. Each color represents something to do with the disease. Purple being the main color represents that they lost someone with Alzheimer’s, blue representing having Alzheimer’s, yellow representing support or care for someone with Alzheimer’s, and orange representing support for the cause and…

Alzheimer s disease is a slowly progressive, degenerative disorder of the brain that gets worse over time, becoming severe enough to interfere with daily tasks (Alzheimer Association). The disease was first described in 1907 by a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer. He found abnormal deposits and tangle bundles of nerves fibers in the brain tissue of a woman that die of an unusual mental illness (Mental Health America). According to the Alzheimer Association, the disease is the sixth leading…

Marfan Syndrome Near the end of the 19th century a french doctor Antoine Marfan was the first doctor to notice the effects of a common disorder (Atinder). Marfan syndrome is a genetically inherited disorder that affects the connective tissues that exist through the body. Specifically, Marfan syndrome alters the FBN1 gene and this affects the production of fibrillin (NHGRI). Fibrillin is a protein that is produced by the body to give strength to connective tissue. Without this protein,…

compartmentalization of signaling. It has been well established that neurons are highly polarized cells characterized by differential localization of proteins and mRNAs in different subcellular components. It is also shown that somatic and synaptic translation has a differential role in initiation and maintenance of…

The transmission of signals across neurons relies on proper release of neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are released from synaptic vesicles after they move down the axon and fuse across the cleft. This vesicle transport depends on the protein kinesin which moves synaptic vesicles down the axon to the synapse for release. The inability to move a vesicle down the axon will be kinesin related since kinesin is linked principally with organelles that travel in the anterograde direction on the…

Muscular dystrophy is a group of noncommunicable diseases that is passed down through heredity lines. Noncommunicable diseases are diseases that developed in humans without other species interference and that cannot be passed between people. Muscular dystrophy can be broken up into nine major forms: Myotonic, Duchenne, Becker, Limb-girdle, Facioscapulohumeral, congenital, Oculopharyngeal, Distal, and Emery-Dreifuss. Muscular dystrophy can appear at any time in one’s life, typically in infancy or…

This research suggested that the system called the glympathic system which was named by (Nedergaard ,M.,& Goldman, S.A.(2016). They proved that beta-amyloid were disposed of during the sleep cycle at a much faster rate than when the body was active during the wake cycle. While the body is in the sleep cycle mode, the movement of fluids from cell to cell in the brain is being controlled and the process of disposing harmful proteins are properly channeling through the synapse however if the…