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Building New Pathways In The Brain It was once commonly accepted that a person’s brain ceased to change after reaching adulthood. Science believed that each part of the brain had its own specific function, and if a certain part was completely damaged, nothing could be done about it. This led to a belief that treatment for many brain conditions was impractical and unjustified, or that even changing our character was unfeasible. But new discoveries in neuroscience have shown that the brain is…

Special needs is a term that is used in clinical diagnosis. It describes individuals who require assistance whether it is medical, mental, or even psychological. Children with special needs are a wonderful part of our world today. Under this umbrella, there are many different types of diseases that come along with the term. The severity of a child’s diagnosis varies. A child with special needs brings a whole new life to those who they are around. After watching the two movies, Lorenzo’s Oil and…

My entire world was turned upside-down my junior year of high school. My father’s health deteriorated to the point where he was forced to make the difficult decision to be admitted into the Veterans’ Home after living with Multiple Sclerosis for thirty-five long years. The two of us didn’t always get along, but at this point I wanted nothing more than to do the impossible and rescue him from the place where I believed he didn’t fit. After all, a man his age should not have to live in a nursing…

virus, once a cold sore is on the lips the virus moves up the axons of the sensory nerves and exist in in the geniculate ganglion which is located in facial canal of the head. In times of stress, the virus reboots and triggers destruction to the myelin. Moreover HSV, other possible etiologies for Bell’s palsy is herpes zoster, Lyme disease, syphilis, Epstein-Barr viral infection, cytomegalovirus, HIV, inflammation alone, upper…

Anxiety? Foods That Can Help Make You Calm Anxiety seems to be a part of life for all of us. Technologies have brought about incredible multitasking and it just never ends. Nevertheless, there are many ways to combat anxiety and food is one of them. The idea is to maintain a healthy blood sugar level by taking in healthy fats and proteins while avoiding foods that are heavily laden with sugar. You’ll want to stay away from foods that contain caffeine and other stimulants. This kind of…

message through the dendrites, which receive messages. Then, the message passes through the cell body, which is the life support of the cell. Next, the axon receives the message and the neural impulse travels down the axons. The axons are covered by the myelin sheath, which help speed up the neural impulse. Finally, they reach the axon terminal. 4b. Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers that sends information to a receiving neuron. It is not a hormone because hormones travel through the…

following onset of the rash and is characterized by recurrence of fever plus seizures and various other neurological abnormalities. The absence of measles virus in the brain, periventricular demyelination, and demonstration of an immune response to a myelin basic protein all suggest post-measles encephalomyelitis occurs due to an autoimmune disorder that is triggered by the measles virus. Other CNS complications of measles can occur months to years after acute infection: measles inclusion body…

Essay Peripheral Nerve Disorder Most of Peripheral Nervous System’s disorders are cause by neuritis which is an inflammation in the branch, Neuralgia a nerve pain, Peripheral neuropathy – a nerve disease or damage, and some are hereditary. Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) has a lot of nerve fibers (branches) that extends from spinal cord to the other part of the body and sends signal to the Central Nervous System (CNS). This includes the “special senses” of touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight and…

“White matter” is also called myelin, coats the nerves, and makes them more communicative(knox). In order for your brain to make decisions tiny specialized cells talk with each other through a series of neurotransmitters like a circuit in a computer, then the whole network puts out…

white matter generally increased as well. Training increases the amount of white matter because it speeds up the signal traveling between neurons in the brain, forcing the brain to create more links between neurons and coat the axon terminals with myelin sheaths. (Li, Wang, Hu, Liang, and Chen,…