Nervous laughter

The human brain is unquestionably one of the greatest inventions in our history. No MacBook Pro or 100,000 dollar super customized computer that glows blue and displays holograms of your celebrity crush can stand up to the processing power of the brain. In one second it pumps blood, allows you to breathe, cleanses the blood stream, and destroys any antigens that may be in your bloodstream. It can perform all these tasks in one second without you even telling it to. Also, it allows you to have…

How Music Affects Who You Are When I was twelve years old, my dad bought me my first guitar. I had no idea what I was doing when I began, but within a matter of two weeks, I already had the basics down and could play full songs. To me and my teacher, that was incredible, because it takes most people at least a month. He had even told me that he thinks I was “born to play.” Along with learning guitar, I taught myself how to play piano within a year. I began to realize that no matter what mood I…

How The Natural Human Learning Process Affects Us The Natural Human Learning Process is very important in our everyday lives; everything we learn during our day is affected by the Natural Human Learning Process. According to Rita Smilkstein there are six steps to the Natural Human Learning Process which affect our learned skills. Our learned skills are stored in our neurons which are easiest to remember if you think of it as a tree in our dendrites. What causes our dendrites to grow is the…

Critical period plasticity vs Plasticity throughout life In neuroscience they mention that there is two types of plasticity during our lifetime, critical period plasticity being the first during our postnatal development, then comes plasticity. Critical period plasticity is a particular time frame in which the brain development is sensitive to a certain experience such as vision, and once the critical period ends there is no more plasticity occurring (Kolb and Whishaw, 270). On the contrary…

him from completing his goals, roles, and so on. These two combined along with his lower paying job to a constant high level of stress. This stress would be causing a reaction from the sympathetic nervous system the same as bear attacks or other threats to one’s safety causes. This discharge in the nervous system then leads to the near constant release of hormones such as adrenaline and norepinephrine. These hormones, in turn, raised Jebera’s awareness, anxiety, and blood pressure until finally…

Trauma refers to or is used to describe a significant physical or mental experience that causes some sort of drastic change within someone’s life. Traumatic experiences can have effect all individuals at any age. It can cause temporary, chronic, or life-threatening occurrences. Trauma can lead to other factors that impacts our daily lives and has a massive impact on ones future development more importantly neural development. How can such events determine ones developmental process…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in 1869 discovered Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (The ALS Association, 2015). ALS is more commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease after Lou Gehrig, a great American baseball player whose career unfortunately ended abruptly due to this incurable degenerative disease. ALS is the deterioration of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that leads to muscle weakness. This significant decrease in muscle strength eventually…

mother’s voice through the speaker. We talk for a few minutes, and then eventually we say goodbye. I end the call and place the phone back onto my desk. The body system that enables me to successfully complete this phone call is the nervous system (Gade, 2015a). The nervous system is the association among the billions of neurons in the brain, in the spinal cord, and throughout the body. A neuron is a cell that is specialized to receive and transmit information. The brain and spinal cord…

to their mouth. Human have 5 different types of receptor cells that responds to five primary taste: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami. Human are able to interacts with the world through the peripheral nervous systems which uses nerves to connect the body’s sensory organ to the central nervous system. The receptors of taste are found on specialized taste receptor cells. These cells are on the 2,000 to 10,000 taste buds that a normal human has. Two third of the taste buds are located on the…

Many people overlook the severity of concussions and the potential health effects that it opposes on the brain. Concussions or mild traumatic brain injury is one of the most common neurological disorders as well as the leading cause of long-term disability according to Lisa A. Clarke 2012. A blow to the head causing the brain to move back and forth causes a concussion or mild traumatic brain injury. The brain being the most fragile organ in the body cannot handle this sudden movement and bounces…